Current Themes in High Energy Physics and Cosmology

17 Aug 2015, 08:59 → 21 Aug 2015, 22:00 Europe/Copenhagen

 

The workshop will address the current and future themes in theoretical particle
physics and cosmology.

The meeting will take place from 17th-21st August 2015, in the historical
Auditorium A of the Niels Bohr Institute.

Potentially interested participants should contact one of the six organisers.

Participants and speakers include:

Nima Arkani-Hamed
Tom Banks
Nathan Berkovits
Clifford Cheung
Lance Dixon
Katie Freese
Peter Goddard
Ben Grinstein
David Gross
Hong Liu
Lionel Mason
Slava Mukhanov
V. P. Nair
Subir Sarkar
Veronica Sanz
Paul Steinhardt


Organisers:

Emil Bjerrum-Bohr (bjbohr@nbi.dk) 
Jacob Bourjaily (bourjaily@nbi.ku.dk) 
Tristan Dennen (tdennen@nbi.ku.dk)
Guido Festuccia (guido.festuccia@nbi.ku.dk)
Kim Splittorff (split@nbi.ku.dk)
Michael Trott (michael.trott@nbi.ku.dk)

Local advisory committee:

Poul H. Damgaard
Pavel Naselsky

Monday, 17 August

09:30 Registration

1 Opening Remarks

Speaker: Robert Krarup Feidenhans'l

2 Holographic Linear Dilaton Gravity and the Emergence of Black Holes

Speaker: Thomas Banks

Slides copenhagen2august2015.pdf

11:00 Coffee

3 Are Ultraviolet Poles Arbitrary in Quantum Gravity at Two Loops?

Speaker: Lance Dixon

Slides DixonNBI.pdf

12:30 Lunch

4 Non-renormalization Theorems Without Supersymmetry

Speaker: Clifford Cheung

Slides Non-renormalization_Theorems_without_Supersymmetry.pdf

15:00 Coffee

Tuesday, 18 August

5 Mini-max Flavor Violation

Speaker: Benjamin Grinstein

Slides grinstein.pdf

11:00 Coffee

6 TBA

Speaker: Viatcheslav Mukhanov

12:30 Lunch

7 Twistors and the Superstring

Speaker: Nathan Berkovits

15:00 Coffee

Wednesday, 19 August

8 Properties of the Scattering Equations

Speaker: Peter Goddard

Slides Copenhagen_2015.pdf

11:00 Coffee

9 Propagation of Entanglement and Causality

Speaker: Hong Liu

Slides Copenhagen.pdf

12:30 Lunch

10 Looking for New Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Veronica Sanz

Slides NBI2015.pdf

15:00 Coffee

Thursday, 20 August

11 Ambitwistor Strings and Loop Integrands

Speaker: Lionel Mason

Slides nbi-ambi.pdf

11:00 Coffee

12 Thermofield Dynamics and Gravity

I will discuss thermofield dynamics in terms of a path-integral using coherent states, and also in terms of a field theoretic formulation on a manifold ${\mathcal M} \times {\tilde{\mathcal M}}$ where the two components have opposite orientation. As an application, a formulation of gravitational dynamics for noncommutative geometry using thermofield dynamics, with a doubling the Hilbert space modeling the noncommutative space will be considered. For 2+1 dimensions, since ${\mathcal M}$ and ${\tilde{\mathcal M}}$ have the opposite orientation, the commutative limit leads to the Einstein-Hilbert action as the difference of two Chern-Simons actions.

Speaker: Parameswaran Nair

Slides Nair-NBIA.pdf

12:30 Lunch

13 TBA

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed

15:00 Coffee

Friday, 21 August

14 A New Approach to Bouncing Cosmology

Speaker: Paul Steinhardt

11:00 Coffee

15 Review of Dark Matter

Speaker: Katherine Freese

Slides DM_NBIA.pdf

12:30 Lunch

16 The Great Collider in the Sky

Speaker: Subir Sarkar

Slides Copenhagen15_cosmiccollider.pdf

15:00 Coffee