Strings, Gauge Theory and the LHC

22 Aug 2011, 09:00 → 2 Sept 2011, 18:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Auditorium A (Niels Bohr International Academy)

For a two week period between the 22nd August until the 2nd of September the NBIA and NBI theory groups will host a Copenhagen conference.

A wide range of topics will be addressed. New computational methods, many of which have their origin in string theories, have deepened our understanding of perturbative gauge theory amplitudes. At the same time, holography has provided a new tool to study gauge theory theory phenomena at strong coupling. We are now beginning to see their impact in predictions for both SM and BSM phenomenology and understanding non-perturbative QCD.

The focus will be on:

• Physics beyond the standard model
• New structures in scattering amplitudes
• Strings at strong coupling
• Integrability

Monday, 22 August

09:00 Registration

1 Is there any torsion in your future?

Speaker: Dimitri Diakonov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

Slides Diakonov_11.pdf

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

2 Blackfolds, (an)isotropic charged fluids and thermal probes/strings

Speaker: Niels Obers (NBI)

12:30 Lunch

18:00 Welcome Drinks

Tuesday, 23 August

3 Semiclassical correlation functions in holography

Speaker: Konstantin Zarembo (Nordita)

Slides Zarembo-Copenhagen-August11.pdf Zarembo-Copenhagen-August11.pptx

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

4 Renormalization in the unitarity method

Speaker: Ruth Britto (IPhT, Saclay)

Slides Britto.pdf

12:30 Lunch

5 Quantum strings on AdS_4 x CP^3

Speaker: Gianluca Grignani (University of Perugia)

Slides Grignani-NBI2011.pdf

Wednesday, 24 August

6 Holographic fixed points in D=3

Speaker: Gordon Semenoff (University of British Columbia)

Slides semenoff-nbi2011.pdf

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

7 The Status of SUSY after 1/fb at the LHC

Speaker: David Shih (IAS)

12:30 Lunch

Open Forum for Short Presentations

8 Null polygonal Wilson loops in full superspace

Speaker: Song He (AEI, Potsdam)

9 The harmony of superstring disk amplitudes

Speaker: Oliver Schlotterer (MPI, Munich)

10 Analyticity and renormalization in nucleon scattering

Speaker: Alejandro Jenkins (FSU)

Thursday, 25 August

11 Ultraviolet Divergences and Counterterm Structure in Maximal Supergravity

Speaker: Kelly Stelle (Imperial College, London)

Slides Stelle-NBI.pdf

11:30 Tea and Coffee Break

12 Scattering amplitudes from Wilson loops

Speaker: Simon Caron-Huot (IAS)

13:00 Lunch

13 Black Holes and Spontaneously Broken Conformal Symmetry

Speaker: Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.)

Friday, 26 August

14 QCD string: ten years later

Speaker: Yuri Makeenko (ITEP, Moscow)

Slides makeenko.NBI_talk.pdf

11:30 Tea and Coffee Break

15 Renormalization Group Flows in Four Dimensions

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski (IAS)

13:00 Lunch

16 New results from the LHC

Speaker: Peter Jenni (CERN)

Slides Jenni.Copenhagen.LHC.26Aug11.pdf

17 Grassmannian Polytopes and Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

19:00 Dinner

Monday, 29 August

18 Hidden symmetry of four-point correlation functions and amplitudes in N=4 SYM

Speaker: Gregory Korchemsky (IPhT, Saclay)

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

19 A massive S-matrix from massless amplitudes

Speaker: Michael Kiermaier (Princeton U.)

Slides Kiermaier-Coulomb.pdf

12:30 Lunch

20 A Brief History of the NBI

Speaker: Andrew Jackson (NBIA)

17:00 Welcome Back Drinks

Tuesday, 30 August

21 TBA

Speaker: Michael Green (DAMTP)

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

22 TBA

Speaker: Radu Roiban (Penn State)

12:30 Lunch

23 Gluons for nothing, gravitons for free

Speaker: John Joseph Carrasco

Slides Carrasco-Nbia11.pdf

Wednesday, 31 August

24 The Momentum Kernel of Gauge and Gravity Theories

Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (IPhT, Saclay)

Slides Vanhove-monodromies-NBIA-Aout2011.pdf

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

25 Analyticity in scale at leading order in 1/N in SU(N) gauge theory

Speaker: Herbert Neuberger (Rutgers)

Slides neuberger_cph_aug_2011.pdf

12:30 Lunch

26 Mapping our Universe for Precision Cosmology

NBIA Colloquium : Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture

Speaker: Max Tegmark (MIT)

Thursday, 1 September

27 TBA

Speaker: Zvi Bern (UCLA)

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

28 Some applications of the analytic S-matrix ranging from type IIB to QCD

Speaker: Rutger Boels (Hamburg U.)

12:30 Lunch

29 TBA

Speaker: Jacobus Verbaarschot (Stony Brook University)

17:00 Dinner

The museum is 35km north of Copenhagen. We will provide transport from the NBI.

http://www.louisiana.dk

Friday, 2 September

30 Generalized quark-antiquark potential at weak and strong coupling

Speaker: Nadav Drukker (Imperial College, London)

Slides Drukker_fulltalk.pdf

11:00 Tea and Coffee Break

31 Manifestly duality symmetric actions in M-theory from generalized geometry

Speaker: David Berman (QMUL)

12:30 Lunch