Memorial Conference in Honor of Julius Wess

München, November 6 and 7, 2008, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)

Location: Hörsaal, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Föhringer Ring 6.

Thursday, November 6 Friday,
November 7
9:30
Opening

9.45 Hans Peter Nilles
From string theory to the supersymmetric standard model
9:30 Wim de Boer
Supersymmetry in Particle Physics and Cosmology
10:30 Coffee break 10:15      Coffee break
11:00 Zvi Bern
Superfiniteness of N=8 supergravity at three loops and beyond
10:45 Nathan Seiberg
Topics in Gauge Mediation
11:45 Paolo Aschieri
Noncommutative Spacetime Geometries
11:30 Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
Boundary conditions in rigid and local supersymmetry
12:30 Lunch in the canteen of the institute 12:15 Lunch in the canteen of the institute
14:30 Juerg Gasser
Effective Quantum Field Theories at NA48/2
14:00 Pierre Fayet
The supersymmetric standard model
15:15 Luis Alvarez-Gaumé
Scaling phenomena in gravity and Yang-Mills theories
14:45 Burt Ovrut
Ricci-Flat Metrics and Laplacians on Calabi-Yau Threefolds
16:00 Coffee break 15:30 Coffee break
16:30 Misha Shifman
Heterotic CP(N) models in two dimensions
16:00 Jonathan Bagger
Three-Algebra Theories for Supersymmetric M2 Branes
17:15 Slava Mukhanov
Cosmic Inflation
16:45 Bruno Zumino
Supersymmetry and Superstring Phenomenology
19:00 Conference Dinner at Restaurant Aumeister


Time for talks: 35 minutes.