When: 22 (Thursday), 23, 24 and 25, June 2006. Unless you are taking a tour, please arrive at Quito by June 20. The flight to Galapagos is on the 21st. The flight from Galapagos to Quito is on June 26 PM.
Where: Galapagos Institute for the Arts and Sciences (GAIAS), Univer- sidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), 1 San Cristobal island, Galapagos.
Purpose: 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
Thursday, June 22:
Rare decays/precision measurements Andrzej Buras Ulrich Nierste
Baryon asymmetry/CP-Violation Roberto Peccei Patricia Burchat
Higgs and heavy quarks Chris Quigg Guido Altarelli
Neutrinos Hisakazu Minakata Gabriela Barenboim
Friday, June 23:
Tevatron/Large Hadron Collider Young-Kee Kim Pierre Petroff
Cosmology/Dark Matter Rocky Kolb Gilles Gerbier
Cosmic rays/Neutrino experiments Alvaro De Rujula Stan Wojcicki
Grand Unified Theories Stuart Raby Riccardo Barbieri
Saturday, June 24:
Tour
Sunday, June 25:
Supersymmetry Gordon Kane Jonathan Feng
Gravity, extra-D/WMAP Lisa Randall Charles Bennett
My prejudices Jonathan Ellis Bruce Hoeneisen
My prejudices/Future accelerators Frank Wilczek Leon Lederman
Chair Persons
Session Chair person
Thursday, June 22:
Rare decays/precision measurements Giulia Ricciardi
Baryon asymmetry/CP-Violation Carlos Marin
Higgs and heavy quarks John Conway
Neutrinos Serguey Petcov
Friday, June 23:
Tevatron/Large Hadron Collider Boaz Klima
Cosmology/Dark Matter
Cosmic rays/Neutrino experiments
Grand Unified Theories Joanne L. Hewett
Sunday, June 25:
Supersymmetry
Gravity, Branes, extra-D Paul H. Frampton
My prejudices
My prejudices/Future accelerators John Womersley
Speakers and talks
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- 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) $550
and unlimited Internet Access.
Registration Fee (after Feb 28,2006) $625
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 $200
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.
5 nights of Hotel Accommodations in Galapagos
Galapagos offers basic but clean and comfortable accommodations. This price is for the first $300
person, additional guests in the same room pay $150.
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 $390
June 26th Return San Cristobal-UIO
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