Current Themes in High Energy Physics and Cosmology

21 Aug 2017, 08:59 → 25 Aug 2017, 22:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Auditorium A (Niels Bohr Institute)

Gaute Linga (Niels Bohr Institute)

For the period of 21-25th of August 2017, the NBIA and the Discovery Center will host a workshop on new developments in particle physics and cosmology.

The idea is to provide a stimulating environment with few talks per day, but plenty of time for informal discussions. A range of topics and current themes in High Energy Physics and Cosmology will be addressed.


Participants and Speakers include

      N. Arkani-Hamed         Z. Bern           A. Buonanno    
       J. Cline      P. DiVecchia     V. Forini     J. Kaplan         D. Kosower        
K. Mack        A. Nagar         C. Rovelli         J.E. Santos          A. Sen        
                    M. Shifman        P. Steinhardt     A. Strominger                     

Registration
Participation is open, but speakers are by invitation only. Please register for the workshop, but please note that due to space limitations, you have not been accepted to the workshop before you receive confirmation from coordinator Anette Studsgård.

The meeting will take place in the historical Auditorium A of the Niels Bohr Institute.
 

 

Organizing committee

N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr        Jake Bourjaily
Poul Henrik Damgaard        Mads Søgaard

The meeting is supported by Danish National Research Foundation and the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Monday, 21 August

10:00 → 11:00 High-energy scattering on Dp-branes meets unitarity and causality

Speaker: Paolo Di Vecchia

Slides DiVecchia_HighEnergyScatterinngonDpBranerMeetsUnitarityandCausality.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Realistic observables without background spacetime: Planck star lifetime

Speaker: Carlo Rovelli

Slides Rovelli_Copenhagen2017.key

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Possible implications of B anomalies

Speaker: Jim Cline

Slides Cline_PossibleImplicationsofBAnomalies.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Welcome reception

Tuesday, 22 August

10:00 → 11:00 Strings on the lattice and AdS/CFT

Speaker: Valentina Forini

Slides Forini_StringsontheLatticeandAdSCFT.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 From non-Abelian soliton vortices to Critical Strings: 10D strings bottom up

Speaker: Mikhail Shifman

Slides Shifman_FromNonAbelianSolitonVorticesToCriticalStrings.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Effective-one-body modeling of gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries: from black holes to neutron stars

Speaker: Alessandro Nagar

Wednesday, 23 August

10:00 → 11:00 Soft Graviton Theorem in Generic Quantum Theory of Gravity

Speaker: Ashoke Sen

Slides Sen_SoftGravitonTheoremForGenericQuantumGravity.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Bulk Reconstruction and the Information Paradox in AdS_3

Speaker: Jared Kaplan

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Sackler Lecture: Soft Hair on Black Holes

Speaker: Andrew Strominger

Slides Strominger_SoftHairOnBlackHoles.pptx

15:00 → 16:00 Sackler Reception

16:00 → 17:00 Violating weak cosmic censorship in AdS_4

Speaker: Jorge Eduardo Santos

Slides Santos_ViolatingWeakCosmicCensorshipInAdS4.pdf

18:30 → 21:00 Dinner @ Tivoli

Thursday, 24 August

11:00 → 12:00 Evanesence, Curvature^2, and the Anomaly in N=4 Supergravity

Speaker: David Kosower

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Guided tour w/Niels Bohr Archive

14:00 → 15:00 Supergravity at Five Loops

Speaker: Zvi Bern

Slides Bern_SupergravityAtFiveLoops.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Positive Geometry

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed

Friday, 25 August

10:00 → 11:00 The Cosmic Initial Conditions Problem

Speaker: Paul Steinhardt

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Dark matter in the cosmic context

Speaker: Katherine Mack

Slides Mack_DarkMatterInTheCosmicContext.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Theoretical Success and New Challenges in Observing and Interpreting the Signature of Dynamical Spacetime

Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno

15:00 → 16:00 End reception