Agenda

Day 1: Sunday, August 3rd


Morning Session I

Chair: Ken Peach (Oxford)


8:15-8:30 Welcome to ICHEP08

8:35-9:10 LHC Machine Startup
Lyn Evans (CERN)

9:15-9:45 ATLAS Detector Status & Physics Startup Plans
Martine Bosman (IFAE, Barcelona)

Coffee Break (30 minutes)

Morning Session II

Chair: Albrecht Wagner (DESY)


10:15-10:45
CMS Detector Status & Physics Startup Plans
Austin Ball (CERN)

10:50-11:15 Perturbative QCD Theory
Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford)

11:20-11:45 QCD Experiment I
Cristinel Diaconu (CPPM, H1)

11:50-12:15 QCD Experiment II
Claudia Glasman (Madrid, Zeus)


Lunch (75 minutes)


Afternoon Session I

Chair: Pier-Maria Oddonne (FNAL)


13:30-13:55 Electroweak Physics (Includes W Mass & Width, WW, WZ, ZZ)
Marco Verzocchi (FNAL, D0)

14:00:14:25 Top Physics (Includes Single Top & Top Mass)
Erich Varnes (Arizona, D0)

14:30-14:55 Theoretical Modeling of SM Processes in Hadronic Collisions
Fabio Maltoni (Louvain Univ.)

Coffee Break (30 minutes)

Afternoon Session II

Chair: Patty McBride (FNAL)


15:30-15:55
Higgs Searches
Matthew Herndon (Wisconsin, CDF)

16:00-16:25 SUSY and SUSY - Higgs Theory
Carlos Wagner (ANL)

16:30-16:55 Beyond SM Searches
Jean-Francois Grivaz (LAL Orsay, D0)

17:00-17:25 Alternative EWSB and BSM Theory
Gustavo Burdman (Sao Paolo Univ.)

17:30-18:30 Free Time

Banquet at Philadelphia Museum of Art (drinks start at 18:30)


Day 2: Monday, August 4th


Morning Session I

Chair: Vera Luth (SLAC)


8:30-9:15
Experimental Overview of Neutrino Properties
Chris Walter (Duke)

9:20-9:50 Theoretical Overview of Neutrino Properties
Zhi-zhong Xing (IHEP)

Coffee Break (25 minutes)

Morning Session II

Chair: Jonathan Dorfan (SLAC)


10:15-10:40 CKM Angles
Yury Kolomensky (UC Berkeley)

10:45-11:10 CKM sides
Francesca Di Lodovico (Queen Mary, London, BaBar)

11:15-11:40 Rare Decays & New Physics
Paoti Chang (NTU, Taiwan, Belle)

11:45-12:10 Properties of Heavy B hadrons
Manfred Paulini (CMU, CDF)

12:15-12:30 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Kai-Feng Chen (NTU, Taipei)


Lunch (75 minutes)


Afternoon Session I

Chair: George Hou (NTU)


13:45-14:10 Exotic c-cbar Resonances
Galina Pakhlova (ITEP, Belle)

14:15-14:40 Light Hadron Spectroscopy & Charmonium
Fred Harris (Univ. Hawaii, BES)

14:45-15:25 Heavy Flavor Theory
Tobias Hurth (CERN, SLAC)

15:30-15:55 Decays of Open Charm
David Asner (Carleton, CLEO-c)

Coffee Break (25 minutes)

Afternoon Session II

Chair: Bikash Sinha (VECC)


16:25-16:50 Lattice QCD
Tetsuya Onogi (Yukawa Inst. Kyoto Univ.)

16:55-17:30 Review of Heavy Ion Experiment
Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook)

17:35-18:00 Theoretical Review of Heavy Ion Physics
Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)

Public Lecture: Ed Witten (IAS) & Jim Virdee (Imperial) 8pm Irvine Aud.

Day 3: Tuesday, August 5th


Morning Session I

Chair: Juan Maldacena (IAS)


8:30-9:05 Recent Progress in Formal Theory
Joseph Polchinski (KITP, UCSB)

9:10-9:40 Early Universe (t < 1 microsec)
Justin Khoury (Perimeter Inst.)

9:45-10:15 Late Universe (t > 1 microsec)
Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

Coffee Break (30 minutes)

Morning Session II

Chair: Sakua Yamada (KEK)


10:45-11:15 Search for Dark Matter
Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

11:20-11:45 Status of ILC Accelerator and Detectors
Nobu Toge (KEK)

11:50-12:15 Latest Developments in Technologies for Detectors
Steinar Stapnes (CERN)

12:20-12:35 ICFA Summary
Albrecht Wagner (DESY)

12:40-12:55 Report from C11
Gregor Herten (Freiburg)


Lunch (65 minutes)


Afternoon Session

Chair: Rolf Heuer (DESY&Hamburg)


14:00-14:15
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics
Yasaman Farzan (IPM, Tehran)

14:20-15:00 Review of Results from Pierre Auger Observatory, High-energy Gamma-ray Astronomy and Neutrino Astronomy
Angela Olinto (Univ. Chicago)

15:05-15:25 Observation of the bottomonium ground state, eta-b, at BaBar
Philippe Grenier (SLAC)

15:30-16:00 Concluding Inspirational Talk Cancelled
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton)