Brane WorldCoordinators: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Mirjam Cvetič, George Dvali, Joseph LykkenJanuary 14, 2002 - February 1, 2002Primary consideration deadline for applications has passed (November 30, 2001) You may still send an application for consideration: [ Apply ] |
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The workshop will gather a critical mass of about
30 active scientists in the theoretical particle physics community to
generate and discuss new ideas about the possible particle
physics implications of the brane world and related concepts. Recent years have seen exciting developments both in string theory (M-theory unification, string duality, brane physics, new insights into strongly coupled gauge theories and quantum gravity, etc.) and in other aspects of particle physics and gravity theory(large extra dimensions, warped extra dimensions, localized gravity, brane worlds, novel constructions of four-dimensional string solutions,etc.). String theorists, model builders, phenomenologists, gravity theorists, cosmologists, and experimentalists have engaged in a fruitful dialog, and there is a tremendous intellectual vibrancy in the field as a whole. The workshop will provide a focused setting to stimulate even more active collaboration and exchange of ideas between theory communities, and to attack the fundamental mysteries of particle physics involving naturalness, hierarchies, flavor, unification, and gravity. |
