XVIII Vietnam School of Physics (VSOP-18)

Quy Nhon, 23 July - 4 August 2012

SCIENTIFC PROGRAM

The school scientific program will consist of regular lectures, sessions for tutorship, discussions, mini-seminars and posters. A detailed schedule can be found here (for the first week) and here (for the second week).

REGULAR LECTURES:

FIRST WEEK (23 – 28 July):

o   Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland):

Gauge theory and symmetry breaking, 

(Lecture notes: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.)

(References: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14.)

o   Rohini Godbole (IISc, Bangalore, India):

BSM through the window of electroweak symmetry breaking,

(Lecture notes: Lecture 5 and 6.)

(References: Lectures given in Corfu, Greece, some chapters of a book on SUSY.)

o Yoshimasa Kurihara (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan):

QCD at the LHC.

(Lecture notes: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4.)

o   Hang Bae Kim (Hanyang University, Korea):

Introduction to modern cosmology,

(Lecture notes: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.)

SECOND WEEK (30 July – 04 August):

o Rohini Godbole (IISc, Bangalore, India):

BSM through the window of electroweak symmetry breaking,

(References: Lectures given in Corfu, Greece, some chapters of a book on SUSY.)

o Yoshimasa Kurihara (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan):

QCD at the LHC.

(Lecture notes: Lecture 4-5, Lecture 5.)

o Matthias Schott (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland):

Experimental aspects of the standard model at the LHC,

(Lecture notes: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Excercise.)

o   Genevieve Belanger (LAPTH, Annecy, France):

Dark matter and physics beyond the standard model.

(Lecture notes: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3-4.)

(References: Lectures given in Lausanne, Switzerland.)

TOPICAL TALKS:

o Misaharu Nomachi (Osaka university, Osaka, Japan):

Data handling and data analysis,

o Tadafumi Kishimoto (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan):

Double beta decay and neutrino physics.

MINI-SEMINARS: to be announced.

POSTERS: to be announced.