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MCTP-04-35

THE MICHIGAN CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS∗

ANNUAL REPORT 2003–2004

M. J. DUFF†

Michigan Center for Theoretical PhysicsRandall Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1120, USA

Each spring, the Director of The Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics shall presentan annual report and submit the MCTP budget for the next fiscal year. This is thefourth.

∗http://www.umich.edu/˜mctp/†[email protected]

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Contents

1 Overview 31.1 Message from the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2 Amendment to the Bylaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.3 Major external funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 Fiscal year: 2003–2004 62.1 Conferences and workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.2 Colloquia and Public Lectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.4 Postdoctoral Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.5 Graduate student fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.6 Undergraduate research scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.7 Successful proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.8 Outreach and media coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.9 The 2003–2004 budget (projected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3 Fiscal Year: 2004-2005 143.1 Conferences and workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.2 Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.3 Graduate student fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.4 Undergraduate research scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.5 Postdoctoral fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.6 Successful proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.7 The 2004-2005 budget (projected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

4 Acknowledgments 18

A Actual budget for fiscal year: 2002–2003 19

B Proposal 19

C Bylaws 19

D Membership list 19D.1 Full members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19D.2 Associate members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E Postdocs, graduate students and long-term visitors 23E.1 Postdocs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23E.2 Graduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23E.3 Long-term visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24E.4 Computer manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24E.5 Secretaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

F Committees 24F.1 Executive Committee of the MCTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24F.2 Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24F.3 Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24F.4 Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24F.5 Undergraduate research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

G Publications 25

Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics 3

1 Overview

1.1 Message from the Director

The fiscal year July 2003-June 2004 proved to be an eventful one for the MichiganCenter for Theoretical Physics (MCTP). There were six major scientific programsexemplifying the diverse activities of the MCTP: the “Deserfest” workshop in Aprilimmediately followed by the “Status of M-theory Theory” conference, the “Darkside of the Universe” workshop in May, the “Ion Trap Quantum Computing” work-shop in May, the “Building Computational Devices using Coherent Control” work-shop in June, a year-long visitor program for young string theorists and a year-longvisitor program for Condensed Matter and AMO. It was also a pleasure to hosttheoretical physicist and author Paul Davies for the month of April.

We welcomed three new postdocs: Jason Kumar, UC San Diego (high en-ergy/string theory); Dejan Stokovic, U of Alberta (astrophysics/cosmology); NicolaPetrov, U of Michigan (non-linear dynamics).

During the year MCTP members have produced 65 publications in various areasof theoretical physics, bringing the total number of MCTP publcations to 256.These include:

* High Energy Physics: String theory, M-theory and D-branes, non-commutativegeometry, particle physics phenomenology including CP violation and topquark and Higgs physics, g − 2 and supersymmetry.

* Condensed Matter Physics: Critical dynamics, superconductivity, phonon ra-diation, bond percolation, vortex structures.

* Relativity and Astrophysics: Gravitational lensing, redshift surveys, X-rayastronomy, black holes, relativistic jets, cosmic inflation and dark energy

* Non-linear dynamics: turbulence

* Networking: correlations in the internet

The list of publications may be found in appendix G.We welcomed two new Full Members this year: Homer Neal and Herbert Win-

ful. There are currently 61 Full members from the Departments of Astronomy,Biology, Chemical Engineering, Complex Systems, Materials Science, Mathematicsand Physics. We are happy to note that the Full Membership includes several ex-perimental colleagues who take an active interest in theory. In addition there are57 Associate Members from an even more diverse list of departments within andwithout Michigan. The membership list is given in Appendix D.


We also welcomed a second secretary, Ricah Marquez, who will be working withour current secretary Angela Milliken.

Congratulations to the following members for their elections and awards: MartyEinhorn (Guggenheim Fellowship), Charlie Doering (Humboldt Fellowship), MichaelDuff, Gordy Kane and Franco Nori (elected Fellows of the Insitute of Physics) andlast but not least Phil Bucksbaum (elected to the National Academy of Sciences).

According to the bylaws, each spring, the Director of The Michigan Center forTheoretical Physics shall present an annual report and submit the MCTP budgetfor the next fiscal year. Since the fiscal year runs from July through June, how-ever, this will necessarily be a projection rather than the actual budget. The actualbudget will be given in the subsequent annual report. Accordingly, I have includedthe actual budget for fiscal 2002–2003 (Appendix A), as well projected budgetsfor 2003–2004 and 2004-2005. The Director’s state-of-the-center summary is deliv-ered annually at the Winter General Meeting. They are available on the web at:http://www.umich.edu/%7Emctp/membership.html

At the end of this year, Executive Committee member Bob Savit (CondensedMatter/AMO/Biophysics) will be stepping down to be replaced by Franco Nori, aswill Charlie Doering (Interdisciplinary) to be replaced by Anthony Bloch. I wouldlike to take this opportunity to thank Bob and Charlie for their helpful advice andhard work over the last two years and to welcome aboard Franco and Anthony.

1.2 Amendment to the Bylaws

As mentioned in previous reports, as a result of the early success of the MCTP, theDean extended the initial funding period an extra 18 months taking us to the endof 2005. At the Winter General Meeting, the MCTP Bylaws were amended (underthe two-thirds vote rule) to enable the current Director to serve until the end ofthat fiscal year, June 30, 2006.

1.3 Major external funding

The MCTP has continued with major external funding: a $900,000 Matching FundsGrant for High Energy Theory 2001–2005 from the DOE (PIs Michael Duff, Gor-don Kane and Myron Campbell). These MCTP matching funds (denoted Task T)are separate from, and in addition to, the regular high energy theory DOE grant(denoted Task G).

An MCTP sponsored proposal for “Fronts, Fluctuations and Growth” has beenapproved by NSF for $216,000 for 2002–2005 (PIs Charlie Doering, Joseph Conlon,Len Sander, Peter Smereka and Bob Ziff). The MCTP is providing $160,000 incost-sharing in the form of graduate student support.

An MCTP sponsored proposal “Estimating the Fraction of Solar Systems withHabitable Planets: Effects of Companions on Dynamical Stability and Forma-tion”has been approved by NASA for $166,000 for 2004–2007 (PI Fred Adams).


The MCTP is providing $63,000 in cost-sharing in the form of graduate studentsupport.

External fundraising efforts began in earnest this year with the involvementof the LS&A Development Office and the publication of a brochure outlining theactivities of the center aimed at Alumni and and the general public. It is avail-able electronically on the MCTP website or in hardcopy from Angie Millken [email protected] . One initiative will be the appointment of a “Director’s Council”composed of influential members of the business, media and scientific communities,whose job will be to spread the word on the Center’s activities and provide lead-ership in the development campaign. Interim President Emeritus Homer Neal haskindly lent his support.

Outside funding is essential if the MCTP is to grow and evolve. Endowedsupport is especially important, since these permanently-invested philanthropic giftsenable the Center to support discovery and innovation in a wide range of forms.Those who wish to be part of this exciting endeavor have a number of optionsavailable to them.

The Center’s development goals include:Month-long workshops convened by experts from around the world $30,000 to

$50,0002-year post-doctoral fellowships, 2-3 needed $100,000 eachScholarships & other graduate student support, 2-3 needed $12,000 eachUndergraduate summer research programs, 6 needed $2,000 each National and

international conferences $100,000Visiting faculty, per visitor $10,000Outreach $10,000Endowment for the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics $10,000,000We welcome outside interest and support. To learn more about contributing to

the work of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, we invite you to contact:Peggy BurnsUniversity of MichiganAssistant Dean for AdvancementCollege of Literature, Science, and the ArtsMaketing & CommunicationsDevelopment Office524 S. Main StreetAnn Arbor, MI [email protected]: (734) 998-7331fax: (734) 998-6250


2 Fiscal year: 2003–2004

2.1 Conferences and workshops

“Deserfest” workshop, April 3-5, 2004“Status of M-theory” conference, April 6-7, 2004“The Dark Side of the Universe” workshop, May 10-28, 2004“Ion Trap Quantum Computing” workshop, May 13-15, 2004“Building Computational Devices using Coherent Control” workshop, June 7-9,2004

2.2 Colloquia and Public Lectures

In keeping with its interdisciplinary mission, the MCTP hosts not-so-technicalColloquia designed to help us learn more about what our colleagues in other fieldsare doing. Coffee and cookies are served beforehand. The following were deliveredover the last year:

“Unveiling the Universe”, Joseph Silk (Oxford University), Tuesday, May 25,2004.

“The New Cosmology and its Challenge to Fundamental Physics”, Mark Trod-den (Syracuse University), Tuesday May 18, 2004.

“Event Horizons and the Generalised Second Law of Thermodynamics”, PaulDavies (Macquarie Univerisity), Tuesday April 20, 2004.

