What is Known and Unexpected at LHC

Contents:

• Hot Theoretical Topics:

  • Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From QCD to N = 8 Supergravity (Z Bern)
  • The Measure Problem in Cosmology (R Bousso)
  • Black Holes and Qubits (M J Duff)
  • Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Aspects of N = 8 Supergravity (S Ferrara)
  • The Gravitational S-Matrix: Erice Lectures (S B Giddings)

• Seminars on Specialized Topics:

  • Direct Evidence of Oscillation from II to III Family Neutrinos (Y Declais)
  • Probing the Small Distance Structure of Canonical Quantum Gravity using the Conformal Group (G 't Hooft)
  • The QGCW Project — Technological Challenges to Study the New World (H Wenninger)

• Highlights from Laboratories:

  • The LHC and Beyond — Status, Results and Perspectives (R D Heuer)
  • Highlights from FERMILAB (P J Oddone)
  • Anti- and Hypermatter Research at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR (H Stoecker)
  • Highlights from BNL-RHIC (S Vigdor)
  • Highlights from GRAN SASSO (L Votano)
  • Highlights from ISS-AMS (S C C Ting)

• Special Sessions for New Talents:

  • Four-Qubit Entanglement: Lessons of a Black Hole (L Borsten)
  • A Simple Way to Take into Account Back Reaction on Pair Creation (P Burda)
  • Search for a High-Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron (D Gerbaudo)
  • Twisted Strings in Extended Abelian Higgs Model (A Lukács)
  • Positronium Hyperfine Splitting (A Miyazaki)
  • How I Failed to Find any New Fundamental Particles (M Mulhearn)

  Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in the field of subnuclear physics.