Searching for the Unexpected at LHC and the Status of Our Knowledge

Contents:

• Hot Theoretical Topics:

  • Testing Strings at the LHC (I Antoniadis)
  • Entropy Bounds and the Holographic Principle (R Bousso)
  • Quantum Gravity Needs Supersymmetry (S Ferrara and A Marani)
  • Composite Weak Bosons, Leptons and Quarks (H Fritzsch)
  • The Negative β Function: From the Standard Model to Quantum Gravity (G 't Hooft)
  • Effective Actions for High Energy Processes in QCD and in Quantum Gravity (L N Lipatov)
  • Infrared Instability in QCD (P Minkowsky)
  • Notes on Strings and Higher Spins (A Sagnotti)

• Seminars on Specialized Topics:

  • The Mystery of Neutrino Mixings (G Altarelli)
  • The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Experiment, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Erice School (S C C Ting)
  • The QGCW Project — Technological Challenges to Study the New World (H Wenninger)

• Highlights from Laboratories:

  • Start Up and First LHC Results (S Bertolucci)
  • From the Discovery of Top to the Higgs Boson Search at Fermilab (D Denisov)
  • Highlights from ALICE (P Giubellino)
  • Highlights from BNL-RHIC (M J Tannenbaum)
  • Highlights from GRAN SASSO (L Votano)

• Special Sessions for New Talents:

  • On Combinatorial Expansion of the Conformal Blocks Arising from AGT Conjecture (V A Alba)
  • Decaying Gravitino Dark Matter (N E Bomark)
  • Cosmological Constant and Casimir Effect (P Burda)
  • Higher Spins in D=2+1 (A Campoleoni)
  • Gluons for (Almost) Nothing, Gravitons for Free (J J M Carrasco)
  • CP Violation in Charm: A New Method (G Inguglia)
  • Mechanical Resonances in the Read-Out Chambers of the ALICE TPC (M Mager)
  • First Observation of Positronium Hyperfine Splitting Transition — Particle Physics at a Frequency Frontier (A Miyazaki)
  • New Results on Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS (M Orchaniam)
  • Measuring sin22θ13 with the Daya Bay Nuclear Reactors (L Wen)

Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in the field of subnuclear physics.