Celebrating Bruno Zumino's 90th Birthday BrunoFest 2013 May 2-4 2013

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BrunoFestInvited Speakers

  • Edward Witten (IAS)
  • Steven Weinberg (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (Stony Brook)
  • Nathan Seiberg (IAS)
  • John H. Schwarz (Caltech)
  • Albert S. Schwarz (UC Davis)
  • Gigi Rolandi (CERN)
  • Luciano Maiani (U. Rome La Sapienza)
  • Renata Kallosh (Stanford)
  • David Gross (KITP/UCSB) to be confirmed
  • Michael B. Green (Cambridge University)
  • Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)
  • Dan Freedman (MIT)
  • Sergio Ferrara (CERN)
  • John Ellis (CERN)
  • Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford)
  • Stanley Deser (Brandeis and Caltech)
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

Organizing Committee

  • Michele Papucci (chair)
  • Petr Horava (co-chair)
  • Mina Aganagic
  • Raphael Bousso
  • Michael Chanowitz
  • Ori Ganor
  • Lawrence Hall
  • Beate Heinemann
  • Maria Hjelm
  • Zoltan Ligeti
  • LaVern Navarro
  • Omid Saremi

About Bruno

Bruno Zumino (April 28, 1923, Rome, Italy) is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his DSc degree from the University of Rome in 1945.

Bruno is well-known for his proof of the CPT theorem in collaboration with Gerhart Luders. He pioneered systematization of the effective chiral Lagrangians. In collaboration with Julius Wess, they invented the so-called "Wess-Zumino model", which is widely viewed as the first four dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory. He initiated the field of supersymmetric radiative restrictions. He is known for his deciphering of the structured flavor-chiral anomalies which is codified in the Wess-Zumino-Witten model of conformal field theory.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • 1985 Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1987 Dirac Prize
  • 1988 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
  • 1989 Max Planck medal
  • 1992 Wigner medal
  • 1992 Humboldt Research Award
  • 1999 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Gold Medal
  • 2005 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society

Major Positions

  • 1951-1953: New York University, Research Associate in Physics
  • 1953-1968: New York University, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
  • 1968-1981: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Senior Researcher
  • 1981-1994: University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics
  • 1994-present: University of California, Berkeley, Professor Emeritus of Physics

Selected Part-Time Positions

  • 1984-1987: Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

BrunoFest 2013Event Details

Registration

There is a $275 registration fee for the workshop and a $100 fee for the banquet.

Accommodation

We suggest that BrunoFest participants stay at the Hotel Shattuck because due to its convenience to the conference and the Berkeley campus. A special participant price has been arranged for May 1, 2, and 3, 2013. Make your reservation online or by calling 510-845-7300 or toll free 866-466-9199 and ask for the BrunoFest group

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Event Venue

The David Brower Center

Banquet

The banquet will be held on Thursday, May 2nd, at 6:30pm at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza

Schedule

Unless noted otherwise, talks will be held at:

David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 (directions)

Schedule of speakers

BrunoFest 2013: Schedule of Talks

TimeSpeakerTitle
Thursday, May 2
9:00 Savas Dimopoulos What has the LHC done to Theory?
9:45 Nathan Seiberg Reading between the lines of four-dimensional gauge theories
10:30 Coffee and tea break
11:00 Stanley Deser The only(?) unknown WZ masterpiece and its time-travails
11:45 John Ellis Learning to live with scalars
12:30 lunch (buffet)
2:30 Luciano Maiani Supersymmetry: not time to give it up, yet
3:15 Fabiola Gianotti Getting to know two new friends
4:00 Coffee and tea break
4:30 Gigi Rolandi Search for supersymmetry at the LHC
6:30 Banquet
Friday, May 3
9:00 Dan Freedman AdS/CFT and SUSY
9:45 Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Supersymmetric solitons and anomaly multiplets
10:30 Coffee and tea break
11:00 Albert Schwarz String theory and Mathematics: Variations on a theme
11:45 Nima Arkani-Hamed Locality and unitarity from positivity
12:30 lunch (local restautrants)
2:30 Renata Kallosh Supergravity at Large
3:15 Michael Green Perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of superstring amplitudes
5:00 Public talk by Fabiola Gianotti at the Chevron Auditorium in the I-House
Saturday, May 4
9:00 Sergio Ferrara Highlights in Supersymmetry and Supergravity
9:45 John Schwarz An NMSSM scenario
10:30 Coffee and tea break
11:00 Steven Weinberg Goldstone Bosons in the Sky
11:45 Edward Witten The Feynman iε in string theory
12:30 lunch (buffet)

Public Lecture

Dr. Fabiola GianottiThe public lecture will be given in the Chevron Auditorium at the International House in Berkeley on Friday, May 3rd 2013 by Dr. Fabiola Gianotti from CERN ("European Organisation of Nuclear Research").

Dr. Gianotti was the spokesperson of the ATLAS collaboration from March 2009 until March 2013. The ATLAS experiment is one of the two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland that announced the observation of a new "Higgs-like" boson on July 4th 2012. Dr. Gianotti made the presentation of this discovery on behalf of the ATLAS collaboration at at CERN on that day. Aside from the Higgs boson search, the ATLAS experiment is also looking for many other new phenomena, e.g. new particles predicted by Supersymmetry, a theory invented by Bruno Zumino and his collaborator Julius Wess in 1974 when they both worked at CERN.

Dr. Gianotti received her PhD from University of Milan in 1989, working on searches for Supersymmetry in the UA2 experiment at CERN. Since 1996 she is employed by CERN as a Research Physicist. She has been involved in the ATLAS experiment since the beginning of the project, in 1990, working on detector development, design and construction, becoming Physics Coordinator in 1999, Deputy Spokesperson in 2004 and Spokesperson in March 2009. In the period 1996-2000 she has been involved in the ALEPH experiment at the CERN LEP e+e- Collider, where she has worked on data analysis and coordinated the Supersymmetry group.

In March 2011 she was included by The Guardian newspaper in the "Top 100 most inspirational women". Since June 2012 she is member of the Italian Academy of Sciences ("Accademia dei Lincei"). In September 2012 she was awarded the honor of "Grande Ufficiale" by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. In December 2012 she was among the recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize of the Milner Foundation. She was runner-up to Time magazine's person of the year in 2012.

The poster of the event can be found here.

Bruno in Pictures

About Bruno

Bruno ZuminoBruno Zumino (April 28, 1923, Rome, Italy) is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his DSc degree from the University of Rome in 1945.

Bruno is well-known for his proof of the CPT theorem in collaboration with Gerhart Luders. He pioneered systematization of the effective chiral Lagrangians. In collaboration with Julius Wess, they invented the so-called "Wess-Zumino model", which is widely viewed as the first four dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory. He initiated the field of supersymmetric radiative restrictions. He is known for his deciphering of the structured flavor-chiral anomalies which is codified in the Wess-Zumino-Witten model of conformal field theory.

  • Selected Awards and Honors
  • 1985 Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1987 Dirac Prize
  • 1988 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
  • 1989 Max Planck medal
  • 1992 Wigner medal
  • 1992 Humboldt Research Award
  • 1999 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Gold Medal
  • 2005 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society
  • Major Positions
  • 1951-1953: New York University, Research Associate in Physics
  • 1953-1968: New York University, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
  • 1968-1981: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Senior Researcher
  • 1981-1994: University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics
  • 1994-present: University of California, Berkeley, Professor Emeritus of Physics
  • Selected Part-Time Positions
  • 1984-1987: Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

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