“Did Life Come from Mars?”, Paul Davies (Macquarie University), Friday April16, 2004.

“Multiverse Cosmologies: Just How Many Universes Do We Want?”, PaulDavies (Macquarie University), Wednesday, April 14, 2004.

“CORE: Frustrated Magnets, Charge Fractionalization and QCD”, Marvin We-instein (SLAC), Tuesday , March 16, 2004.

“Exploring Young Brown Dwarfs”, Ray Jaywardhana (University of Michigan),Tuesday, February 3, 2004.

“Puzzle of Charge and Mass”, Stuart Raby (Ohio State University), Monday,January 19, 2004.

“Black Holes for the Curious Physicist”, Malcolm Perry (University of Cam-bridge), Tuesday, September 30, 2004.

2.3 Visitors

Alexei Tsvelik (Univ. of Oxford), May 1 - June 1, 2004Keshav Dasgupta (Stanford), February 14-21, 2004Paul Davies (Macquarie University), April 10 - May 4, 2004Giovanni Russo (Universita di Catania), July 20 - August 21, 2003Christophe Grojean (Saclay), September 2003 - September 2004Jianxin Lu (Beijing), August 1, 2003 - February 6, 2004


David Berman (Cambridge), October 26 - Nov. 8, 2003Jnanadeva Maharana (Bhubaneswar Insitute), Sept. 20 - October 4, 2003Esteban Egido Moro (Madrid), Oct. 26 - November 16, 2003Malcolm Perry (Cambridge), Sept. 15 - Dec. 15, 2003; April 1-15, 2004Deserfest: A Celebration of the life and works of Stanley Deser, April3-5, 2004Larry Abbott (Brandeis University)Ricahrd Arnowitt (TAMU)David Boulware (University of Washington)Dieter Brill (University of Maryland)Lars Brink (Goteborg Univrsity)Thibault Damour (IHES)Tekin Dereli (Koc University)Stanley Deser (Brandeis University)Gary Gibbons (DAMTP)Roman Jackiw (MIT)Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland)Chalres Misner (University of Maryland)Jeanette Nelson (University of Torino)Rafael Nepomechie (University of Miami)Herman Nicolai (Einstein Institute, Potsdam)Massimo Porrati (New York University)Anton Ryzhov (Brandeis University)Howie Schnitzer (Brandeis University)Domenico Seminara (Universita di Pisa)Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute)Kelly Stelle (Imperial College)Frank Wilczek (MIT)Richard Woodard (University of Florida)The Status of M-theory, April 6-7, 2004Eric Bergshoeff (University of Groningen)Sergio Ferrara (CERN)Jerome Gauntlett (Perimeter Institute)Brian Greene (Columbia University)Paul Howe (Kings’ College, London)Chris Hull (Imperial College)Bernard Julia (Theorique de l’Ecole Normale Superieure)Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute)George Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus)Chris Pope (Texas A&M)Ergin Sezgin (Texas A&M)Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State University)


Dark Side of the Universe, May 10-28, 2004Edward Baltz (Standford)Gianfranco Bertone (NASA/Fermilab)Martin Bucher (DAMTP)Pier-tefano Corasaniti (Columbia University)Arlin Crotts (Columbia University)Sourish Dutta (CWRU)Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame)Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)David Graff (Museum of Natural History)Anne Greene (University of Sheffield)Patrick Greene (Fermilab)Eduardo Guendelman (University of the Negev)Rich Holman (Carnegie-Mellon)Gragan Huterer (CWRU)Will Kinney (University of Buffalo)Eric Linder (Berkeley lab)Subhabrata Majumdar (CITA)Grant Mathews (Notre Dame)Anupam Mazumdar (CHEP; McGill University)Laura Mersini (UNC-Chapel Hill)Emil Mottola (LANL)Pia Mukherjee (University of Oklahoma)Leonard Parker (University of Wisconsin)Ue-Li Pen (CITA)Lev Pogosian (Tufts University)David Reid (Eastern Michigan University)Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin)Joseph Silk (Oxford University)Doug Spolyar (Santa Cruz)Leo Stodolsky (Max Planck, Munich)Mark Trodden (Syracuse University)Jan Pieter van der Schaar (CERN)Tanmay Vachaspati (CWRU)Yun Wang (University of Oklahoma)Risa Wechsler (University of Chicago)Lucy Zhang (University of Toronto)Trapped Ion Quantum Computing, May 13-15, 2004Dana Berkeland (Los Alamos)Rainer Blatt (Innsbruck, Austria)Michael Chapman (Georgia Tech)Isaac Chuang (MIT)Ignacio Cirac (MPQ-Munich)


Michael Drewsen (Aarhus, Denmark)Patrick Gill (NPL, Teddington, UK)Wolfgang Lange (MPQ-Munich)Gerard Milburn (Queensland)Andrew Steane (Oxford, UK)David Wineland (NIST-Boulder)Christoph Wunderlich (Hamburg, Germany)Peter Zoller (Innsbruck, Austria)Building Computational Devices using Coherent Control, June 7-9, 2004Zohar Amitay (Technion)Paul Brumer (Toronto)Charles Conover (Colby)Neil Gershenfeld (MIT)Navin Khaneja (Harvard)Jeff Kimble (Caltech)Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University)Jeffrey Krause (Florida)Mikhail Lukin (Harvard)Hideo Mabuchi (Caltech)Mark Raizen (Texas)Chitra Rangan (Windsor)Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP, Harvard)Dvira Segal (Weizmann)Tamar Seideman (Northwestern)Zhenia Shapiro (NRC)Aephraim Steinberg (Toronto)David Tannor (Weizmann)Young String Theorists Visitor Program:Marcus Berg (KITP), March 17 - 30, 2004Keshav Dasgupta (Stanford), February 9-14, 2004Aki Hashimoto (Wisconsin), January 12-18, 2004Neil Constable (MIT), November 17-23, 2003Frank Ferrari (Neuchatel/IAS), April 12-17, 2004Pietro Grassi (Stony Brook), October 5-10, 2003Chris Herzog (KITP), January 25-February 6, 2004Veronika Hubeny (Stanford), December 1-6, 2003Joanna Karczmarek (Harvard), October 6-12, 2003John McGreevy (Princeton), October 23-31, 2003Partha Mukhopadhyay (Kentucky), September 15-30, 2003Kazumi Okuyama (Chicago), November 17-23, 2003Andrei Starinets (Washington), October 29-31, 2003Tadashi Takayanagi (Harvard), March 1-15, 2004


Diana Vaman (Princeton), January 25-February 6, 2004

2.4 Postdoctoral Fellows

The MCTP received over 500 applications for the postdoctoral positions advertisedin Physics Today.

This year the Executive Committee (EC) decided to fund three MCTP postdocpositions, one each in the three areas

(i) high energy/string theory,

(ii) astrophysics/cosmology,

(iii) interdisciplinary/statistical/optics/nonlinear/etc.

Position (i) has been filled by Jason Kumar from UC San Diego, and position (ii)has been filled by Dejan Stojkovic from the University of Alberta, and position(iii) has been filled at 50% by Dr. Nikola Petrov, an Assistant Professor in the UMDepartment of Mathematics (with 1–1 teaching duties).

The remaining 50% for position for (iii) will be spent on a focused visitorprogram in condensed matter, interdisciplinary, statistical, optical, nonlinear, etc.physics. The idea here is to bring in several visitors (each for about a week) to speakto and interact with MCTP members and the broader UM research community.

2.5 Graduate student fellowships

Rui Zhang (Berman)Andrew Eppig (Mrenna)

In addition, as noted below, the committee approved $159,204 over the period2003–2006 to support graduate students on the NSF grant “Fronts, fluctuations andgrowth”.

2.6 Undergraduate research scholars

Joseph Paul (Tomozawa)Sammeer Walavalkar (Krisch/Neal)Jacob Bourjaily (Krisch/Neal)Michael Borysow (Krisch/Neal)Chris Hayward (Krisch/Neal)Sara Kasun (Evrard)Erwin Lau (Mckay)


2.7 Successful proposals

The Committee received 25 proposals for various activities and, after careful con-sideration, recommended the following for approval by the Physics Department:

COMPUTING

Computing (Computing Committee)MCTP Computer Manager

$37,000

VISITORS

Visitor program for young string theorists(Larsen, Liu, Pando-Zayas) $20,000

AMO/Condensed Matter visitor program $29,000Laura Merseni, two weeks (Freese) $1,890Zenbing Chen, 6 months (Duan) $8,250Christophe Grojean, 1 year 25% (Wells) $15,000Geraldine Servant, 1 year @ 25% (Wells) $15,000Estaban Moro, 1 month (Doering) $3,780Giovanni Rossi, 1 month (Sander) $5,180Cesar Escalante, 1 year 33% (Freese) $9,000

Visitors total $107,100

COST SHARING

“NSF Grant: Fronts Fluctuations and Growth”(Doering, Conlon, Sander, Smereka, Ziff)$51,009 less indirect costs $38,000

In addition the committee approved $53,144 for the fiscal year 2004–2005 and$55,271 for the fiscal year 2005–2006. These funds will support graduate students.

