Program

Lectures and topics

Schedule (PDF)

STEFANO CATANI (Firenze U. & INFN, Firenze)
Perturbative QCD (12 hours)

QCD running coupling and asymptotic freedom
Perturbative calculations, infrared-safe observables and jets
Hadron collisions and scaling violation
Parton densities and their evolution equations
Factorization theorem
All-order summation

GINO ISIDORI (INFN, Frascati)
Flavor Physics (10 hours)

The flavor sector of the SM
Theoretical tools for weak interactions at low energies 
Selected issues in quark-mixing  phenomenology
Flavor mixing in the lepton sector 
Flavor physics beyond the SM and Flavor models

DAVID SHIH (Rutgers U.)
Supersymmetry (10 hours)

SUSY basics (supermultiplets, superfields, Lagrangians, gauge symmetry)
Spontaneous and dynamical SUSY breaking 
Mediation mechanisms and the (M)SSM

MATTHEW STRASSLER (Harvard U.)
Collider Physics (9 hours)

Principles and challenges of hadron colliders
The main physics processes at the Large Hadron Collider
Particle physics and how measurements are made 
How searches for new phenomena are carried out
The discovery of the Higgs
The searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

RAMAN SUNDRUM (Maryland U.)
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (9 hours)

TOMER VOLANSKY (Tel-Aviv U.)
Dark Matter (9 hours)