Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics

Opening Symposium

8:00-9:00	Registration	421 OLC		Chair
9:00-9:15	Dean Mark Richards	4th floor OLC	Opening Address
9:15-10:15	Nima Arkani-Hamed	4th floor OLC	The accelerating universe and the LHC	Michael Dine
10:15-10:45	break	4th floor OLC
10:45-11:45	Andy Strominger	4th floor OLC	Central Charge for AdS2 Quantum Gravity	Savas Dimopoulos
11:45-1:45	lunch	4th floor OLC
1:45-2:45	Tsutomu Yanagida	105 North Gate	Dark Energy and Dark Matter	Shamit Kachru
2:45-3:45	Cumrum Vafa	105 North Gate	Geometric Physics	Shamit Kachru
4:30-5:30	Reception	4th floor OLC
5:30-6:00	move to I-House
6:00-7:00	David Gross Public Lecture	International House	The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics (webcast, YouTube, iTunes)	Frances Hellman
7:30-10:00	Banquet	Bancroft Hotel	String quartet from SF Conservatory of Music

8:00-9:00	Registration	421 OLC		Chair
9:00-10:00	Lisa Randall	4th floor OLC	Flavor and CP Solutions via ~GIM in Bulk RS	Eva Silverstein
10:00-11:00	Mark Wise	4th floor OLC	Back To the Future: The Lee Wick Standard Model	Eva Silverstein
11:00-11:30	break	4th floor OLC
11:30-12:30	Mattias Zaldarriaga	4th floor OLC	Cosmology: Present status and future prospects	Markus Luty
12:30-2:00	lunch	4th floor OLC
2:00-3:00	John Schwarz	4th floor OLC	Connecting String Theory to the Real World	Hsin-Chia Cheng
3:00-4:00	Beate Heinemann	4th floor OLC	Exploring the TeV Energy Scale at the LHC: Status and Perspectives	Hsin-Chia Cheng
4:00-4:30	break	4th floor OLC
4:30-5:30	Joe Polchinski	4th floor OLC	The Cosmic String Inverse Problem	Lenny Susskind
5:30	adjourn
7:00	optional dinner	Hong Kong Ocean