Dear all,

We are delighted to be holding "Modern Trends in Particle Physics: A Conference in Honor of Pran Nath" this week, May 17-18, on Northeastern University's campus.

We hope that you will be able to attend, in which case we ask you to please register, but note that the registration is free. There is a banquet in the evening that is $100 that must be prepaid, should you choose to join for the banquet; meal selections may be made on the registration form.

Please see the conference website for additional information. The speaker list and talk schedule has been pasted below for your convenience.

Best regards,

Jim Halverson

Speakers

Ignatios Antoniadis, (Paris, LPTHE & U. Bern, AEC), Inflation from Supersymmetry Breaking
Kaladi Babu, (Oklahoma State University), Confronting unified theories with nucleon decay and neutrino oscillations
Marcela Carena, (Fermilab & UChicago, EFI & UChicago, KICP), TBA
Ali Chamseddine, (AUB, Beirut and Radboud University, Nijmegen), Mimetic Gravity
Mirjam Cvetic, (University of Pennsylvania) Landscape of globally consistent three-family Standard Models in F-theory
Michael Dine, (University of California, Santa Cruz), Hierarchy of Hierarchies
Liam Fitzpatrick, (Boston University), Conformal Bootstrap and Quantum Field Theory
Richard Gaitskell, (Brown University), Current and Future Directions for Direct Dark Matter Detection
S. James Gates, Jr., (Brown University), Breitenlohner’s M-Theory Magic Carpet
James Hirschauer, (Fermilab), SUSY Searches at LHC
Steve King, (University of Southampton), Grand Unified Theories of Flavour
Andrei Linde, (Stanford University), Inflation after Planck 2018
Fernando Quevedo, (ICTP, Trieste & Cambridge University, DAMTP), Pre and Post Inflation in String Theory
Cumrun Vafa, (Harvard University), A Swampland Update
Carlos Wagner, (UChicago, EFI & UChicago, KICP & Argonne), Supersymmetry and LHC Physics
Lian-Tao Wang, (UChicago, EFI & UChicago, KICP), Future Colliders

Schedule

Friday, May 17

9:00-9:10: Welcome
9:10-9:55: Cvetic, Landscape of globally consistent three-family Standard Models in F-theory
9:55-10:35: Antoniadis, Inflation from Supersymmetry Breaking
10:35-11:00: Coffee break
11:00- 11:40: Linde, Inflation after Planck 2018
11:40-12:20: Chamseddine, Mimetic Gravity
12:20-2:00: Lunch
2:00-2:40: Fitzpatrick, Conformal Bootstrap and Quantum Field Theory
2:40–3:20: Gates, Breitenlohner’s M-Theory Magic Carpet
3:20-3:50: Coffee break
3:50-4:30: Gaitskell, Current and Future Directions for Direct Dark Matter Detection
4:30-5:10: Babu, Confronting unified theories with nucleon decay and neutrino oscillations
5:10-6:15: Free time
6:15-8:30: Banquet; McLeod Suites, Curry Center.

Saturday, May 18

9:30-10:10: Vafa, A Swampland Update
10:10-10:50: Dine, Hierarchy of Hierarchies
10:50-11:10: Coffee break
11:10-11:50: Wagner, Supersymmetry and LHC Physics
11:50-12:30: Hirschauer, SUSY Searches at LHC
12:30-2:00: Lunch
2:00-2:40: King, Grand Unified Theories of Flavour
2:40–3:20: Carena, TBA
3:20-3:50: Coffee break
3:50-4:30: Wang, Future Colliders
4:30-5:10: Quevedo, Pre and Post Inflation in String Theory
5:10-5:15: Thank you
5:15 pm: Meeting ends