We hope the Galapagos meeting will be to Particle Physics what the Copenhagen meeting was to Quantum Mechanics. A new paradigm lies beyond the Standard Model. The clues hide in experiment (high pT searches, precision measurements, rare decays, neutrinos, cosmology, astrophysics, cosmic rays) and in a multitude of theoretical ideas. Let us advance the solution of the puzzle!
The success of the Galapagos World Summit on Physics Beyond the Standard Model will be judged by the QUALITY OF ORIGINAL IDEAS coming from this meeting. We hope to learn the latest experimental results and discuss our new creative and original theoretical ideas anchored on phenomenology. I hope we can pin down the viable extensions to the Standard Model and understand their experimental consequences. That is our goal.
This meeting is not a school: it is a workshop. We encourage all attendees, speakers, graduate students and participants, to play an ACTIVE role at the meeting. Please bring your ideas! Speakers are encouraged to contribute a chapter to the book (described below). Graduate students and participants may also contribute to the book (with prior coordination with the editor).
If you wish, you may display a poster. We will have plenty of time for discussions.
Let us all make this the most creative workshop!
Format: Broad scope 45 minute presentations followed by 15 minute discussions.
Participants: 24 invited speakers, 24 graduate students, plus 150 theoretical and experimental particle physicists (by invitation only).
Organizer: Carlos Montufar (carlosm@usfq.edu.ec), Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
Web site: http://www.usfq.edu.ec/ → Galapagos World Summit on Physics Beyond the Standard Model.
Proceedings: To leave a lasting legacy of this meeting Universidad San Francisco de Quito will publish a multi-author book which will also be posted to arXiv. Editor: Bruce Hoeneisen. We will also post all presentations (in pdf format) on http://www.usfq.edu.ec. 2
Poster session: There will be a poster session: please feel free to contribute.
Galapagos: The Galapagos Islands were declared Natural World Heritage by UNESCO in 1978. The GAIAS Institute is on the beach within walking distance from where Charles Darwin first landed. The animals and plants of the islands inspired his theory of evolution. These are remote islands. The summit will fill all hotels on San Cristobal island so we must book reservations well in advance. Due to the perfect climate of Galapagos the hotels have no heating, air conditioning or hot water.
1 USFQ participates in the DØ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
2 Please send your chapter of the book in final form (it will not be edited), in latex format with figures in eps format to bruce1@fnal.gov as a tar attachment, by June 19, 2006. The format will be documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]book. By submitting a chapter, authors are granting permission to Universidad San Francisco de Quito to include it in the book and publish it. B.H.
Organizers
Santiago Gangotena (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
Carlos Montúfar (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
Bruce Hoeneisen (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
Agenda
| Session | Theory/experiment | Experiment/theory |
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Thursday, June 22: |
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| Rare decays/precision measurements Baryon asymmetry/CP-Violation Higgs and heavy quarks Neutrinos |
Andrzej Buras Roberto Peccei Chris Quigg Hisakazu Minakata |
Ulrich Nierste Patricia Burchat Guido Altarelli Gabriela Barenboim |
Friday, June 23: |
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| Tevatron/Large Hadron Collider Cosmology/Dark Matter Cosmic rays/Neutrino experiments Grand Unified Theories |
Young-Kee Kim Rocky Kolb Alvaro De Rujula Stuart Raby |
Pierre Petroff Gilles Gerbier Stan Wojcicki Riccardo Barbieri |
Saturday, June 24: |
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| Tour | ||
Sunday, June 25: |
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| Supersymmetry Gravity, extra-D/WMAP My prejudices My prejudices/Future accelerators |
Gordon Kane Lisa Randall Jonathan Ellis Frank Wilc |
Jonathan Feng Charles Bennett Bruce Hoeneisen Leon Lederman |
Chair Persons
Session |
Chair person |
| Thursday, June 22: | |
| Rare decays/precision measurements Baryon asymmetry/CP-Violation Higgs and heavy quarks Neutrinos |
Giulia Ricciardi Carlos Marin John Conway Serguey Petcov |
| Friday, June 23: | |
| Tevatron/Large Hadron Collider Cosmology/Dark Matter Cosmic rays/Neutrino experiments Grand Unified Theories |
Boaz Klima
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| Sunday, June 25: | |
| Supersymmetry Gravity, Branes, extra-D My prejudices My prejudices/Future accelerators |
Paul H. Frampton John Womersley |
Speakers and Talks
18 May 2006
- Andrzej Buras, “Searching for New Physics with Rare Decays and CP Violation.”