WORKSHOPS

“Quantum Applications Symposium”, August 2004(Monroe) $15,000“The Dark Side of the Universe”, Spring 2004(Evrard, Freese, McKay, Tarle) $45,000“String Phenomenology 2004”, 1–6 August 2004(Kane, Wells) $5,000“TBA”, (Duff)* $25,000

Workshops total $90,000

* The committee subsequently approved $20,000 instead of $25,000 for “TheStatus of M-theory plus Deserfest” conference.


In addition the committee approved another $15,000 for the Quantum Appli-cations Symposium and another $40,000 for Strings Phenomenology 2004 for fiscalyear 2004–2005.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Rui Zhang (Berman) $14,000Andrew Eppig (Mrenna) $2,196

Graduate students total $16,196In addition, as noted above, the committee approved $159,204 over the period

2003–2006 to support graduate students on the NSF grant.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Joseph Paul (Tomozawa) $1925Sammeer Walavalkar (Krisch/Neal) $1925Jacob Bourjaily (Krisch/Neal) $1925Michael Borysow (Krisch/Neal) $1925Chris Hayward (Krisch/Neal) $1925Sara Kasun (Evrard) $1925Erwin Lau (Mckay) $1925

Undergraduate research total $13,475

TOTAL

$301,771

2.8 Outreach and media coverage

There were the following MCTP public lectures:“The New Cosmology and its Challenge to Fundamental Physicss”, Mark Trod-

den, (Syracuse University), Tuesday, May 18, 2004.“Did Life Come from Mars?”, Paul Davies (Macquarie University), Friday, April

16, 2004.In addition, the MCTP hosted receptions for Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees

prior to the Ta-You Wu Lecture:“Where is Cosmology Going?” Sir Martin Rees (University of Cambridge),

Wednesday, November 12, 2003.and for Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin prior to the Ford Motor Company

Distinguished Lecture in Physics:“The Emergent Age”, Robert Laughlin (Stanford University), Wednesday, March

31, 2004.The MCTP is committed to public lectures and other outreach activities:Fred Adams: Ask Astro Column: ”How do we know if the stars are still there,

since it takes millions of years for the light to reach us?” Astronomy, 2004.


Katie Freese: Isaac Asimov Memorial Panel Debate on April 21, 2004.Paul Berman: A judge at the Forsythe Middle School Science Fair, 2002-2004.Paul Berman: Physics Olympiad, 2002-2004.Fred Adams: Invited plenary speaker and public lecture for the 2004 Ohio

Section Meeting of the American Physical Society: Extragalactic Astrophysics andthe New Era of High-Energy Astronomy, Athens, Ohio, April 2004.

Paul Hughes: A minicourse of three lectures on astronomy for the SoutheasternMichigan Elderwise program, 2000-2004.

Fred Adams: Public Lecture, “Distinguished Authors in Astronomy” LectureSeries, Hayden Planetarium, New York, New York, March 2004.

Fred Adams: Public Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March2004.

Fred Adams: Public Lecture, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana,January 2004.

Fred Adams: Public Lecture, meeting of the University LowBrow Astronomers,Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 2004.

Fred Adams: Public Lecture, Cosmic Origins Lecture Series, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 2003.

Fred Adams: Public Lecture for the MENSA Society of Southeastern Michi-gan, Southfield, Michigan, August 2003.

Fred Adams: “Die Zukunft des Universums: Quo Vadis Universum?” (on thefuture of the universe), ETH Zurich-journal BULLETIN, pp. 46-49, August 2003.

In addition, members of the MCTP enjoyed the following media coverage:Fred Adams: Radio Interview for KALX (U. C. Berkeley) – on the book

Origins of Existence: How life emerged in the universe, May 2004.Fred Adams: Radio interview for the launch of Gravity Probe B, April 2004.Fred Adams: Interview for WUOM/NPR (Morning Edition) on the discovery

of “The Cosmic Jerk”, October 2003.

2.9 The 2003–2004 budget (projected)

Time period: 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004Income:LS&A $400,000Physics $50,000Cost recovery from overcharges $64,409Cost recovery from Quantum Applications Symposium $15,000Unspent “CP violation” funds $21,031Unspent “Extra Dimensions” funds $9,738Unspent “Time-dependent” funds $1,763Surplus from 2002–2003 $41,560TOTAL $603,501


Expenditure:MCTP Brochure $17,515Secretaries $26,864Computing $37,074Cost sharing $48,692Visitor programs $138,5782.5 MCTP Postdoctoral Fellows $137,531Postdoctoral travel $5,005MCTP Graduate Student Fellowships $10,3417 MCTP Undergraduate Research Scholars $7,513“String Phenomenology 2004” conference $10,000“Dark Side of the Universe” workshop $45,000“Status of M-theory plus Deserfest” conference $20,000“Coherent Control” workshop $3,000“Ion-trap Quantum Computing” workshop $7,500“Great Lakes Cosmology” workshop $5,000“Baryogenesis” workshop $1,168Office furniture/painting $7,765Office supplies $4,524Discretionary funds $10,987TOTAL $544,057SURPLUS $59,444

3 Fiscal Year: 2004-2005

3.1 Conferences and workshops

The MCTP will hold the following workshops and conferences in 2004-2005:

“String Phenomenology 2004” international conference - August 1-6, 2004”“100th Anniversary Celebration of the Birth of John von Neumann”, September2004“Modeling Cancer” workshop, May 2005“The Future of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters”, conference, Winter 2005

3.2 Visitors

M. Pinard and A. Dantan, two week visits each (Berman)Xuedong Hu, J.Q. You, Todd Tilma, Ciro Cattuto, and Fabio Marchesoni (Nori)Young String Theorists Visitor Program (Liu, Larsen, Pando-Zayas)Shi-Liang Zhu, two months,and Lian-Ao Wu,one month, (Duan)Baruch Meerson (Sander)M. Perry, four months (Kane)


3.3 Graduate student fellowships

Michael Busha (Adams, Evrard, Bloch)Porscha McRobbie (Moukouri)J. Bourjaily, M. Fischer, and T. Bodiya (Wells)TBA (Savit)

3.4 Undergraduate research scholars

K. Alatalo (Akerlof)K. Beverlein (Tarle)K. Edwards (McKay)S. Kasun (Evrard)A. Povilus (Raithel)R. Schabinger (Wells)R. Wilson (Gerdes)R. Vega-Morales (Geva)

3.5 Postdoctoral fellows

This year the Executive Committee (EC) decided to fund three MCTP postdocpositions, one each in the three areas

(i) cancer modeling,

(ii) coherent control, quantum computing,

(iii) non-linear dynamics,

Position (i) has been filled by Evgeniy Khain from the Racah Institute, and position(ii) has been filled by Shi Liang Zhu from the ISI Institute and will be funded 50%by FOCUS, and for position (iii) Dr. Nikola Petrov, an Assistant Professor in theUM Department of Mathematics will continue at 50% (with 1–1 teaching duties).

3.6 Successful proposals

The MCTP Executive Committee received 19 proposals for various scientific activ-ities and, after careful consideration, has recommended the following for approvalby the Physics Department:

COMPUTING

Computing (Computing Committee)MCTP Computer Manager $22,000


VISITORS

M. Pinard and A. Dantan, two week each (Berman) MG-04-02 $3,000Xuedong Hu, J.Q. You, Todd Tilma, Ciro Cattuto,

and Fabio Marchesoni (Nori) MG-04-03 $5,000Young String Theorists Visitor Program

(Larsen, Liu, Pando-Zayas) MG-04-09 $8,000Shi-Liang Zhu, two months; Lian-Ao Wu,

one month (Duan) MG-04-13 $7,000Baruch Meerson, Fall 2004 (Sander) $6,600M. Perry, four months (Kane) MG-04-19 $11,100N. Petrov, one year @ 50% (Doering) MG-04-08 $22,500

Visitors total $63,200

COST SHARING

“NSF Grant: Fronts Fluctuations and Growth”(Doering, Conlon, Sander, Smereka, Ziff)$51,009 less indirect costs* $38,000“NASA Grant” (Adams)* $21,000ADVANCE: Visitor Prgram for young women string theorists(Larsen, Liu, Pando-Zayas) $5,000

Cost sharing total $64,000

*The committee approved $159,204 over the period 2003–2006 to support gradu-ate students on the NSF grant and $63,000 over the period 2004-2007 on the NASAgrant.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

“Modeling Cancer” workshop (Sander) MG-04-12 $25,000“2004 String Phenomenology” Conference, August 2004,

(Wells, Kane) MG-04-06* $20,000“The Future of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters”conference,

Winter 2005, (Evrard) MG-04-14 $5,000“Deserfest: A Celebration of the Life and Works of Stanley Deser”

and “The Status of M-theory” conference supplementalfunds, April 2004, (Duff, Liu) MG-04-15 $5,000

“100th Anniversary Celebration of the Birth ofJohn von Neumann”, September 2004 (Simon) MG-04-07 $7,000

Workshops total $62,000

*$35,000 also allocated in previous year.


GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Michael Busha (Adams, Evrard, Bloch) MG-04-01 $12,000Porscha McRobbie (Moukouri) MG-04-11 $12,000J. Bourjaily, M. Fischer, and T. Bodiya (Wells) MG-04-17 $45TBA (Savit) MG-04-18 $3,500

Graduate students total $27,545In addition, as noted above, the committee approved $159,204 over the period

2003–2006 to support graduate students on the NSF grant and $63,00 on the NASAgrant.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

K. Alatalo (Akerlof) $2,000K. Beverlein (Tarle) $2,000K. Edwards (McKay) $2,000S. Kasun (Evrard) $2,000A. Povilus (Raithel) $2,000R. Schabinger (Wells) $2,000R. Wilson (Gerdes) $2,000R. Vega-Morales (Geva) $2,000Covered by grant MG-04-05 (Wells)

Undergraduate research total $16,000

TOTAL

$254,745

3.7 The 2004-2005 budget (projected)

Time period: 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005Income:LS&A $400,000Physics $50,000Surplus from 2003–2004 $59,444TOTAL $509,444


Expenditure:Secretaries $34,000Computing $22,000Cost sharing $64,000Visitor programs $71,4502.5 MCTP Postdoctoral Fellows $135,000Postdoctoral travel $7,000MCTP Graduate Student Fellowships $41,5458 MCTP Undergraduate Research Scholars $16,000“String Phenomenology 2004” $55,000“Status of M-theory plus Deserfest” conference $5,000“von Neumann Anniversary” conference $7,000“Modeling Cancer” workshop $25,000“Future of Cosmology” conference $5,000Office furniture $1,000Office supplies $4,000Discretionary funds $7,000TOTAL $499,995SURPLUS $9,449

4 Acknowledgments

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Executive Committee: Jim Liu,Bob Savit, Gus Evrard and Charlie Doering, as well as members of the other MCTPcommittees, for their wisdom and hard work. Thanks are also due to the MCTPsecretaries, Angela Milliken and Ricah Marquez, to the Computer Manager, AlexBatrachenko, and to Jim Liu for his advice and assistance.


A Actual budget for fiscal year: 2002–2003

Time period: 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003Income:LS&A $400,000Physics $50,000Surplus from 2001–2002 $72,414TOTAL $522,414

Expenditure:*Secretaries at 40% $14,418Computing $29,805Discretionary funds $6,122Visitor program $78,6921.5 MCTP Postdoctoral fellows $60,825Postdoctoral travel $5,6097 MCTP Graduate Student Fellowships $95,1255 MCTP Undergraduate Research Scholars $17,456Fringe Benefits $37,244“Quantum Computing” workshop $8,420“Time-Dependent” workshop $20,000“QCD and Strings” workshop $30,000“Cosmology” workshop $21,000“Baryogenesis” workshop $30,000“Quantum Applications Symposium” (encumbered) $15,000Workshop video taping $3,000Office furniture $2,473Office supplies $5,665TOTAL $480,854SURPLUS $41,560

B Proposal

The original MCTP proposal may be found on the web :http://www.umich.edu/%7Emctp/membership.html

C Bylaws

The MCTP bylaws may be found on the web :http://www.umich.edu/%7Emctp/membership.html

D Membership list

D.1 Full members

C. Akerlof (Physics)


F. Adams (Physics)R. Akhoury (Physics)P. Berman (Physics)J. Bregman (Astronomy)P. Bucksbaum (Physics)D. Burns (Mathematics)T. Chupp (Physics)C. Doering (Mathematics)I. Dolgachev (Mathematics)M. Duff (Physics)M. Einhorn (Physics)G. Estabrook (Biology)A. Evrard (Physics)M. Falk (Materials Science and Engineering)P. Federbush (Mathematics)G. Ford (Physics)J. Fornaes (Mathematics)K. Freese (Physics)D. Gerdes (Physics)E. Geva (Chemistry)K. Hecht (Physics)P. Horja (Mathematics)P. Hughes (Astronomy)G. Kane (Physics)S. Krimm (Biophysics)J. Krisch (Physics)F. Larsen (Physics)R. Lewis (Physics)J. Liu (Physics)T. McKay (Physics)C. Monroe (Physics)S. Moukouri (Physics)S. Mrenna (Fermilab)H. Neal (Physics)M. Newman (Physics)F. Nori (Physics)L. Pando Zayas (Physics)G. Raithel (Physics)D. Richstone (Astronomy)B. Roe (Physics)L. Sander (Physics)R. Savit (Physics)C. Simon (Complex Systems)


J. Smoller (Mathematics)R. Spatzier (Mathematics)G. Tarle (Physics)A. Tkachenko (Chemical Engineering)Y. Tomozawa (Physics)A. Uribe (Mathematics)J. Vandermeer (Biology)M. Veltman (Physics)J. Wells (Physics)D. Williams (Physics)J. Wilson (Philosophy)H. Winful (Electrical Engineering)A. Wu (Physics)E. Yao (Physics)R. Ziff (Chemical Engineering)M. Zochowski (Physiology)

D.2 Associate members

L. Anguelova (Physics)K. Augustyn (Research & Development)J. Baker (Physics)A. Batrachenko (Physics)J. Bernstein (Astronomy)J. Bialek (Physics)B. Blinov (Physics)F. Bookstein (Gerontology)J. Bourjaily (Physics)M. Brehob (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences)B. Burrington (Physics)J. Chapman (Physics)Y. Chushak (Chemistry)J. Conlon (Mathematics)J. Davis (Physics)M. Deutsch (Physics)T. Donohue (Physics)B. Dubetsky (Physics)G. Flynn (Pharmacy)T. Foth (Mathematics)R. Freeling (Advanced Information Services)D. Garfinkle (Oakland University)E. Glass (University of Windsor)A. Greenspoon (Mathematical Reviews)


C. Grojean (Physics)P. Ion (Mathematical Reviews)L. Ji (Mathematics)S. King (Physics)R. Krasny (Mathematics)J. Krick (Astronomy)J. Kumar (Physics)D. Li (Physics)Y. Li (Physics)R. Lindner (History)J. Lu (Physics)S. Malinovskava (FOCUS)V. Malinovsky (FOCUS)D. Manna (Physics)F. Marchesoni (Physics)D. Maxwell (Romance Languages and Literature)F. Mayer (Mayer Applied Research, Inc.)R. McNees (Physics)L. Moffatt (Physics)T. O’Donnell (Physics)L. Okun (Physics)D. Oros (Physics)S. Ovshinsky (Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.)I. Ovshinsky (spouse)A. Pawl (Physics)A. Petrov (Physics)N. Petrov (Physics/Math)C. Rangan (Physics)M. Ross (Physics)M. Ryan (School of Information)I. Salmeen (Ford Motor Co.)K. Schneider (Physics)C. Search (Physics)Q. Shi (Chemistry)P. Smereka (Mathematics)N. Soparkar (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences)R. Stanec (Astronomy)D. Stojkovic (Physics)K. Tobe (Physics)L. Velasco-Sevilla (Physics)T. Wang (Physics)C. Warren (Physics)R. Wechsler (Physics)


S. Wen (Physics)R.-J. Zhang (Physics)W. Zhou (Physics)

E Postdocs, graduate students and long-term vis-itors

E.1 Postdocs

L. AnguelovaJ. KumarS. MalinovskyV. MalinovskyR. McNeesN. PetrovC. RanganQ. ShiD. StojkovicK. TobeL. Velasco-SevillaR. WechslerR.-J. Zhang

E.2 Graduate students

J. BakerA. BatrachenkoJ. BialekB. BlinovJ. BourjailyB. BurringtonJ. DavisD. LiY. LiD. MannaL. MoffattD. OrosA. PawlC. SearchT. WangC. WarrenS. WenW. Zhou


E.3 Long-term visitors

Jianxin LuZenbing ChenChristophe GrojeanBaruch MeersonMalcolm PerryGeraldine ServantCesar Escalante

