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SUNDAY, August 1
11:00am Brunch
  Session Chair: G. Kane
1:00pm Openining Remarks Prof. Paul Courant, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan
1:15pm I. Antoniadis "Supersymmetry Breaking in D-brane Models"
1:50pm P. Frampton "AdS/CFT Correspondence and Beyond Standard Model"
3:30pm Coffee Break  
  Session Chair: G. Shiu
3:45pm P. Nath "A Stueckelberg extension of the electroweak sector as an alternative to exension with Higgs"
4:20pm B. Ovrut “The Spectra of Heterotic Vacua”
4:55pm G. Aldazabel "Particle Models from Orientifolds at Gepner-Orbifold points"
5:30pm Adjourn
 
MONDAY, August 2
  Session Chair:
 R. Brustein
9:00am G. Shiu "Model Building and Phenomenology of Flux-Induced SUSY Breaking"
9:35am J.E. Kim "Trinification from orbifolded superstring"
10:10am Coffee Break  
  Session Chair S. Stieberger
10:45am S. Thomas “Landscape Naturalness”
11:20am R. Mohapatra "Neutrino Mass and Supersymmetric SO(10)”
11:55am S. Trivedi “Flux Compactifications and Accelerating Cosmologies”
12:30pm Lunch
  Session Chair: B. Körs
2:15pm A. Krause "De Sitter Vacua in the M-Theory Landscape"
2:50pm P. Langacker "Neutrino masses in Type I and II seesaw models respecting heterotic and intersecting brane string constraints"
3:25pm M.Perry “A Description of Hawking’s Recent Arguments about Information Loss”
4:00pm Coffee Break  
  Session Chair: P. Ko
4:30pm R. Myers “Cosmic Superstrings II”
5:05pm S. Stieberger "Scattering of gauge, matter, and moduli fields from intersecting branes"
5:40pm C. Burgess “Rosebud: More Obsessing About SLEDs”
6:15pm Adjourn
6:15pm Wine and cheese reception (Lower Atrium of the Chemistry Building)
 
TUESDAY, August 3
  Session Chair: A. Krause
9:00am A. Faraggi "Self-duality and vacuum selection"
9:35am M. Cvetic “Supersymmetric Intersecting D6-branes, Fluxes and Particle Physics”
10:10am Coffee Break  
  Session Chair:
 J. Giedt
10:45am K. Dienes "A String Theorist Tampers with the Laws of Thermodynamics"
11:20am B. Körs On the Moduli Dependence of Non-perturbative Superpotentials in Brane-Inflation”
11:55am E. Silverstein "The Real World as a Hologram: DBI in the Sky and dS/dS"
12:30pm Lunch
  Session Chair: T.Li
2:15pm H.-P. Nilles
 "Five golden rules for string phenomenology"
2:50pm M. Dine "Supersymmetry from the Landscape"
3:25pm Coffee Break
4:00pm Begin session of 20-minute parallel talks (see parallel talk schedule)
 
WEDNESDAY, August 4
  Session Chair: L. Wang
9:00am M. Douglas “Statistical Analysis of Supersymmetry Breaking in Flux Vacua” (by video hookup)
9:35am S. Abel “Interactions and Flavour on Intersecting Branes”
10:10am Coffee Break  
  Session Chair: S. King
10:45am R. Brustein "Moduli Stabilization in Flux Compactifications”
11:20am R. Kallosh “D3/D7 Brane Cosmology”
11:55pm M. Quiros “Higgs-gauge Unification Without Tadpoles”
12:30pm Lunch  
  Session Chair: K. Dienes
2:15pm S. King “Phenomenology of Twisted Moduli”
2:50pm F. Larsen “Holography, Diffeomorphisms, and Scaling Violations in the CMB”

3:25pm C. Savoy "Lepton EDMs"
4:00pm Coffee Break  
  Session Chair K.Tobe
4:30pm J. Qian "Searches for New Physics at Dzero"
5:05pm R. Culbertson "Searches at CDF"
5:40pm E. Rabinovici "On time dependent backgrounds in String Theory"
6:15pm Adjourn
7:00pm Barbecue (inner court yard between Randall lab and the Dennison Buildings)
 
 
THURSDAY, August 5
  Session Chair: F. Larsen
9:00am S. Giddings “Deforming Warped Compactifications”
9:35am A. Linde “String Inflation Update”
10:10am Coffee Break  
  Session Chair: S. Abel
10:45am T. Gherghetta “Natural High-scale Supersymmetry Breaking”
11:20am J. Liu “Black Hole Mass in Anti-de Sitter Space”
11:55am S. Raby “Constructing 5D Orbifold GUTs from Heterotic Strings”
12:30pm Lunch  
  Session Chair: A. Karch
2:15pm M. Shifman “From Strings to One-flavor QCD”
2:50pm L. Wang “Electroweak symmetry Breaking and Flux induced supersymmetry breaking”
3:25pm Coffee Break
4:00pm Begin session of 20-minute parallel talks (see parallel talk schedule)
6:00pm Wine and cheese reception (Lower Atrium of the Chemistry Building)
 
 
FRIDAY, August 6
Session Chair: A. Faraggi
9:00am K. Choi “Radion as a Flavon and SUSY Flavor Violation”
9:35am M.K. Gaillard “Aspects of Heterotic String Phenomenology”
10:10am Coffee Break  
  Session Chair: T. Gherghetta
10:45am B. Nelson "What Does LHC Data have to do with String Phenomenology?"
11:20am M. Perry “Symmetry Breaking and Tunneling in de Sitter Space, and Implications for the Cosological Constant”
11:55am A. Karch “Autolocalization and Holography in dS Space”
12:30pm Lunch  
Session Chair: J. Wells
2:15pm G. Hoenecker
 "The standard model on fractional intersecting branes"
2:50pm H. Tye “How our Universe Originated? And Why?"
3:25pm Conference concludes
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