Speaker
Mr
Simon Caron-Huot
(Niels Bohr International Academy)
Description
Physical systems with unexpected, or 'hidden’, symmetries have often played a role in physics. I will argue that the symmetry responsible for the degeneracies of the hydrogen spectrum extends to a unique relativistic quantum field theory - a maximally supersymmetric (`N=4') cousin of the strong-interaction Yang-Mills theory. I will discuss how this is enabling its solution, and what this teaches us more generally about other theories
