SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The program of parallel sessions has been announced [see below]

Opening speech will be made by Chair E. Brezin

Presentation of the FFP series: General purpose, History and Philosophy, by B. Sidharth.

Plenary Program
Timeframe
Tuesday July 06
Wednesday, July 7
Thursday, July 8
Friday, July 9
Session Chair
09h - 09h45
Registration
J.L.Puget
Inflation and Dark Energy
R.Durrer

Parallel Session

09h45 - 10h30
Welcome Civil Authority
Sc.Opening Talk E.Brézin
Int.Opening Chair International B.G.Sidharth

Clocks and Fundamental Tests
C.Salomon
From Laser Cooled Atoms to
Quantum Simulators
J.Dalibard
Quantum Information
with Photons and Atoms
P.Grangier

Coffee Break

10h30 - 11h
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Session
11h - 11h45
The Big Bang Befor and After :
Some New Developments
R.Penrose

Signatures of String Unification
C.Bachas
Inflationary Cosmology on Trial
P.Steinhardt
J.Ellis
11h45 - 12h30
The Uses of Infinity :
Emergent Phenomena in Physics
J.Butterfield

Finite and infinite dimensional representations of Hamiltonian structures
F.Hélein
Quantum Information Processing
with Superconducting Circuits
M.Devoret
Where is Knowledge ?
J.Stachel
Lunch
12h30 - 14h
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Session
14h - 14h45
The Dark Side of Galaxy Formation
J.Silk
Poster
Poster
A.Zeilinger
14h45 - 15h30
The Dark Matter Problem
80 years after Zwicky
P.Salati
Parallel Session
Parallel Session

The emergence of Quantum Mechanics
G. 't Hooft
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
Coffee Break
15h30 - 16h
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
End of the Conference : 15h30
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Session
16h - 16h45

The LHC at CERN:
start-up,very first results and prospects
D.Fournier

Parallel Session
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
Parallel Session
16h45 - 17h30
P.Fayet
Parallel Session

Parallel Session

Parallel Session
Adjourn : 17h10
Adjourn : 17h30
Adjourn : 17h30
 
18 h
Welcome Cocktail
Visit to Orsay Museum
and
Official Dinner

Invited speakers

General overview communications :

  1. Big Bang Cosmology / Dark Energy

    • Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University, USA) Inflationary Cosmology on Trial
    • Jean-Loup Puget (IAS, France)
    • Ruth Durrer (Geneve university, Switzerland) Inflation and Dark Energy

  2. Dark Matter/Astroparticles

    • Pierre Fayet (LPT, ENS, France)
    • Joseph Silk (Oxford, England) The Dark Side of Galaxy Formation
    • Pierre Salati (LAPTH, France) The Dark Matter Problem 80 years after Zwicky

  3. Particle physics and Fundamental Interactions

    • Daniel Fournier (LHC, France) The LHC at CERN: start-up,very first results and prospects
    • Costas Bachas (LPT, ENS, France) Signatures of String Unification
    • John Ellis (CERN, Switzerland)
    • Christophe Salomon (LKB, ENS, France) Clocks and Fundamental Tests

  4. From Entanglement to Quantum Information and Quantum Gas

    • Philippe Grangier (Institut Optique Palaiseau, France) Quantum Information with Photons and atoms
    • Michel Devoret (Yale University, USA & College de France, France) Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits
    • Jean Dalibard (LKB, ENS, France) From laser cooled atom to Quantum Simulators

  5. Epistemology, History of Physics

    • Jeremy N. Butterfield (Cambridge, England) The Uses of Infinity : Emergent Phenomena in Physics
    • Frederic Helein (Paris Diderot University, France) Finite and infinite dimensional representations of Hamiltonian structures
    • John Stachel (Boston University, USA) Where is Knowledge

 

Parallel Program

 Wednesday, July 7

Timeframe
Big Bang Cosmology / Dark Energy
Particle physics and Fundamental Interactions
Epistemology, History of Physics
Session
14h45 - 15h05
Loop Quantum Gravity and the early universe
Barrau Aurelien

 
Uncertainty relation on a Planckian lattice and applications to micro black holes
Scardigli Fabio

