SUNY Institute of Technology

Conference on Theoretical High Energy Physics

Friday October 12, 2001

This conference was held on October 12, 2001 at the SUNY Institute of Technology, and was the first high energy physics conference at this institute. It brought together participants from different universities in the central New York including Syracuse University, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Geneseo, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Morrisville, Hobart \& William Smith, Mohawk Valley Community College and Utica College. Almost all speakers were from Syracuse University, and included senior and junior high energy physicists. The conference provided a general view of the field, and included talks on phenomenological as well as formal aspects of high energy physics, and gravity. The proceedings of this conference is published by the SUNY Institute of Technology.

Organizers:

A.H. Fariborz
E. Rusjan

Sponsors:

School of Arts & Sciences, SUNYIT
Office of Conference Services & Sponsored Research, SUNYIT

Schedule

8:00 - 8:45 Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:45 Welcome:

Dr. R. Sarner, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome
Dr. D. Murphy, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome

Session I [E. Rusjan, Chair]

9:00 - 9:45 A.P. Balachandran (Syracuse): Quantum Spacetimes in the Year One
9:45 - 10:30 S. Catterall (Syracuse): Exact Lattice Supersymmetry
10:30 - 10:55 G.G. Alexanian (Syracuse): Spin and Statistics in Quantum Gravity

10:55 - 11:20 Break

Session II [J. Schechter, Chair]

11:20 - 12:05 A.H. Fariborz ( SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome): Chiral Lagrangian Treatment of the Scalar Mesons
12:05 - 12:30 A. Abdel-Rehim (Syracuse): Role of the Scalar Resonances in the eta Decay into 3 Pi

12:30 - 2:15 Lunch

Session III [J. Brockway, Chair]

2:15 - 3:00 M. Bowick (Syracuse): String Formation in Phase Transitions
3:00 - 3:45 D. Marolf (Syracuse): Farewell to Floating Boxes
3:45 - 4:10 J. Rozowsky (Syracuse): Negative Tension Branes and Associated Instabilities

4:10 - 4:35 Break

Session IV [A.H. Fariborz, Chair]

4:35 - 5:00 P. Silva (Syracuse): Stabilization of Brane-World Scenarios
5:00 - 5:25 B. Ydri (Syracuse): Chiral Fermions on the Fuzzy Sphere
5:25 - 5:50 S. Moussa (SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome): Constrains on the Majoron Coupling in the Z decay in Higher Dimensions

Adjourn





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