- Ulrich Nierste, “Constraints from flavor physics on the MSSM.”
- Roberto Pecci, “Matter-antimatter asymmetry and an arrow for time.”
- Patricia Burchat, “CP violation in the quark sector: what have we learned?”
- Christopher Quigg, “A Journey in Distant Countries: to the Electroweak Scale and Beyond.”
- Guido Altarelli, “Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model and Beyond.”
- Hisakasu Minakata,
- Gabriela Baremboim, “Neutrinos matter.”
- Young-Kee Kim,
- Pierre Petroff, “LHC: Beyond the Standard Model.”
- Rocky Kolb, “Beyond the Standard Model of Cosmology.”
- Gilles Gerbier, “Dark Matter.”
- Alvaro De Rújula, “A theory of Cosmic Rays.”
- Stan Wojcicki, “Neutrino oscillation experiments - present and future.”
- Stuart Raby, “Grand Unified Theories in 4, 5 and 10 dimensions.”
- Riccardo Barbieri, “Electroweak symmetry breaking at the Large Hadron Collider.”
- Paul H. Frampton, “Beyond the Standard Model of Phenomenology.”
- Gordon Kane, “Supersymmetry, LHC, and String Phenomenology.”
- John Womersley, “The top quark - a window on new physics?”
- Lisa Randall,
- Charles Bennett, “WMAP cosmology.”
- Jonathan Ellis, “Search for Supersymmetry.”
- Bruce Hoeneisen, “New limits from the D0 experiment, and a few crazy ideas.”
- Frank Wilczek, “Physics and Cosmology of Axions and other Ultralight Fields.”
- Leon Lederman, “The (not too) far out possibilities of future accelerators.”
Fee, Costs and Registration
Item |
USD$ |
| Pre-Registration Fee (by Feb 28,2006) Includes coffee breaks as well as welcome and closure cocktails (June 22 and June 25) and unlimited Internet Access. Registration Fee (after Feb 28,2006) $625 |
$550 |
| Galapagos Park Fee Galapagos National Park Fee for all International Visitors used for the conservation of the Islands |
$100 |
| 2 Nights of Hotel Accommodations in Quito (includes breakfast) In Quito at Hotel Colon (five star) or similar. Includes airport transfers.The hotel accommodations in Quito are based on double occupancy, so if you are accompanied by 1 person, then there is no additional charge.We have a special arrangement with the hotel, so if you need additional room accommodations in Quito please let us know how many. |
$200 |
| 5 nights of Hotel Accommodations in Galapagos Galapagos offers basic but clean and comfortable accommodations. This price is for the first person, additional guests in the same room pay $150. |
$300 |
| Meals in Galapagos Includes all meals in Galapagos from June 22-25 (Sunday: lunch only) |
$150 |
| Local flight (Quito–Galapagos–Quito) Round trip Charter flight June 21st Departure UIO-San Cristobal June 26th Return San Cristobal-UIO |
$390 |
| One Day Tour in San Cristobal Island Morning boat tour to Leon Dormido (Kicker Rock, snorkeling) and afternoon trip to El Junco and the Galapagos Tortoise Reserve |
$100 |
| Total cost excluding international travel | $1790 |
* (subject to change at any time without notice)
For additional information contact: monam@usfq.edu.ec