In practice, is quantum mechanics a unified theory? On the impact of multiple interpretations on research
Boyer Thomas
15h05 - 15h25
Planck scale oscillations in Dark Energy
B. G. Sidharth
Gauge structure in particle mixing
Blasone Massim
Causality and Quantum Theory
Kauark Leite Patricia
15h25 - 15h45
Recent Observations on CMB at high multipoles and AP3M computations at such scales
Marius Josep Fullana i Alfonso
Towards canonical quantum gravity for 3+1 geometries admitting maximally symmetric two-dimensional surfaces
Melas Evangelos
Free fall and self-force : an historical perspective
Spallicci Alessandro

Coffee Break

15h30 - 16 h
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Session
16h - 16h20
Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Hubble Ultra Deep Field Data Imply a New Cosmological Model
Alexander Franklin Mayer
The heat kernel for a scalar field in planar curved space Department of Mathematics
Kamath Gopinath
The Diminishing Experimental Challenge to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Perovic Slobodan
16h20 - 16h40
The Big Bang and the Red Shift
Richard Kriske
Alternative Description of Matter
Keller Jaime
Is presentism compatible with Relativity ?
Besnard Fabien
16h40 - 17h
Is space-time really curved ? An experimental test
Consoli Maurizio
Lessons from world crystal on role of torsion in gravitational physics
Kleinert Hagen
Evolution of the concept of dimension and potential impact in physics
Journeau Philippe
17h - 17h20
Relational Triangleland
Edward Anderson
Universe in Brane World Scenario
 Saaidi Khaled
Learning to Cooperate for Progress in Physics
Dickau Jonathan
17h20- 17h40 
Constraining Fundamental Physics with present and future CMB Experiments
Galli Silvia
On rotating wave approximation, irreversible time evolution and entropy
Vitiello Giuseppe
  
17h40-18h
Infrared divergence of pure Einstein gravity contributions to cosmological density power spectrum
Jai-chan Hwang
Can Negative-Energy States Remove the Infinities of QFT ?
Payandeh Farrin
  

     

    Thursday, July 8
    Timeframe
    Big Bang Cosmology / Dark Energy
    From Entanglement to Quantum Information and Quantum Gas
    Epistemology, History of Physics
    Session
    14h45 - 15h05
    Cosmological Big Bounce Transition
    Piechocki Wlodzimierz

     
    How to detect the Gravity included Phase Shift in Labs ?
    He Jian-E
    Some Mathematics for Biological Theories : Randomness and Organisations, as Anti-Entropy in Darwin's Evolution
    Longo Giuseppe
    15h05 - 15h25
    Running Cosmological Constant and Running Newton Constant in Modified Gravity Theories
    Garattini Remo
    Spineur sans extension spatiale et faisabilité de l'ordinateur quantique
    Michel Gondran
    The difficult appropriation of quantum ideas outside the frontiers of fundamental physics
    Picholle Eric

    Coffee Break

    15h25 - 15h40
    Coffee Break
    Coffee Break
    Coffee Break
    Session
    15h40 - 16h
    Atoms of Dark matter from new stable quarks and leptons
    Khlopov Maxim
    Effects of magnetic field and confining potential on spontaneous coherence of exciton polaritons in coupled quantum wells and dots embedded in optical microcavity
    Kaputkina Natalia
    From Galilean relativity to quantum gravity : three issues, c, h, G, concerning time, matter and inertia
    Provost Jean-Pierre
    16h - 16h20
    Stochastic growth of quantum fluctuations during inflation
    Marozzi Giovanni
    Quantum kinetic equation for hierarchic systems
    Mikhail Ataisky
    Organisation Temporal Platonic Metaphysics
    Mikovic Aleksandar
     
    16h20-16h40
    Cosmology at the Frontier of Neutrino Physics
    Swanson Molly

    Electromagnetic Theory of the Nuclear Intearction. Application to the Deuteron 2H
    Bernard Shaeffer

    		  

     

    Friday, July 9

     

    Timeframe
    Big Bang Cosmology / Dark Energy
    Particle physics and Fundamental Interactions
    Epistemology, History of Physics
    Session
    9h - 9h20
    Indirect searches for dark matter with Cherenkov telescopes
    Brun Pierre
    Semiclassical limit to non-classical dynamics
    Paul Thierry
    The problem of time in quantum gravity
    Alexis De Saint Ours
    9h20 - 9h40
    3rd Year Cosmological Results
    Guy Julien
    Universal Behavior in Classical Chaos
    Kröger Helmut
    Is cosmology a historical science?
    Grignon Claude