E.4 Computer manager

A. Batrachenko

E.5 Secretaries

R. MarquezA. Milliken

F Committees

F.1 Executive Committee of the MCTP

M.J. Duff (Director)A. Bloch (Interdisciplinary)A. Evrard (Astrophysics/Relativity/Cosmology)J. Liu (Particle Theory)F. Nori (Condensed Matter/AMO/Biophysics)

F.2 Computing

A. BatrachenkoA. EvrardJ. Liu (Chair)F. Nori

F.3 Diversity

K. Freese (Chair)J. KrischL. Pando-Zayas

F.4 Facilities

P. BermanA. Milliken (Chair)


F.5 Undergraduate research

J. Wells (Chair)F. Nori

G Publications

MCTP-00-01 M. J. Duff, State of the Unification Address

MCTP-00-02 M. Cvetic, M. J. Duff, James T. Liu, H. Lu, C. N. Pope, K. S. Stelle,Randall-Sundrum Brane Tensions

MCTP-00-03 D’Anna, Nori, Critical Dynamics of Burst Instabilities in the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect

MCTP-00-04 Reichhardt, Olson, Nori, Wigner Crystal Dynamics

MCTP-00-05 Olson, Nori, Effects of Columnar and Point Defects on Magnetic Hys-teresis Curves Produced by 3-dimensional Vortices in Layered Super-conductors

MCTP-00-06 Y.-L. Lin, Nori, Feynman Path-Integral Analytical Studies of Quan-tum Interference for Superconducting Networks and Josephson Junc-tion Arrays in Magnetic Fields

MCTP-00-07 Thomas Dent, CP violation and target-space modular invariance

MCTP-00-08 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, Ricci-flat Metric,Harmonic Forms and Brane Resolutions

MCTP-00-09 R. Akhoury, H. Wang, O. Yakovlev, Higgs Boson Production inPhoton-Photon Collisions

MCTP-00-10 Oleg Yakovlev and Stefan Groote, On t anti-t threshold and top quarkmass definition

MCTP-00-11 A. Akhoury, H. Wang, O. Yakovlev, On large logarithms in Higgs→γγ decay

MCTP-00-12 C. Cattuto, G. Costantini, T. Guidi, F. Marchesoni, Linear Stringsin Solids

MCTP-00-13 Oleg Yakovlev, On Higgs Production in photon photon Collisions[the contribution to the Linear Collider Workshop 2000, Fermilab,October 2000]

MCTP-00-14 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and Arkady A. Tseytlin, 3-Branes on Spaceswith R× S2 × S3 Topology


MCTP-00-15 R.-G. Cai, J. X. Lu and Y.-S. Wu, The Galilean Nature of V-dualityfor Noncommutative Open String and Yang-Mills Theories

MCTP-00-16 C. Cattuto, G. Costantini, T. Guidi, F. Marchesoni, Driven Kinks inDiscrete Chains: Phonon Radiation

MCTP-00-17 R.G. Cai, J. X. Lu, N. Ohta, S. Roy, Y. S. Wu, OM Theory andV-duality

MCTP-00-18 M. Cvetic, G. W. Gibbons, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, SupersymmetricNon-singular Fractional D2-branes and NS-NS 2-branes

MCTP-00-19 C. Olson, C. Reichhardt, B. Janko, and F. Nori, Collective Interaction-Driven Ratchet for Transporting Flux Quanta

MCTP-00-20 S. Zaroubi (MPA), G. Squires (Caltech), G. de Gasperis (Roma), A.Evrard (UMich), Y. Hoffman (HU), J. Silk (Oxford), DeprojectionGalaxy Cluster X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Temperature Decrementand Weak Lensing Mass Maps

MCTP-00-21 John J. Bialek, August E. Evrard, Joseph J. Mohr, Effects of Pre-heating on X-ray Scaling Relations in Galaxy Clusters

MCTP-00-22 N. Yoshida, J. Colberg, S. D. M. White, A. E. Evrard, T. J. MacFar-land, H. M. P. Couchman, A. Jenkins, C. S. Frenk, F. R. Pearce, G.Efstathiou, J. A. Peacock, P. A. Thomas (The Virgo Consortium),Simulations of Deep Pencil-Beam Redshift Surveys

MCTP-00-23 G. Mark Voit, August E. Evrard, Greg L. Bryan, Confusion of DiffuseObjects in the X-ray Sky

MCTP-00-24 Klaus Dolag, August Evrard, Matthias Bartelmann, The temperature-mass relation in magnetized galaxy clusters

MCTP-01-01 J. X. Lu, (1 + p)-Dimensional Open D(p− 2) Brane Theories

MCTP-01-02 Lisa Everett, Gordon L. Kane, Stefano Rigolin, Lian-Tao Wang, Im-plications of Muon g − 2 for Supersymmetry and for Discovering Su-perpartners at Fermilab

MCTP-01-03 Gerald Paul, Robert M. Ziff, H. Eugene Stanley, Percolation thresh-old, Fisher exponent, and shortest path exponent in 4 and 5 dimen-sions

MCTP-01-04 M. E. J. Newman and Robert M. Ziff, A fast Monte Carlo algorithmfor site or bond percolation

MCTP-01-05 Christian D. Lorenz and Robert M. Ziff, Excess number of percolationclusters on the surface of a sphere


MCTP-01-06 F.A. Dilkes, M.J. Duff, James T. Liu and H. Sati, Quantum M → 0discontinuity for massive gravity with a Lambda term

MCTP-01-07 A. Buchel, C.P. Herzog, I.R. Klebanov, L.A. Pando Zayas and A.A.Tseytlin, Non-Extremal Gravity Duals For Fractional D3-Branes OnThe Conifold

MCTP-01-08 J.P. Krisch and E.N. Glass, Critical Exponents For Schwarzschild-Kerr and BTZ Systems

MCTP-01-09 M.F. Laguna, C.A. Balseiro, D. Dominguez, F. Nori, Vortex structureand dynamics in kagome and triangular pinning potentials

MCTP-01-10 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, Hyper-Kahler Cal-abi Metrics, L2 Harmonic Forms, Resolved M2-branes and AdS4/CFT3

Correspondence

MCTP-01-11 Philip E. Hardee, Philip A. Hughes, Alexander Rosen, Enrique A.Gomez, Relativistic Jet Response to Precession and Wave-Wave In-teractions

MCTP-01-12 Martin B. Einhorn and Jose Wudka, Model Independent Analysis ofgµ − 2

MCTP-01-13 J. Granot, M. Miller, T. Piran, W.-M. Suen, P. A. Hughes, LightCurves from an Expanding Relativistic Jet

MCTP-01-14 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, New CompleteNon-compact Spin(7) Manifolds

MCTP-01-15 J.P. Krisch and E.N. Glass, Dimension in a Radiative Stellar Atmo-sphere

MCTP-01-16 Daniel J. H. Chung, Patrick Crotty, Edward W. Kolb, Antonio Ri-otto, On the gravitational production of superheavy dark matter

MCTP-01-17 Michael F. Bruist and Eric Myers, Discrete and Continuous Mathe-matical Models of DNA Branch Migration

MCTP-01-18 M. J. Duff, James T. Liu and H. Sati, Quantum M2 → 2Λ/3 discon-tinuity for massive gravity with a Λ term

MCTP-01-19 D. K. Park, Hidden functional relation in Large-N Quark-MonopoleSystem at finite temperature

MCTP-01-20 Martin B. Einhorn and Jose Wudka, Effective β-functions for Effec-tive Field Theory

MCTP-01-21 M. Cvetic, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, Massless 3-branes in M-theory


MCTP-01-22 O.Yakovlev, R.Rueckl, S. Weinzierl, Exclusive Amplitudes from LightCone Sum Rules

MCTP-01-23 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, New CohomogeneityOne Metrics With Spin(7) Holonomy

MCTP-01-24 Sheldon, E., McKay, T., et al., Weak Lensing Measurements of 42SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters

MCTP-01-25 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, M3-branes on a NewClass of G2 Manifolds and Universality of Pseudo-supersymmetry

MCTP-01-26 Jan Pieter van der Schaar, The Reduced Open Membrane Metric

MCTP-01-27 M. J. Duff, The Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Annual Re-port 2000–2001

MCTP-01-28 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, James T. Liu, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, ANew Fractional D2-brane and T-duality

MCTP-01-29 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, Resolved Branesand M-theory on Special Holonomy Spaces

MCTP-01-30 J. Q. You and Franco Nori, Quantum computing with Josephsoncharge qubits in a quantum electrodynamic cavity

MCTP-01-31 Katherine Freese and Paolo Gondolo, On the Direct Detection ofExtragalactic WIMPs

MCTP-01-32 Y.G. Miao, H.J.W. Muller-Kirsten, D.K. Park, Actions in D = 2(p+1) Spacetime Dimensions

MCTP-01-33 Leopoldo Pando Zayas, A Deformation of 3-Branes and its GaugeTheory Dual

