Simons Program: Amplitudes in String and Field Theory

18 Mar 2019, 10:30 → 22 Mar 2019, 16:30 Europe/Copenhagen

Auditorium A (Niels Bohr Institute)

For the period of 18th - 22nd of March, the NBIA will jointly host a Simons Program on Amplitudes in string theory and field theory.

The idea is to provide a stimulating environment with few talks per day, but plenty of time for informal discussions.

Speakers include Nathan Berkovits, Zvi Bern, David Broadhurst, Eric D’Hoker, Lance Dixon, Francesca Ferrari, Yvonne Geyer, Carlos Mafra, Sameer Murthy, Oliver Schlotterer, and Pierre Vanhove.

Registration
Participation is limited. If you are interested in participating, please contact our coordinator Helle Kiilerich.

The meeting will take place in the historical Auditorium A of the Niels Bohr Institute.

Organising Committee

Paolo Benincasa, Jacob Bourjaily, Poul H. Damgaard, Michael Green, Matthias Wilhelm

Monday, 18 March

10:30 Registration

Michael Green: S-duality and modular forms in superstring amplitudes

12:30 Lunch Break & Discussions

Congkao Wen: Modular Forms of type IIB superstring theory, and U(1)-violating amplitudes

15:00 Coffee and Discussions

Tuesday, 19 March

Oliver Schlotterer: Closed strings as single-valued open strings at tree level and one loop

12:30 Lunch Break & Discussions

Francesca Ferrari: Eichler integrals and 3-manifold invariants

15:00 Coffee and Discussions

Pierre Vanhove: Closed string amplitudes from single-valued correlation functions

Wednesday, 20 March

Nathan Berkovits: Sketching a proof of the Maldacena conjecture at small radius

12:30 Lunch Break & Discussions

Sameer Murthy: Twisted BRST quantization and localization in supergravity.

15:00 Coffee and Discussions

Yvonne Geyer: The polarized scattering equations and superamplitudes in 6d

18:30 Conference Dinner @ Carne Famo

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We will get together at NBIA at 17.30 for walking to the restaurant. Alternatively, participants can go directly.

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Thursday, 21 March

Carlos Mafra

13:00 Lunch Break & Discussions

Zvi Bern: Applying Scattering Amplitude Methods to Gravitational Waves

15:30 Coffee and Discussions

Lance Dixon: Two-loop five-point amplitudes for maximal supersymmetry

Friday, 22 March

David Broadhurst: Quasi-periods and Rademacher sums in quantum electrodynamics and beyond

11:00 Coffee and Discussions

Eric D’Hoker: Transcendentality in superstring amplitudes

12:30 Lunch Break & Discussions

NBIA Lecture: Eugene Polzik, Measurements beyond the standard quantum limits

15:30 Refreshments