New Directions in Theoretical Physics 2

UTC
50 George Square

50 George Square

    • 08:00 08:45
      Registration
    • 08:45 09:00
      Welcome address
    • 09:00 09:50
      Malcolm Perry (Cambridge): Soft Black Hole Hair
      slides
      video
    • 09:50 10:40
      Justin Khoury (Uni. of Pennsylvania): New Approaches to Dark Matter
      slides
      video
    • 10:40 11:10
      break 30m
    • 11:10 12:00
      Pedro Ferreira (Oxford): Testing Gravity with Cosmology
      slides
      video
    • 12:00 12:50
      Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitational Physics): The Next Theoretical Challenges for Gravitational-Wave Observations
      slides
    • 12:50 13:15
      discussion
    • 13:15 14:15
      lunch 1h
    • 14:15 14:50
      Julien Tailleur (CNRS Paris): The Physics of Active Matter
      slides
      video
    • 14:50 15:40
      Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): S-Matrix Theory for Massive Higher Spins and the Challenge of UV Completion
    • 15:40 16:05
      break 25m
    • 16:05 16:55
      Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale): Testing the cold dark matter model with gravitational lensing
      slides
      video
    • 16:55 17:45
      Mike Cates (Cambridge): Stochastic Field Theories for Active Matter
      slides
      video
    • 17:45 18:15
      discussion
      video
    • 09:00 09:50
      Mike Shelley (New York University): Active structures and active matter models
      slides
      video
    • 09:50 10:40
      Mark Krumholz (ANU, Australia): The Origin of Stellar Masses
      slides
      video
    • 10:40 11:10
      break 30m
    • 11:10 11:45
      Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam): Extreme measures for extremal black holes
      slides
      video
    • 11:45 12:35
      Lance Dixon (Stanford): Polylogs for Polygons: Bootstrapping Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
      slides
      video
    • 12:35 13:10
      discussion
      video
    • 13:10 14:10
      lunch 1h
    • 14:10 15:00
      John Ellis (CERN/KCL): Where are we going?
      slides
      video
    • 15:00 15:50
      Eiichiro Komatsu (Max-Planck Inst. for Astrophysics): Position-dependent Power Spectrum
      slides
      video
    • 15:50 16:20
      break 30m
    • 16:20 16:55
      Licia Verde (University of Barcelona): Precision cosmology, now what?
      slides
      video
    • 16:55 17:45
      Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University): Theory of Force Transmission and Rigidity in Granular Systems
      slides
      video
    • 17:45 18:15
      discussion
      video
    • 19:00 22:00
      conference dinner 3h Playfair Library

      Playfair Library

    • 09:00 09:50
      David Kaplan (University of Washington): Chiral Gauge Theory
      slides
      video
    • 09:50 10:40
      Neil Turok (Perimeter): Quantum Universe
      slides
    • 10:40 11:10
      break 30m
    • 11:10 12:00
      Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford): Random tensor networks and quantum gravity
      slides
      video
    • 12:00 12:50
      Yann LeCun (New York University): Deep Learning
      slides
      video
    • 12:50 13:30
      discussion & close
      video
    • 13:30 14:00
      Lunch 30m
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