The second announcement of the seventh workshop organized by Norma Mankoč
Borštnik, Colin Froggatt and Holger Bech Nielsen

 

Dear colleague,

 This letter is the second announcement of the seventh workshop entitled


 
"What Comes Beyond the Standard Model?"
 

 


which will take place at Bled from 19th of July to 30th of July 2004 (July 19th is the arrival day, July 30th the departure day).

Please, note that due to the fact that DMFA, the owner of the Plemelj's house, has increased the price of the house for almost a factor of two, and that our Ministry of science and education has agreed to pay only the half of this price, the registration fee has to be increased to EUR 600.

Our workshop is organized for the purpose of answering some of the open questions in the electroweak Standard Model like:

  1. Why has Nature made a choice of four (noticeable) dimensions while all the others, if existing, are hidden? And what are the properties of space-time in the hidden dimensions?

 

  1. How could Nature make the decision about the breaking of symmetries down to the noticeable ones, coming from some higher dimension d?

 

  1. Why is the metric of space-time Minkowskian and how is the choice of metric connected with the evolution of our universe(s)?

 

  1. Where does the observed asymmetry between matter and antimatter originate from?

 

  1. Why do massless fields exist at all? Where does the weak scale come from?

 

  1. Why do only left-handed fermions carry the weak charge? Why does the weak charge break parity?

 

  1. What is the origin of Higgs fields? Where does the Higgs mass come from?

 

  1. Where does the small hierarchy come from? (Or why are some Yukawa couplings so small and where do they come from?)

 

  1. Do Majorana-like particles exist?

 

  1. Where do the generations come from?

 

  1. Can all known elementary particles be understood as different states of only one particle, with a unique internal space of spins and charges?

 

  1. How can all gauge fields (including gravity) be unified and quantized?

 

  1. Why do we have more matter than antimatter in our universe?

 

  1. What is our universe made out of (besides the baryonic matter)?

 

  1. What is the role of symmetries in Nature?

 

  1. What is the origin of the field which caused inflation?

 

 

 

The aim of the workshop is to bring together physicists, who are trying to find the answers to some of these and other open questions from the field of the elementary particles and cosmology and who would enjoy to actively discuss the above questions in a small group.

 

In the last six years we organized four workshops entitled ``What Comes Beyond the Standard Model?" They took place annually in July since 1998.  Each year we spent ten days, trying to answer these questions in a very pleasant and relaxing atmosphere. One proceedings is published and Volumes I and II of the second are now published as well. Last year we have also organized the first conference in a conference series "What comes beyond the Standard models?" titled "Euroconference on symmetries beyond the Standard models" from
12. - 17. of July 2003 in Portoroz, Slovenia.


The Physical Society together with the Mathematical Society owns a house (an access map is available here), whose owner was the well known mathematician Josip Plemelj. This house can accept 16 people in 8 rooms. It also has a lecture room for around 20 people.

Bled is a nice town by the lake of the same name, surrounded by mountains, with many comfortable hotels.

The workshop is organized by the Primorska Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology and the University of Ljubljana, FMF, Department of Physics.  We have asked the European Physical Society and the Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport to sponsor this workshop. The workshop is sponsored by the Slovenian National Committee for Physics, DMFA, Department of Physics, FMP, University of Ljubljana.


ONE PAGE CONTRIBUTION

We kindly ask you to send a one page contribution to the workshop until the end of May 2004       .

 

 

SUGGESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS

 

We also ask you to write in a few sentences the suggestions for the open problems, which you are prepared to lead the discussions for, or you suggest the discussions about.

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

It is planned that in the first two or three days everybody will present her or his work in a one hour talk. In the rest of the workshop we shall discuss the open problems.


APPLICATION FORM

SURNAME........................................
FIRST NAME.....................................
TITLE (Mr., Mrs., Dr., Prof.)......................
MAILING ADDRESS................................
................................................
................................................
PHONE..........................................
FAX............................................
e-mail.........................................
CITIZENSHIP....................................
PASSPORT NUMBER AND DATE OF EXPIRY.............
DAY, MONTH AND YEAR OF BIRTH...................
ARRIVAL (day, hour; plane, train, car).........
Would you like to stay in the Plemelj's house, sharing the room with a colleague? YES........(please suggest the name)
Would you prefer to stay in a hotel?(single room costs approximately DEM 120 per night) YES......

TITLE OF TALK.................................

The registration fee, which will include all the expenses, if living in the Plemelj's house, will not exceed 600 EUR. We shall be able to pay travel and living expenses to a few participants from the Eastern countries, who are not able to come otherwise. Please let us know, if you need a letter of invitation from the organizing committee either for your institute/university or for a visa application. We shall send to all the participants a map of Bled (which you can also find here). We recommend that you bring appropriate shoes for trekking and mountaineering .

 

We are looking forward to meeting you at Bled.


