Current Themes in High Energy Physics and Cosmology

25 Aug 2014, 08:59 → 29 Aug 2014, 22:00 Europe/Copenhagen

 

Monday, 25 August

09:00 Registration

1 Welcome

2 Hybrid Inflation with Planck Scale Fields

Speaker: Prof. Michael Dine (UCSC)

Slides Dine_HybridInflation.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

3 Quantum gravity and the equivalence principle

Speaker: Prof. Pierre Vanhove (DSM/IPhT & IHES)

Slides Vanhove_QuantumGravity.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

4 Low-Energy Behavior of Gluons and Gravitons from Gauge Invariance

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Di Vecchia (Nordita)

Slides Vecchia_LowEnergy.pdf

15:00 Coffee break

Tuesday, 26 August

5 The D^6 R^4 term from three loop maximal supergravity

Speaker: Dr Anirban Basu (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

Slides Basu_D6R4.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

6 The Double-Copy Nature of Gravity and Matter Amplitudes

Speaker: Dr Henrik Johansson

Slides Johansson_DoubleCopy.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

Wednesday, 27 August

7 Amplitudes and the Scattering Equations

Speaker: Prof. Louise Dolan (North Carolina U)

Slides Dolan_ScatteringEq.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

8 Exact Results in Hydrodynamics and Cardy formulae in d=4 and d=6

Speaker: Prof. Zohar Komargodski (Weizmann Institute of Science)

12:30 Lunch break

9 String scattering amplitudes, Feynman diagrams and M-Theory

Speaker: Prof. Michael B. Green (Cambridge U. DAMTP)

Slides Green_StringScattering.pdf

15:00 Coffee break

19:00 Workshop Dinner

Thursday, 28 August

10 Recent Progress on Cosmological Bounces and Bouncing Cosmologies

Speaker: Prof. Paul Steinhardt (Princeton U.)

Slides Steinhardt_BouncingCosmology.pdf Steinhardt_BouncingCosmology.pptx

11:00 Coffee break

11 Enhanced ultraviolet cancellations in supergravity

Speaker: Prof. Zvi Bern (UCLA)

Slides nbi_14.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

12 High-energy QCD and Wilson lines

Speaker: Prof. Ian Balitsky (Old Dominion University/ JLAB)

Slides Balitsky_HEQCD.pdf

15:00 Coffee break

Friday, 29 August

13 Energy-energy correlations: from QCD to N=4 SYM and back

Speaker: Prof. Gregory KORCHEMSKY (DSM/IPhT)

Slides Korchemsky_EEC.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

14 Grassmannian Geometry and the Analytic S-Matrix

Speaker: Dr Jacob Bourjaily (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Bourjaily_Grassmanian.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture

15 The Scope of String Theory (Sackler lecture)

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Michael B. Green (Cambridge U. DAMTP)

15:00 Coffee break