MCTP-01-34 D.K. Park, Hungsoo Kim, Y.G. Miao, H.J. Muller-Kirsten, Randall-Sundrum Scenario at Nonzero Temperature

MCTP-01-35 Edward Glass, A Conserved Bach Current

MCTP-01-36 G.L. Kane, Lian-Tao Wang, James D. Wells, Supersymmetry and theposition excess in cosmic rays

MCTP-01-37 T. Abe, M. Peskin, O. Yakovlev, et al., Linear Collider Physics Re-source Book for Snowmass 2001

MCTP-01-38 G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, C.N. Pope and K.S. Stelle, Supersymmetricdomain walls from metrics of special holonomy

MCTP-01-39 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, CohomogeneityOne Manifolds of Spin(7) and G2 Holonomy


MCTP-01-40 Yukio Tomozawa, Axisymmetric Galaxy Distribution and the Centerof the Universe

MCTP-01-41 D.K. Park, Compromise of Localized Graviton with a Small Cosmo-logical Constant in Randall-Sundrum Scenario

MCTP-01-42 G.L. Kane and S.F. King, Supersymmetric Inflation, Matter, andDark Energy

MCTP-01-43 Baltz, Edsjo, Freese, and Gondolo, The Cosmic Ray Positron Excessand Neutralino Dark Matter

MCTP-01-44 A.E. Evrard, et al., Galaxy Clusters in Hubble Volume Simulations:Cosmological Constraints from Sky Survey Populations

MCTP-01-45 M.J. Duff, L.B. Okun, and G. Veneziano, Trialogue on the numberof fundamental constants

MCTP-01-46 Roberto Vega and Jose Wudka, Static neutrino properties in the pres-ence of a large magnetic field

MCTP-01-47 Thomas Dent, Breaking CP and supersymmetry with orbifold modulidynamics

MCTP-01-48 James T. Liu and W.Y. Wen, Exact multi-membrane solutions inAdS7

MCTP-01-49 Thomas Dent, Baryogenesis with four-fermion operations in low-scalemodels

MCTP-01-50 Thomas Dent, On the modular invariance of mass eigenstates andCP violation

MCTP-01-52 D.K. Park, S. Tamaryan, H.J.W. Muller-Kirsten, D2-branes withmagnetic flux in the presence of RR fields

MCTP-01-54 D.K. Park, Hungsoo Kim, S. Tamaryan, Nonvanishing CosmologicalConstant of Flat Universe in Brane-Worlds Scenario

MCTP-01-55 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, Orientifolds andSlumps in G2 and Spin(7) Metrics

MCTP-01-56 Daniel Chung and Katherine Freese, Lensed Density Perturbationsin Braneworlds

MCTP-01-58 S. Rigolin, L. Everett, G.L. Kane, Lian-Tao Wang, and Ting Wang,Alternative approach to b→ sγ in the unconstrained MSSM

MCTP-01-59 S. Rigolin, Update of Golden measurements at a Neutrino Factory


MCTP-01-60 M. Duff, The world in eleven dimensions: a tribute to Oskar Klein

MCTP-01-61 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, M-theory conifolds

MCTP-01-62 J.P. Krisch and E.N. Glass, Adding Twist to Anisotropic Fluids

MCTP-01-63 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, A G2 Unificationof the Deformed and Resolved Conifolds

MCTP-01-64 Daniel Chung and Thomas Dent, Baryogenesis through higher di-mensional operators and spacetime

MCTP-01-65 Thomas Dent and Malcolm Fairbairn, Time-varying coupling strengths,nuclear forces and unification

MCTP-02-01 M.J. Duff, M-theory on manifolds of G2 holonomy: the first twentyyears

MCTP-02-02 Katherine Freese and Matt Lewis, Cardassian Expansion: A Modelin which the Universe is Flat, Matter Dominated, and Accelerating

MCTP-02-03 L. Everett, G. Kane, S. King, S. Rigolin, and L. Wang, Pati-SalamModels and Intersecting D Branes

MCTP-02-04 Martin B. Einhorn, Instanton of Type IIB Supergravity in Ten Di-mensions

MCTP-02-05 H. Lu and J.F. Vazquez-Poritz, Resolution of overlapping branes

MCTP-02-06 Ioannis Giannakis, James Liu, and Hai-cang Ren, Angular Momen-tum Mixing in Crystalline Color Superconductivity

MCTP-02-07 G. Kane, L. Wang, and T. Wang, Supersymmetry and the CosmicRay Positron Excess

MCTP-02-08 Gordon Kane, TASI LECTURES: Weak Scale Supersymmetry — ATop-Motivated-Bottom-Up Approach

MCTP-02-09 F. Larsen, J.P. van der Schaar, and R.G. Leigh, De Sitter Holographyand the Cosmological Microwave Background

MCTP-02-10 Philip A. Hughes, Mark A. Miller, G. Comer Duncan, 3D Hydrody-namics Simulations of Relativistic Extragalactic Jets

MCTP-02-11 Leopoldo Pando Zayas and Jacob Sonnenschein, Penrose Limits andNonconformal Field Theories

MCTP-02-12 H. Lu and J.F. Vazquez-Poritz, S1-wrapped D3-branes on Conifolds

MCTP-02-13 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, C.N. Pope, Almost special Holon-omy in Type IIA&M Theory


MCTP-02-14 Matthew Lewis and Katherine Freese, A Wavelet Analysis of SolarClimate forcing: 1 Solar Cycle

MCTP-02-15 M. Cvetic, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, Penrose Limit, PP-waves and De-formed M2-branes

MCTP-02-16 Marcela Carena, David Gerdes, Howard Haber, Andre Turcot, andPeter Zerwas, Executive Summary of the Snowmass 2001 WorkingGroup P1: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

MCTP-02-17 L.D. Paniak and R.J. Szabo, Instanton Expansion of Noncommuta-tive Gauge Theory in Two Dimensions

MCTP-02-18 M. Cvetic, H. Lu, and C.N. Pope, Supernumerary Supersymmetries,PP-Waves and Penrose Limits

MCTP-02-19 H. Lu and J.F. Vazquez-Poritz, Penrose Limits of Non-standard BraneIntersections

MCTP-02-20 Z.W. Chong, M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, C.N. Pope and P.Wagner, General Metrics of G2 Holonomy and Contraction Limits

MCTP-02-21 Leopoldo Pando Zayas and Diana Vaman, Comments on PenroseLimits of AdS5 x T 1,1 and Supersymmetry

MCTP-02-22 Hong Lu, New G2 Metric, D6-branes, and Lattice Universe

MCTP-02-23 Martin B. Einhorn and Jose Wudka, On the Vafa-Witten Theoremon Spontaneous Breaking of Parity

MCTP-02-24 Katherine Freese and Will Kinney, The Ultimate Fate of Life in anAccelerating Universe

MCTP-02-25 Steven Abel, Katherine Freese, and Ian Kogan, Hagedorn Inflation:Open Strings attached to Branes can drive inflation

MCTP-02-26 Eric Gimon, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and J. Sonnenschein, RG flowsand Penrose Limits

MCTP-02-27 M. J. Duff MCTP, Annual Report 2001-2002

MCTP-02-28 M. Cvetic, G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, Bianchi IX Self-dualEinstein Metrics and Singular G2 Manifolds

MCTP-02-30 Thomas Dent and Joaquim Silva-Marcos (CFIF/IST, Lisbon), A re-alistic formulation of approximate CP

MCTP-02-31 P.R. Berman, M. Ducloy, and D. Bloch, Free precession decay inselective reflection


MCTP-02-32 C.P. Search and P.R. Berman, Recoil-inducedresonances in ground-state, pump-probe spectroscopy

MCTP-02-33 C.P. Search, A.G. Rojo, and P.R. Berman, Ground state and quasi-particle spectrum of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

MCTP-02-34 B. Dubetsky and P.R. Berman, Spectrum of light scattering from anextended wave packet

MCTP-02-35 C.P. Search and P.R. Berman, Transferring the atom statistics of aBose-Einstein condensate to an optical field

MCTP-02-36 B. Dubetsky and P.R. Berman, Asymptotic atomic gratings producedby a large angle beam splitter

MCTP-02-37 B. Dubetsky and P.R. Berman, lambda/4, lambda/8, and higher or-der atom gratings via Raman transitions

MCTP-02-38 V. Malinovsky and P.R. Berman, Momentum transfer using chirpedstanding wave fields: Bragg scattering

MCTP-02-39 M.J. Duff, James T. Liu and H. Sati, Complementarity of the Mal-dacena and Karch-Randall Pictures

MCTP-02-40 G. L. Kane, J. Lykken, Brent Nelson, and Lian-Tao Wang, Re-examination of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Implications forLight superpartners

