Mike Fest - Friday, September 22nd, 2006 - Northeastern University

[C Cardona neu edu]

On Friday, September 22, 2006 the Physics
Department will be hosting MikeFest, a celebration of Professor
Michael T. Vaughn's 70th birthday and in recognition of his well known
contributions in particle theory, specifically in the derivation of two
loop normalization group equations of Yang-Mills gauge theories and of
softly broken supersymmetric theories.

Please contact Barbara Najarian at x2920
for addition information or visit http://www.physics.neu.edu/MikeFest.htm.

Date:        
       Friday, September 22, 2006
Time:        
       9:00am-5:00pm 
Location:        Raytheon
Amphitheatre, Egan Research Building


Schedule of Speakers


9:00-9:30am      
          Welcome
                
       Pran Nath, MikeFest Chair
                
       Robert P. Lowndes, Physics Dept.
Chair
                
       Srinivas Sridhar, Vice Provost
Research 

Session I        
        Chair: Professor George O.
Alverson 

9:30-10:00am      
          Professor Marie Machacek
                
       Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
                
       "Life in the Cosmic Fast Lane"


10:00-10:30am      
  Professor Tom Kephart
                
       Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Physics
                
       "Lattices in 24k-Dimensions and
the Fischer-Griess Monster Group" 

10:30-11:00am        
Coffee Break 

Session II        
        Chair: Professor Haim Goldberg


11:00-11:30am      
  Professor Kameshwar C. Wali
                
       Syracuse University, Dept. of Physics
                
       "Clash of Symmetries in a Brane
World Picture" 

11:30am-12:00pm      
  Professor Ken Barnes
                
       University of Southampton
                
       School of Physics and Astronomy
                
       "Particle Spectra on Kahler Manifolds"


12:00-12:30pm      
  Professor Paul Frampton
                
       University of North Carolina, Dept.
of Physics and Astronomy
                
       "Phenomenology Beyond the Standard
Model" 

12:30-2:00pm        
        Lunch 

Session III      
          Chair: Professor Tomasz
Taylor 

2:00-2:30pm      
          Professor Tim Jones
                
       University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
                
       "N=1 Supersymmetric Beta-Functions
and (some of) What They're Good For" 

2:30-3:00pm      
          Professor Robert Markiewicz
                
       Northeastern University
                
       "The Eight-Fold Way to High-Temperature
Superconductivity--Mike's Merry Adventures in Condensed Matter Physics"


3:00-3:30pm        
        Coffee Break 

Session IV        
        Chair: Professor J. Timothy
Sage 

3:30-4:00pm      
          Professor Ian Jack
                
       University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
                
       "N=0 and N=1/2 Supersymmetric Beta
Functions" 

4:00-4:30pm      
          Professor T.C. Yuan
                
       National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
                
       "CP Violation Effects in Charged
Higgs Decays into 2 Gauge Bosons in MSSM" 

4:30-5:00pm      
          Professor Tom Weiler
                
       Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Physics
                
       "What Neutrinos Can Bring to Astrophysics"