New Directions in Theoretical Physics 2
from
Wednesday, 11 January 2017 (08:00)
to
Friday, 13 January 2017 (14:30)
Monday, 9 January 2017
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
08:00
Registration
08:00 - 08:45
08:45
Welcome address
08:45 - 09:00
09:00
Malcolm Perry (Cambridge): Soft Black Hole Hair
Soft Black Hole Hair
09:00 - 09:50
09:50
Justin Khoury (Uni. of Pennsylvania): New Approaches to Dark Matter
New Approaches to Dark Matter
09:50 - 10:40
10:40
break
break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
Pedro Ferreira (Oxford): Testing Gravity with Cosmology
Testing Gravity with Cosmology
11:10 - 12:00
12:00
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 - 12:50
12:50
discussion
12:50 - 13:15
13:15
lunch
lunch
13:15 - 14:15
14:15
Julien Tailleur (CNRS Paris): The Physics of Active Matter
The Physics of Active Matter
14:15 - 14:50
14:50
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): S-Matrix Theory for Massive Higher Spins and the Challenge of UV Completion
14:50 - 15:40
15:40
break
break
15:40 - 16:05
16:05
Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale): Testing the cold dark matter model with gravitational lensing
Testing the cold dark matter model with gravitational lensing
16:05 - 16:55
16:55
Mike Cates (Cambridge): Stochastic Field Theories for Active Matter
Stochastic Field Theories for Active Matter
16:55 - 17:45
17:45
discussion
17:45 - 18:15
Thursday, 12 January 2017
09:00
Mike Shelley (New York University): Active structures and active matter models
Active structures and active matter models
09:00 - 09:50
09:50
Mark Krumholz (ANU, Australia): The Origin of Stellar Masses
The Origin of Stellar Masses
09:50 - 10:40
10:40
break
break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam): Extreme measures for extremal black holes
Extreme measures for extremal black holes
11:10 - 11:45
11:45
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 - 12:35
12:35
discussion
12:35 - 13:10
13:10
lunch
lunch
13:10 - 14:10
14:10
John Ellis (CERN/KCL): Where are we going?
14:10 - 15:00
15:00
Eiichiro Komatsu (Max-Planck Inst. for Astrophysics): Position-dependent Power Spectrum
Position-dependent Power Spectrum
15:00 - 15:50
15:50
break
break
15:50 - 16:20
16:20
Licia Verde (University of Barcelona): Precision cosmology, now what?
Precision cosmology, now what?
16:20 - 16:55
16:55
Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University): Theory of Force Transmission and Rigidity in Granular Systems
Theory of Force Transmission and Rigidity in Granular Systems
16:55 - 17:45
17:45
discussion
17:45 - 18:15
19:00
conference dinner
conference dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Friday, 13 January 2017
09:00
David Kaplan (University of Washington): Chiral Gauge Theory
Chiral Gauge Theory
09:00 - 09:50
09:50
Neil Turok (Perimeter): Quantum Universe
Quantum Universe
09:50 - 10:40
10:40
break
break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford): Random tensor networks and quantum gravity
Random tensor networks and quantum gravity
11:10 - 12:00
12:00
Yann LeCun (New York University): Deep Learning
Deep Learning
12:00 - 12:50
12:50
discussion & close
12:50 - 13:30
13:30
Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00