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SSI 2004 Conference Program

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6
August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13
Monday, August 2 Where and What is Dark Matter?
     
9:00 - 10:00 AM Nature's Greatest Puzzles C. Quigg
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30 - 11:30 Dark Matter Candidates T. Baltz
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break  
11:45 - 12:45 Evidence for Dark Matter R. Gaitskell
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch  
2:00 - 2:30 Results from CDMS B. Cabrera
2:30 - 3:00 Searching for the Axion L. Rosenberg
3:00 - 3:30 Weak Lensing:  A Probe of Dark Matter and Dark Energy A. Refregier
4:00 - 6:00 Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Welcome Reception  
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Tuesday, August 3 How Massive are Neutrinos?
9:00 - 10:00 AM Theory Basics B. Kayser
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Experimental Neutrino Oscillations G. Gratta
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Neutrinos in Cosmology T. Weiler
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Recent Results from Super K D. Casper
2:45 - 3:15 Recent Results from K2K M. Yokoyama
3:15 - 3:45 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay S. Elliott
4:00 - 6:00 Tours of SLAC  
6:00 PM Dinner  
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Wednesday, August 4 What are the implications of Neutrino Mass?
9:00 - 10:00 AM Theory Basics B. Kayser
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Experimental Neutrino Oscillations G. Gratta
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Neutrinos in Astrophysics G. Fuller
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 Results from SNO D. Waller
3:00 - 3:30 Results from Amanda II S. Barwick
3:30 - 4:00 Neutrino Physics at MiniBoone S. Zeller
4:00 - 6:00 Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Poster Session  
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Thursday, August 5 What are the Origins of Mass?
9:00 - 10:00 AM Higgs Basics M. Peskin
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Precision EW Measurements and the Higgs Mass B. Marciano
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 The Origin of Mass in QCD S. Chivukula
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
 2:00 - 2:30 Top and W Masses at the Tevatron S. Miller
2:30 - 3:00 Higgs Searches at the Tevatron S. Snyder
3:30  - 12:00 AM Lick Observatory Tour  
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Friday, August 6 Why is there a spectrum of Fermion Masses?
9:00 - 10:00 AM Higgs Basics M. Peskin
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Precision EW Measurements and the Higgs Mass B. Marciano
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Neutrino Mass R. Mohapatra
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:30 Properties of the Top Quark C. Clement
2:30 - 3:15 Higgs at LC and LHC A. De Roeck
3:15 - 3:45 Final Results from E158 Y. Kolomensky
3:45 - 4:15 Higgsless Models in Extra Dimensions C. Csaki
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Monday, August 9 Why is Gravity So Weak?
9:00 - 10:00 AM Solving the Hierarchy Problem J. Lykken
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to Extra Dimensions T. Rizzo
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Gravity and Strings S. Giddings
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:30 Tests of Short Distance Gravity S. Smullin
2:30 - 3:15 General Relativity with Double Pulsars M. Kramer
3:15 - 3:45 Searches for Extra Dimensions at the Tevatron G. Landsberg
4:00 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Dinner  
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Tuesday, August 10 Is Nature Supersymmetric?
9:00 - 10:00AM SUSY Basics X. Tata
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 SUSY Basics X. Tata
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 SUSY and Cosmology K. Matchev
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 2:30 Direct Accelerator Searches for SUSY S. Wang
2:30 - 3:00 LHC/LC and SUSY K. Desch
3:00 - 3:30 Searching for SUSY in B Decays Y. Okada
3:30 - 4:00 Final (or Recent) Muon g-2 Results P. Shagin
4:00 - 6:00 SLAC Tour  
6:00 Poster Session  
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Wednesday, August 11 Why is the Universe made of Matter and not Anti-Matter?
9:00 - 10:00 AM How do we know Antimatter is Absent P. Coppi
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Lepto and Baryogenesis M. Trodden
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Can BSM CP Violation Generate the Baryon Asymmetry? C. Wagner
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 CP Violation in B Meson Decays L. Lanceri
3:00 - 3:45 Search for Cosmological Antimatter R. Streitmatter
4:00 - 6:00 Discussion Session  
6:00 Social Hour and Soccer Game  
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Thursday, August 12 Where do Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Come?
9:00 - 10:00 AM Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays T. Stanev
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Cosmic Acceleration Mechanisms R. Blandford
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Understanding the Atmosphere as a Calorimeter for UHE Cosmic Rays G. Schatz
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Results from Auger R. Cintra Shellard
2:45 - 3:15 Results from HESS W. Hofmann
3:15 - 3:45 Radio Detection of UHE Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos P. Gorham
4:00 - 6:00 Discussion Session  
6:00 PM Dinner  
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Friday, August 13 Did the Universe Inflate at Birth?
9:00 - 10:00 AM Inflation Basics M. Kamionkowski
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Inflation Basics M. Kamionkowski
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Inflation and String Theory A. Linde
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Road Map to the Future F. Gilman
2:45 - 3:45 The Last Word on Nature's Greatest Puzzles N. Arkani-Hamed
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