MCTP-02-41 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and Diana Vaman, Hagedorn Behavior ofStrings in Pp-wave

MCTP-02-42 S. Baek, P. Ko and W.Y. Song, SUSY breaking mediation mecha-nisms and (g − 2)µ, B → Xsγ, B → Xsl

+l− and Bs → µ+µ−

MCTP-02-43 M. J. Duff, Comment on time-varying fundamental constants

MCTP-02-44 Thomas Dent, Modular symmetry, twisted sector and flavour

MCTP-02-45 E. Gimon, L.A. Pando Zayas, J. Sonnenschein and M.J. Strassler, Astring theory of Hadrons via a Penrose Limit

MCTP-02-46 G. L. Kane, J. Lykken, S. Mrenna, B. D. Nelson, L.-T. Wang and T.T. Wang, Theory-Motivated Benchmark Models and Superpartnersat the Tevatron

MCTP-02-47 Martin B. Einhorn and Finn Larsen, Interacting Quantum Field The-ory in de Sitter Vacua

MCTP-02-48 Stephen P. Martin, James D. Wells, Super-conservative interpretationof muon g − 2 results applied to supersymmetry


MCTP-02-49 John Cardy and Robert Ziff, Exact results for the universal areadistribution of clusters in percolation, Ising and Potts models

MCTP-02-50 Paolo Gondolo and Katherine Freese, Dark Energy as InteractingDark Matter with Negative Pressure

MCTP-02-51 Jarah Evslin and Hisham Sati, SUSY vs E8 Gauge Theory in 11Dimensions

MCTP-02-52 Donald Marolf and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, On the SingularityStructure and the Stability of Plane Waves

MCTP-02-53 Andreas Birkedal-Hansen and Brent D. Nelson, Relic Neutralino Den-sities and Detection Rates with Nonuniversal Gaugino Masses

MCTP-02-54 Charles R. Doering, Carl Mueller and Peter Smereka, Interacting par-ticles, the stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscunov equa-tion, and duality

MCTP-02-55 J. D. Gibbon and Charles R. Doering, Intermittency in the Navier-Stokes equations

MCTP-02-56 James T. Liu, Braneworlds and Large Extra Dimensions

MCTP-02-57 Brent D. Nelson, Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Froma String Theory Perspective

MCTP-02-58 P. Ko, G. Kramer, Jae-hyeon Park, Large B0-B0 bar mixing, B →J/psi Ks and B → Xdγ in general MSSM

MCTP-02-59 Alex Buchel, Gauge/string correspondence in curved space

MCTP-02-60 Katherine Freese, Matthew Lewis, Jan Pieter van der Schaar, Obser-vational Tests of Open Strings in Braneworld Scenarios

MCTP-02-61 M.J. Duff, James T. Liu and H. Sati, Quantum discontinuity formassive spin 3/2 with a Lambda term

MCTP-02-62 Ioannis Giannakis, James T. Liu and Hai-cang Ren, Linearized grav-ity in the Karch-Randall braneworld

MCTP-02-63 M. Carena, J. Ellis, S. Mrenna, A. Pilaftsis, and C.E.M. Wagner,Collider Probes of the MSSM Higgs Sector with Explicit CP Violation

MCTP-02-64 James T. Liu, H. Lu and C.N. Pope, The Radion Mode in ConsistentBrane-World Reductions

MCTP-02-65 G.L.Kane, P. Ko, C. Kolda, Jae-Hyeon Park, Haibin Wang and Lian-Tao Wang, Bd → φKs and supersymmetry


MCTP-02-66 R. Akhoury, H. Wang, O. Yakovlev, On the Resummation of LargeQCD Corrections to γγ → bb̄

MCTP-02-68 Paul S. Aspinwall, R. Paul Horja, Robert L. Karp, Massless D-Braneson Calabi-Yau Threefolds and Monodromy

MCTP-02-69 A. Batrachenko, M. J. Duff and J. X. Lu, The membrane at the endof the (de Sitter) universe

MCTP-02-70 F. Larsen, A. Naqvi, and S. Terashima, Rolling Tachyons and Decay-ing Branes

MCTP-02-71 Martin B. Einhorn, Instantons and SL(2,R) Symmetry in Type IIBSupergravity

MCTP-02-72 Kazuhiro Tobe and James D. Wells, Revisiting Top-Bottom-TauYukawa Unification in Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories

MCTP-03-01 James T. Liu, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and Diana Vaman, On Hori-zons and Plane Waves

MCTP-03-02 A. C. T. Wu and Chen Ning Yang, Evolution of the Concept of theVector Potential in the Description of Fundamental Interactions

MCTP-03-04 Brandon Murakami and James D. Wells, Ancillary abelian symme-tries and the superpartner spectrum of anomaly-mediated supersym-metry breaking

MCTP-03-05 R. Akhoury and Y.-P. Yao, Minimal length uncertainty relations andthe hydrogen spectrum

MCTP-03-06 Alex Buchel, Compactifications of N = 2∗ flow

MCTP-03-07 A. Buchel and J. Walcher, The Tachyon does Matter

MCTP-03-08 L.D. Paniak and R.J. Szabo, Open Wilson Lines and Group Theoryof Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theory in Two Dimensions

MCTP-03-09 L.D. Paniak and R.J. Szabo, Lectures on two-dimensional noncom-mutative gauge theory: Classical aspects

MCTP-03-10 Steven Abel, Katherine Freese, and Ian I. Kogan, Hagedorn Inflation:Open Strings on Branes Can Drive Inflation

MCTP-03-11 M.J. Duff and James T. Liu, Hidden Spacetime Symmetries and Gen-eralized Holonomy in M-theory

MCTP-03-12 Juyong Park and Mark E.J. Newman, The origin of degree correla-tions in the Internet and other networks


MCTP-03-13 Fabrizio Gabbiani, Andrei I. Onishchenko, and Alexey A. Petrov, Λb

lifetime puzzle in heavy quark expansion

MCTP-03-14 J.P. Krisch and E.N. Glass, A Spacetime in Toroidal Coordinates, J.Math. Phys. (to appear)

MCTP-03-15 R. Akhoury and M. G. Sotiropoulos, The Large x Factorization ofthe Longitudinal Structure Function

MCTP-03-16 G.L. Kane, Brent D. Nelson, Lian-Tao Wang and Ting T. Wang,Phenomenology and Theory of Possible Light Higgs Bosons

MCTP-03-17 G. L. Kane, P. Ko, C. Kolda, J.-h. Park, H. Wang and L.-T. Wang,Bd → φKS CP asymmetries as an important probe of supersymmetry

MCTP-03-18 James T. Liu, W. A. Sabra and W. Y. Wen, Consistent reductions ofIIB*/M* theory and de Sitter supergravity

MCTP-03-19 Alex Buchel and Johannes Walcher, Comments on Supergravity de-scription of S-branes

MCTP-03-20 L.D. Paniak and R.J. Szabo, Lectures on two-dimensional noncom-mutative gauge theory II: Quantization

MCTP-03-21 T. H. van den Berg, C. R. Doering, D. Lohse and D. P. Lathrop,Smooth and rough boundaries in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow

MCTP-03-22 A. Alexakis, F. Petrelis, P. J. Morrison and C. R. Doering, Boundson dissipation in magnetodynamic Couette and Hartmann flows

MCTP-03-23 J. Otero, L.A. Dontcheva, H. Johnston, R.A. Worthing, A. Kurganov,G. Petrova and C.R. Doering, High Rayleigh number convection in afluid saturated porous layer

MCTP-03-24 Martin B. Einhorn and Finn Larsen, Squeezed States in the de SitterVacuum

MCTP-03-25 Alex Buchel and James T. Liu, Thermodynamics of the N = 2∗ flow

MCTP-03-26 Neil R. Constable and Finn Larsen, Rolling Tachyons as Matrix Mod-els

MCTP-03-27 Alex Buchel and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Hagedorn vs. Hawking-Page transition in string theory

MCTP-03-28 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and Diana Vaman, Hadronic Density ofStates from String Theory

MCTP-03-29 R. Guven, James T. Liu, C.N. Pope and E. Sezgin A la Recherche del’Espace Perdu: Fine Tuning and Six-Dimensional Gauged N=(1,0)Supergravity Vacua


MCTP-03-30 James D. Wells Implications of Supersymmetry Breaking with a LittleHierarchy between Gauginos and Scalarsars

MCTP-03-31 M. J. Duff MCTP Annual Report 2002-2003

MCTP-03-40 Mar Bastero-Gil, Katherine Freese, and Laura Mersini What canWMAP tell us about the very early universe? New physics as anexplanation of suppressed large scale power and running spectral in-dex

MCTP-03-32 J. Janecke, T.W. O’Donnell and V.I. Goldanskii Symmetry and pair-ing energies of atomic nuclei

MCTP-03-33 Matthew J. Lewis and Katherine Freese The Phase of the AnnualModulation as a Tool for Determining the WIMP Mass

MCTP-03-34 Brent D. Nelson Experimental Signatures of Kahler Stabilization ofthe Dilaton

MCTP-03-35 Joel Giedt and Brent D. Nelson Instanton Effects and Linear-ChiralDuality

MCTP-03-36 Pierre Binetruy, Andreas Birkedal-Hansen, Yann Mambrini and BrentD. Nelson Phenomenological Aspects of Heterotic Orbifold Models atOne Loop

MCTP-03-37 James T. Liu and W. A. Sabra Charged configurations in (A)dSspaces

MCTP-03-38 I. Gogoladze, Y. Mimura, S. Nandi and K. Tobe Test of Gauge-Yukawa Unification

MCTP-03-39 D.J.H.Chung, L.L.Everett, G.L.Kane, S.F.King, J.Lykken, and Lian-Tao Wang The Soft Supersymmetry-Breaking Lagrangian: Theoryand Applications

MCTP-03-41 Katherine Freese, Paolo Gondolo, and Heidi Jo Newberg Detectabil-ity of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles in the Sagittarius DwarfTidal Stream

MCTP-03-42 G.L.Kane, Christopher Kolda, and Jason Lennon B–¿ mu mu as aprobe of tan(beta) at the tevatron and LHC

MCTP-03-43 J. Kumar, A. Rajaraman Supergravity Solutions For AdS3xS3 Branes

MCTP-03-44 Kazuhiro Tobe, James D. Wells, Tsutomu Yanagida Neutrino-inducedlepton flavor violation in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking

MCTP-03-45 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Jacob Sonnenschein and Diana VamanRegge Trajectories Revisited in the Gauge/String Correspondence


MCTP-03-46 A. Ghinculov, T. Hurth, G. Isidori, and Y.-P. Yao New NNLL Resultson the Decay B → Xsl

+l−

MCTP-03-47 Ioannis Giannakis, James T. Liu, and Hai-cang Ren The Radion inthe Karch-Randall Braneworld

MCTP-03-48 Benjamin A. Burrington, James T. Liu Supersymmetry and the AdSHiggs Phenomenon

MCTP-03-49 John F. Gunion, Manuel Toharia, James D. Wells Precision Elec-troweak Data and the mixed Radion-Higgs sector of Warped ExtraDimensions

MCTP-03-50 Gordon L. Kane, Malcolm J. Perry, and Anna N. Zytkow A PossibleMechanism for Generating a Small Positive Cosmological Constant

MCTP-03-51 A. Pawl Decay of Affleck-Dine Condensates with Application to Q-balls

MCTP-03-52 A. Pawl Q-ball Formation in Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis with Gravity-mediated SUSY Breaking

MCTP-03-53 Alex Buchel and James T. Liu Universality of the shear viscosity insupergravity

MCTP-03-54 A. Ghinculov, T. Hurth, G. Isidori, Y.-P. Yao The Rare Decay ofB → Xsl

+l− to NNLL Precision for Arbitrary Dilepton Mass

MCTP-03-55 P. Binetruy, G.L.Kane, B.D.Nelson, L.-T. Wang, and T.T.Wang ¿FromIncomplete Data to Incomplete Theory

MCTP-03-56 Kazuhiro Tobe, James Wells Gravity-assisted exact unification inminimal supersymmetric SU(5) and its gaugino spectrum

MCTP-03-57 Z. Chacko, M. Graesser, C. Grojean, L. Pilo Massive Gravity on aBrane

MCTP-03-58 A. Batrachenko, M.J. Duff, James T. Liu and W.Y. Wen Generalizedholonomy of M-theory vacua

MCTP-03-59 A. Falkowski, C. Grojean, S. Pokorski Loop Corrections in HigherDimensions via Deconstruction

MCTP-03-60 C. Csaki, C. Grojean, J. Hubisz, Y. Shirman, J. Terning Fermions onan Interval: Quark and Lepton Masses without a Higgs

MCTP-03-6 Graham G. Ross, Liliana Velasco-Sevilla and Oscar Vives Sponta-neous CP violation and Non-Abelian Family Symmetry in SUSY


MCTP-03-62 G. Bertoldi, F. Bigazzi, A. Cotrone, C. Nunez and L. Pando ZayasOn the Universality Class of Certain String Theory Hadrons

MCTP-04-01 Johannes Kerimo, James T. Liu, H. Lu and C.N. Pope Supersymme-try of the new N = (1, 1) supergravity and Minkowski4 × S2 vacua

MCTP-04-02 L. Anguelova, M. Rocek, S. Vandoren Quantum Corrections to theUniversal Hypermultiplet and Superspace

MCTP-04-03 G. Cacciapaglia, C. Csaki, C. Grojean, J. Terning Oblique correctionsfrom Higgsless models in warped space

MCTP-04-04 Akikazu Hashimoto and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas CorrespondencePrinciple for Black Holes in Plane Waves

MCTP-04-05 M. Battaglia, D. Dominici, J.F. Gunion, J.D. Wells The invisibleHiggs decay width in the ADD model at LHC

MCTP-04-06 F. Larsen and R. McNees Holography, Diffeomorphisms, and ScalingViolations in the CMB

MCTP-04-07 Joshua Davis, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and Diana Vaman On BlackHole Thermodynamics in 2-d Type 0A

MCTP-04-08 A. Batrachenko and W. Y. Wen Generalized Holonomy of Supergrav-ities with 8 Real Supercharges

MCTP-04-09 J. Kerimo, James T. Liu, H. Lu and C.N. Pope Supergravities withMinkowski × Sphere Vacua

MCTP-04-10 Alexey A. Petrov Hunting for CP violation with untagged charmdecays

MCTP-04-11 V. Frolov, D. Fursaev, D. Stojkovic Rotating black holes in braneworlds

MCTP-04-12 T. Kobayashi, S. Raby, R.-J. Zhang Constructing 5d orbifold grandunified theories from heterotic strings

MCTP-04-13 T. Kobayashi, S. Raby, R.-J. Zhang Three-generation Pati-Salammodels from heterotic orbifold constructions

MCTP-04-14 Chris Savage, Noriyuki Sugiyama, and Katherine Freese Age of theUniverse in the Cardassian Model

MCTP-04-15 Yun Wang and Katherine Freese Probing Dark Energy using its Den-sity instead of its Equation of State

MCTP-04-16 Yun Wang, Veselin Kostov, Katherine Freese, Joshua A. Frieman,Paolo Gondolo Probing the Evolution of the Dark Energy Densitywith Future Supernova Surveys


MCTP-04-17 J. X. Lu and S. Roy Supergravity approach to Tachyon condensationon the brane-antibrane system

MCTP-04-18 M. J. Duff Erice lectures on “The status of local supersymmetry”

MCTP-04-19 A. Pawl Discrete Gauge Symmetries, Baryon Number, and LargeExtra Dimensions

MCTP-04-20 V. Frolov, D. Fursaev, D. Stojkovic Interaction of higher dimensionalrotating black holes with branes

MCTP-04-21 S. R. Das, J. L. Davis, F. Larsen, P. Mukhopadhyay Particle Produc-tion in Matrix Cosmology

MCTP-04-22 Dejan Stojkovic and Katherine Freese A black hole solution to thecosmological monopole problem

MCTP-04-23 Dejan Stojkovic and Katherine Freese A black hole solution to thecosmological monopole problem

MCTP-04-24 Katherine Freese and William H. Kinney On Natural Inflation

MCTP-04-25 Charles R. Doering, Nikola P. Petrov Low-wavenumber forcing andturbulent energy dissipation

MCTP-04-26 Jason Kumar, Arvind Rajaraman Revisiting D-branes in AdS3 × S3

MCTP-04-27 James T. Liu and W. A. Sabra Mass in anti-de Sitter spaces

MCTP-04-28 Yukio Tomozawa Sources for Gravitational Fields and Cosmology

MCTP-04-29 Yukio Tomozawa Coordinate Independence and a Physical Metric inCompact Form

MCTP-04-30 Yi-Fei Chen and J. X. Lu Dynamical brane creation and/or annihi-lation via a background flux

MCTP-04-31 Yi-Fei Chen and J. X. Lu Generating a dynamical M2 brane fromsuper-gravitons in a pp-wave background

MCTP-04-32 Haibin Wang and York-Peng Yao Momentum Representation of CoulombWave Functions and Level Shifts in Bottomonium due to Charm Ef-fects

MCTP-04-33 S. F. King, I.N.R. Peddie, G. G. Ross, L. Velasco-Sevilla and O. VivesKahler corrections to softly broken family symmetries

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