Dear colleagues

We are pleased to announce the second Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physi cs graduate summer school, "Joint Challenges for Cosmology and Collide rs," to be held in downtown Mainz from August 7-25, 2017. The school is aimed at advanced graduate students in theoretical high en ergy physics from Europe and abroad, who are in the research stages of thei r graduate careers.

The lecturers for our 2017 school and their topics are:
Evgeny A khmedov (MPI Heidelberg) - Neutrino Phe nomenology
Nima Ark ani-Hamed (IAS) - Collider Phy sics from the Bottom Up
Matthias Bartelmann (U. of Heidelberg) - Lambda CDM a nd Early Universe Cosmology
Brian Ba tell (U. of Pittsburgh) - Laboratory P robes of Dark Matter and Neutrinos
Marcela Carena (FNAL/U. of Chicago) - CP Violation and the Baryogenesis Puzzle
Stefania Gori (U. of Cincinnati) - Beyond the S tandard Model Phenomenology
Christop he Grojean (DESY) - Standard Mod el, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, and the Higgs Boson
Andreas Ringwald (DESY) - Axions and A xion-Like Particles
Tracy Sl atyer (MIT) - CMB and Astr ophysical Probes of Dark Matter
LianTao Wang (U. of Chicago) - Dark Matter at the Collider
Neal Wei ner (NYU) - Dark Matter Model Building

Applicants should have basic knowledge of quantum field theory and the S tandard Model and are expected to attend the entirety of the three weeks.&n bsp; Applications are now open at https://indic o.mitp.uni-mainz.de/event/88/page/1 , and the application deadline is 31 March 2017. Successful applicants will be notified shortly thereafter. We anticipate 50 students will be accepted for the school. The cost for the three w eek program, including full board (except lunch and dinner on weekends), sh ared housing (two persons to a room), and coffee breaks, is 980 EUR. (Single rooms can be secured at an additional co st of 150 EUR.) In addition to the lecture series indicated above, we are also planning a vibrant social program and informal discussion session s with the lecturers. Please find more information on our Indico site, https://indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de/event/88 .&nbs p; Mainz is located approximately 45 minutes by train west of Frankfurt in Germany. The Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics is part of the Excellence Cluster "PRISMA" and is locate d in the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.

Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested. For any questions, please contact us at theory school2017@uni-mainz.de

Sincerely yours,
The MITP 2017 graduate summer school organizing committee
Anna Kaminska, Joachim Kopp, Matthias Neubert, Maikel de Vries, Felix Yu


Mainz Institute for Theoretical Phys ics
PRISMA Cluster of Excellence
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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55128 Mainz
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