Norma Mankoč Borštnik, Holger Bech Nielsen, Colin Froggatt

 

The list of suggested participants:

1.      R. Ablamowitz ( rablamowicz@tntech.edu )
2.      D. Ahluwalia ( vahluwa@cantera.reduaz.mx )
3.      Borut Bajc ( Borut.Bajc@ijs.si )
4.      Lars Bergstrom ( lbe@physto.se )
5.      Don Bennett ( bennett@nbivms.nbi.dk )
6.      Loriano Bonora ( bonora@sissa.it )
7.      Milutin Blagojevic ( mb@phy.bg.ac.yu )
8.      Wilfried Buchmuller ( buchmuwi@desyvax.desy.de )
9.      Marcus Cohen ( marcus@nmsu.edu )
10.     Abdel Djouadi ( Abdel.Djouadi@cern.ch )
11.     Savas Dimopoulos ( savas@squirrel.stanford.edu )
        ( Savas.Dimopoulos@cern.ch )( savas@leland.stanford.edu )
12.     Valeri Dvoeglazov ( valeri@cantera.reduaz.mx )
13.     Recai Erdem ( erdem@likya.iyte.edu.tr )
14.     Paul H. Frampton ( frampton@physics.unc.edu )
15.     Bojan Gornik ( bojan.gornik@fiz.uni-lj.si )
16.     David Gross ( gross@itp.ucsb.edu )
17.     Guang-jiong Ni ( gjni@fudan.ac.ch )
18.     L. Hannibal ( hannibal@uni-oldenburg.de )
19.     Gerard 't Hooft ( g.thooft@fys.ruu.nl )
20.     Jaime Keller ( keller@servidor.unam.mx )
21.     Astri Kleppe ( KLEPPE@nbivms.nbi.dk )
22.     Larisa Laperashvili ( larisa@vitep5.itep.ru )
23.     Karen Ter Martirosyan ( termarti@vitep5.itep.ru )
24.     Rabindra Mohapatra ( rmohapat@physics.umd.edu )
25.     Roman Nevzorov ( nevzorov@heron.itep.ru )
26.     Zbigniew Oziewicz ( oziewicz@math.cinvestav.mx )
27.     Silvio Pallua ( pallua@phy.hr )
28.     Matej Pavsic ( matej.pavsic@ijs.si )
29.     Ivica Picek ( picek@phy.hr )
30.     Matjaz Poljsak ( matpoljsak@ijs.si )
31.     T. Pradhan ( pradhan@beta.iopb.stpbh.soft.net )
32.     Marcos Rosenbaum Pitluck ( mrosen@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx )
33.     Leszek Roszkowski ( l.roszkowski@lancaster.ac.uk )
34.     Mitja Rosina ( mitja.rosina@ijs.si )
35.     Svend E. Rugh ( rugh@nbi.dk )
36.     Norberto Salinas ( norberto@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu )
37.     Hergen Scheck ( hergen.scheck@desy.de )
38.     Ivan Shushpanov ( shushpan@heron.itep.ru )
39.     D. Singleton ( das3y@maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu )
40.     Berthold Stech ( b.stech@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de )
41.     Hanns Stremnitzer ( STREM@Pap.UniVie.AC.AT )
42.     Yasutaka Takanishi( yasutaka@ictp.trieste.it )
43.     Michael Turner ( m.turner@oddjob.uchicago.edu )
44.     Steven Weinberg ( weinberg@physics.utexas.edu )
45.     Julius Wess ( Julius.Wess@physik.uni-muenchen.de )
46.     Richard Woodard ( Richard.Woodard@cern.ch )
47.     Marek Zralek ( zralek@us.edu.pl )
48.     Colin Froggatt ( c.froggatt@physics.gla.ac.uk )
49.     Holger Bech Nielsen ( hbech@nbivms.nbi.dk )
50.     Norma Mankoc Borstnik ( norma.s.mankoc@ijs.si )
51.     Qaisar Shafi ( shafi@bartol.udel.edu )
52.     Roy Alexan ( aleksan@hep.saclay.cea.fr )
53.     Enrique Alvarez ( enrique.alvarez@uam.es )
54.     Ignatios Antoniadis ( Ignatios.Antoniadis@cern.ch )
55.     John W. Barrett ( jwb@maths.nott.ac.uk )
56.     Michael Duff ( mduff@umich.edu )
57.     Roman Jackiw ( jackiw@lns.mit.edu )
58.     Dmitri Kazakov ( kazakovd@thsun1.jinr.ru )
59.     Elias Kiritsis ( kiritsis@physics.uoc.gr )
60.     Wolfgang Kummer ( wkummer@tph.tuwien.ac.at )
61.     Fedele Lizzi ( Fedele.Lizzi@na.infn.it )
62.     John Madore ( John.Madore@th.u-psud.fr )
63.     Lev Okun ( okun@heron.itep.ru )
64.     Eliezer Rabinovici ( ELIEZER@vms.HUJI.AC.IL )
65.     Kumar Narain ( narain@ictp.trieste.it )
66.     Pavle Saksida ( pavle.saksida@fmf.uni-lj.si )
67.     Ronald Mirman ( sssbb@cunyvm.cuny.edu )
68.     E. I. Guendelman ( guendel@bgumail.bgu.ac.il )
69.     A. B. Kaganovich ( alexk@bgumail.bgu.ac.il )