New Directions in Theoretical Physics 2
11 Jan 2017, 08:00
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13 Jan 2017, 14:30
UTC
50 George Square
50 George Square
document
Alejandra_Castro_-_Extreme_measures_for_extremal_black_holes.pptx
Alessandra_Buonanno_-_The_Next_Theoretical_Challenges_for_Gravitational.pdf
Bulbul_Chakrabarty.pdf
Eiichiro_Komatsu_-_Position-dependent_Power_Spectrum.pdf
John_Ellis_-_Where_are_we_going.pptx
Julien_Tailleur_-_The_Physics_of_Active_Matter.pdf
Justin_Khoury_-_New_Approaches_to_Dark_Matter.pdf
Kaplan_Chiral_Gauge_Theory.pdf
Lance_Dixon_-_Polylogs_for_Polygons.pptx
lecun-nditp.pdf
Licia_Verde2016.pdf
Malcom_Perry_-_Soft_Hair_on_Black_Holes.pdf
Mark_Krumholz_-_The_Origin_of_Stellar_Masses.pdf
Mike_Cates_-_Stochastic_Field_Theories_for_Active_Matter.pptx
Mike_Shelley_-_Active_structures_and_active_matter_models.pdf
Neil_TurokTalkfinalpdf.pdf
Pedro_Ferreira_-_Gravity_from_Cosmology.pdf
Priya_Natarajan_-_Testing_the_cold_dark_matter_model_with_gravitational_lensing.pdf
XiaoliangQi.pdf
Wednesday, 11 January
Wed, 11 Jan
Thu, 12 Jan
Fri, 13 Jan
08:00
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08:45
Registration
08:45
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09:00
Welcome address
09:00
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09:50
Malcolm Perry (Cambridge): Soft Black Hole Hair
slides
video
09:50
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10:40
Justin Khoury (Uni. of Pennsylvania): New Approaches to Dark Matter
slides
video
10:40
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11:10
break
30m
11:10
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12:00
Pedro Ferreira (Oxford): Testing Gravity with Cosmology
slides
video
12:00
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12:50
Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitational Physics): The Next Theoretical Challenges for Gravitational-Wave Observations
slides
12:50
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13:15
discussion
13:15
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14:15
lunch
1h
14:15
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14:50
Julien Tailleur (CNRS Paris): The Physics of Active Matter
slides
video
14:50
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15:40
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): S-Matrix Theory for Massive Higher Spins and the Challenge of UV Completion
15:40
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16:05
break
25m
16:05
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16:55
Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale): Testing the cold dark matter model with gravitational lensing
slides
video
16:55
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17:45
Mike Cates (Cambridge): Stochastic Field Theories for Active Matter
slides
video
17:45
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18:15
discussion
video
Thursday, 12 January
Wed, 11 Jan
Thu, 12 Jan
Fri, 13 Jan
09:00
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09:50
Mike Shelley (New York University): Active structures and active matter models
slides
video
09:50
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10:40
Mark Krumholz (ANU, Australia): The Origin of Stellar Masses
slides
video
10:40
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11:10
break
30m
11:10
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11:45
Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam): Extreme measures for extremal black holes
slides
video
11:45
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12:35
Lance Dixon (Stanford): Polylogs for Polygons: Bootstrapping Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
slides
video
12:35
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13:10
discussion
video
13:10
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14:10
lunch
1h
14:10
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15:00
John Ellis (CERN/KCL): Where are we going?
slides
video
15:00
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15:50
Eiichiro Komatsu (Max-Planck Inst. for Astrophysics): Position-dependent Power Spectrum
slides
video
15:50
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16:20
break
30m
16:20
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16:55
Licia Verde (University of Barcelona): Precision cosmology, now what?
slides
video
16:55
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17:45
Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University): Theory of Force Transmission and Rigidity in Granular Systems
slides
video
17:45
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18:15
discussion
video
19:00
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22:00
conference dinner
3h
Playfair Library
Playfair Library
Friday, 13 January
Wed, 11 Jan
Thu, 12 Jan
Fri, 13 Jan
09:00
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09:50
David Kaplan (University of Washington): Chiral Gauge Theory
slides
video
09:50
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10:40
Neil Turok (Perimeter): Quantum Universe
slides
10:40
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11:10
break
30m
11:10
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12:00
Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford): Random tensor networks and quantum gravity
slides
video
12:00
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12:50
Yann LeCun (New York University): Deep Learning
slides
video
12:50
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13:30
discussion & close
video
13:30
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14:00
Lunch
30m