New Directions in Theoretical Physics 2
from
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 (8:00 AM)
to
Friday, January 13, 2017 (2:30 PM)
Monday, January 9, 2017
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
8:00 AM
Registration
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM
Welcome address
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Malcolm Perry (Cambridge): Soft Black Hole Hair
Soft Black Hole Hair
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
9:50 AM
Justin Khoury (Uni. of Pennsylvania): New Approaches to Dark Matter
New Approaches to Dark Matter
9:50 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
break
break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM
Pedro Ferreira (Oxford): Testing Gravity with Cosmology
Testing Gravity with Cosmology
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitational Physics): The Next Theoretical Challenges for Gravitational-Wave Observations
The Next Theoretical Challenges for Gravitational-Wave Observations
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
12:50 PM
discussion
12:50 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM
lunch
lunch
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM
Julien Tailleur (CNRS Paris): The Physics of Active Matter
The Physics of Active Matter
2:15 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): S-Matrix Theory for Massive Higher Spins and the Challenge of UV Completion
2:50 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM
break
break
3:40 PM - 4:05 PM
4:05 PM
Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale): Testing the cold dark matter model with gravitational lensing
Testing the cold dark matter model with gravitational lensing
4:05 PM - 4:55 PM
4:55 PM
Mike Cates (Cambridge): Stochastic Field Theories for Active Matter
Stochastic Field Theories for Active Matter
4:55 PM - 5:45 PM
5:45 PM
discussion
5:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Thursday, January 12, 2017
9:00 AM
Mike Shelley (New York University): Active structures and active matter models
Active structures and active matter models
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
9:50 AM
Mark Krumholz (ANU, Australia): The Origin of Stellar Masses
The Origin of Stellar Masses
9:50 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
break
break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM
Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam): Extreme measures for extremal black holes
Extreme measures for extremal black holes
11:10 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM
Lance Dixon (Stanford): Polylogs for Polygons: Bootstrapping Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Polylogs for Polygons: Bootstrapping Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
11:45 AM - 12:35 PM
12:35 PM
discussion
12:35 PM - 1:10 PM
1:10 PM
lunch
lunch
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM
John Ellis (CERN/KCL): Where are we going?
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Eiichiro Komatsu (Max-Planck Inst. for Astrophysics): Position-dependent Power Spectrum
Position-dependent Power Spectrum
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM
break
break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
Licia Verde (University of Barcelona): Precision cosmology, now what?
Precision cosmology, now what?
4:20 PM - 4:55 PM
4:55 PM
Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University): Theory of Force Transmission and Rigidity in Granular Systems
Theory of Force Transmission and Rigidity in Granular Systems
4:55 PM - 5:45 PM
5:45 PM
discussion
5:45 PM - 6:15 PM
7:00 PM
conference dinner
conference dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, January 13, 2017
9:00 AM
David Kaplan (University of Washington): Chiral Gauge Theory
Chiral Gauge Theory
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
9:50 AM
Neil Turok (Perimeter): Quantum Universe
Quantum Universe
9:50 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
break
break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM
Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford): Random tensor networks and quantum gravity
Random tensor networks and quantum gravity
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Yann LeCun (New York University): Deep Learning
Deep Learning
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
12:50 PM
discussion & close
12:50 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM