Hidden Structures in Field Theory Amplitudes

Europe/Copenhagen
Auditorium A (Niels Bohr International Academy)

Auditorium A

Niels Bohr International Academy

Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
Description
This was a small informal workshop centered on recent developments in amplitude calculations in field theory in a broad sense of the word. The focus was on exchanging ideas about the structural aspects of these and lessons that can be drawn from them. The workshop took place at the Niels Bohr International Academy, a newly formed entity at the Niels Bohr Institute, located in the recently refurbished Nordita building. PDF-files for almost all the talks can be found here. The workshop photo can be found here. The website for the 2009 workshop can be found here.

Speakers

Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) Simon Badger (Saclay) Paolo Benincasa (Perimeter Institute and CPT, Durham) Emil Bjerrum-Bohr (IAS) Paul Heslop (Queen Mary, University of London) Henrik Johansson (UCLA) Riccardo Ricci (Imperial College) David Skinner (Mathematical Institute, Oxford) Marcus Spradlin (Brown University) Pierre Vanhove (Saclay) All this in the spirit of these gentlemen, Discussions to be hoped for
Participants
  • Alan Luther
  • Charlotte Kristjansen
  • Christian Schwinn
  • David Skinner
  • Hael Collins
  • Henrik Johansson
  • James Bedford
  • James Ettle
  • jesper Møller grimstrup
  • Konstantinos Zoubos
  • Lionel Mason
  • Marcus Spradlin
  • Marta Orselli
  • Niels Emil Jannik Bjerrum-Bohr
  • Niels Obers
  • Paolo Benincasa
  • Paolo Di Vecchia
  • Paul Heslop
  • Pierre Vanhove
  • Poul Damgaard
  • Poul Olesen
  • Riccardo Ricci
  • Robert Graham
  • Rutger Boels
  • Sharaz Butt
  • Shinji Hirano
  • Simon Badger
    • 09:00 09:45
      Coffee&tea 45m coffee room

      coffee room

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 09:45 10:00
      Welcome, practicalities 15m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Organizers
    • 10:00 10:30
      No-triangle Hypothesis and Maximal Supergravity 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Emil Bjerrum-Bohr (IAS)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Maximal Supersymmetry and Higher loop Amplitudes in Supergravity 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Pierre Vanhove (Saclay)
    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee&tea 30m coffee room

      coffee room

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 11:30 12:00
      A new identity for gauge theory amplitudes 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Henrik Johansson (UCLA)
    • 12:00 12:30
      D-dimensional unitarity cuts and extraction of rational terms 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Simon Badger (Saclay)
    • 12:30 13:15
      LUNCH! 45m Niels Bohr Institute Canteen

      Niels Bohr Institute Canteen

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 14:30 15:00
      History of science lecture on Niels Bohr and his Institute 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Finn Aaserud (Niels Bohr Archive)
    • 15:00 15:30
      Tour of Niels Bohr's Office and the Niels Bohr Archive 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Felicity Pors (Niels Bohr Archive)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee&tea 30m coffee room

      coffee room

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 09:00 09:45
      Coffee&tea 45m coffee room

      coffee room

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 09:45 10:15
      Wilson loops, amplitudes and dual superconformal symmetry 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Paul Heslop (Queen Mary College)
    • 10:15 10:45
      Leading singularities of gravity amplitudes 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Paolo Benincasa (Perimeter Institute and CPT, Durham)
    • 10:45 11:15
      Coffee&tea 30m coffee room

      coffee room

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 11:15 12:15
      "Locality vs Simplicity" 1h Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)
    • 12:30 13:15
      LUNCH! 45m Niels Bohr Institute Canteen

      Niels Bohr Institute Canteen

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 15:15 16:15
      Faculty of Science Colloquium: Fundamental Physics and the Large Hadron Collider 1h Auditorium 3, H.C.Ørsted Institutet (Auditorium 3)

      Auditorium 3, H.C.Ørsted Institutet

      Auditorium 3

      H.C.Ørsted Institutet, Universitetsparken 5
      With the turn-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this fall, fundamental physics is on the verge of entering its most exciting era in a generation. The LHC is the biggest experiment in history, in all senses of the word. The machine is a circular ring with a 28 km circumference, in which two beams of protons are accelerated in opposite directions, to speeds approaching 0.99999999 times the speed of light. They are then made to collide with each other, giving us a window into the laws of Nature at 10^(-17) cm, 1000 times smaller than the atomic nucleus, 10 times smaller the tiniest distances we have probed to date. There are strong arguments that dramatic new physical principles await us at these distances. The LHC could extend our usual notions of spacetime by detecting "supersymmetry" or extra dimensions of space, and could directly produce the particles that constitute the Dark Matter of the Universe. In this talk I will describe these ideas, and discuss the solid things we will be able to say about them by the early years of the next decade.
      Speaker: Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)
    • 18:00 21:00
      Workshop Dinner 3h Restaurant Zeleste (Restaurant Zeleste)

      Restaurant Zeleste

      Restaurant Zeleste

      Store Strandstræde 6 Koebenhavn
    • 09:00 09:45
      Coffee&tea 45m coffee room

      coffee room

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 09:45 10:45
      Multiloop Amplitudes and AdS/CFT 1h Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Prof. Marcus Spradlin (Brown University)
    • 10:45 11:15
      Coffee&tea 30m coffee room

      coffee room

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
    • 11:15 11:45
      Gravity, Twistors and the MHV Formalism 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr David Skinner (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)
    • 11:45 12:15
      Dual superconformal symmetry from AdS_5*S^5 30m Auditorium A

      Auditorium A

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen
      Speaker: Dr Riccardo Ricci (Imperial College)
    • 12:30 13:15
      LUNCH! 45m Niels Bohr Institute Canteen

      Niels Bohr Institute Canteen

      Niels Bohr International Academy

      Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen