CASE-COLUMBIA-NYU-PENN Meeting, Spring 2012



April 25, 2012: at CCPP, 5th floor Lounge


Schedule


10:30 am - 11 am: WELCOME COFFEE AND BAGELS

11 am - 11:20 am: Austin Joyce (UPenn) Scale invariance from conformal invariance
11:20 am - 11:40 am: Garrett Goon (UPenn) Galileons as Wess-Zumino Terms
11:40 am - 12 noon: Yi-Zen Chu (UPenn) Light Does Not Always Travel On The Light Cone
12 noon - 12:20 pm: Bhuvnesh Jain (UPenn) Tests of gravity with pulsating stars

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: LUNCH

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Eduardo Ponton (Columbia) Lepto-quarks as echoes of an R-symmetry
3:15 pm - 3:35 pm: David Jacobs (Case) Brane Localization and Stabilization via the Casimir Effect
3:35 pm - 3:55 pm: Matteo Fasiello (Case) Higuchi versus Vainshtein
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm: Andrew Tolley (Case) A first class formulation of Massive Gravity

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm: COFFEE BREAK

4:45 pm - 5:05 pm: Guido D'Amico (NYU) Dilaton Massive Gravity
5:05 pm - 5:25 pm: Rachel Rosen (Columbia) Interacting Spin-2 Fields

Discussions, Coffee and departure