New Directions in Theoretical Physics 2

Jan 11, 2017, 8:00 AM → Jan 13, 2017, 2:30 PM UTC

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, January 11

8:00 AM → 8:45 AM Registration

8:45 AM → 9:00 AM Welcome address

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Malcolm Perry (Cambridge): Soft Black Hole Hair

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/7.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Malcom_Perry/1_g4dypllj

9:50 AM → 10:40 AM Justin Khoury (Uni. of Pennsylvania): New Approaches to Dark Matter

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/5.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Justin_Khoury/1_2zf20yor

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM break

11:10 AM → 12:00 PM Pedro Ferreira (Oxford): Testing Gravity with Cosmology

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/11.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Pedro_Ferreira/1_g188ge87

12:00 PM → 12:50 PM Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitational Physics): The Next Theoretical Challenges for Gravitational-Wave Observations

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/0.pdf

12:50 PM → 1:15 PM discussion

1:15 PM → 2:15 PM lunch

2:15 PM → 2:50 PM Julien Tailleur (CNRS Paris): The Physics of Active Matter

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/4.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Julien_Tailleur/1_3usffn2j

2:50 PM → 3:40 PM Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): S-Matrix Theory for Massive Higher Spins and the Challenge of UV Completion

3:40 PM → 4:05 PM break

4:05 PM → 4:55 PM Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale): Testing the cold dark matter model with gravitational lensing

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/12.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Priyamvada_Natarajan/1_lux8aj98

4:55 PM → 5:45 PM Mike Cates (Cambridge): Stochastic Field Theories for Active Matter

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/9.pptx

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Mike_Cates/1_hew9tdn9

5:45 PM → 6:15 PM discussion

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Discussion2/1_c47g9o2t

Thursday, January 12

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Mike Shelley (New York University): Active structures and active matter models

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/10.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Michael_Shelly/1_5gaoqxds

9:50 AM → 10:40 AM Mark Krumholz (ANU, Australia): The Origin of Stellar Masses

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/8.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Mark_Krumholz/1_4tgzquil

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM break

11:10 AM → 11:45 AM Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam): Extreme measures for extremal black holes

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/8.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Alejandra_Castro/1_1f0pw1vg

11:45 AM → 12:35 PM Lance Dixon (Stanford): Polylogs for Polygons: Bootstrapping Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/6.pptx

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Lance_Dixon/1_7mg0g0lu

12:35 PM → 1:10 PM discussion

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Discussion_3/1_4nsqlwia

1:10 PM → 2:10 PM lunch

2:10 PM → 3:00 PM John Ellis (CERN/KCL): Where are we going?

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/3.pptx

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/John_Ellis/1_w6ollumr

3:00 PM → 3:50 PM Eiichiro Komatsu (Max-Planck Inst. for Astrophysics): Position-dependent Power Spectrum

slides https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/23/material/0/2.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Eiichiro_Komatsu/1_o1md20u0

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM break

4:20 PM → 4:55 PM Licia Verde (University of Barcelona): Precision cosmology, now what?

slides Licia_Verde2016.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Licia_Verde/1_uh0harct

4:55 PM → 5:45 PM Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University): Theory of Force Transmission and Rigidity in Granular Systems

slides Bulbul_Chakrabarty.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Bulbul_Chakraborty/1_4sc61nro

5:45 PM → 6:15 PM discussion

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Discussion_4/1_oo83n3s9

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM conference dinner

Friday, January 13

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM David Kaplan (University of Washington): Chiral Gauge Theory

slides Kaplan_Chiral_Gauge_Theory.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/David_Kaplan/1_gnhrmy6t

9:50 AM → 10:40 AM Neil Turok (Perimeter): Quantum Universe

slides Neil_TurokTalkfinalpdf.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM break

11:10 AM → 12:00 PM Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford): Random tensor networks and quantum gravity

slides XiaoliangQi.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Xiaoliang_Qi/1_8o9cgl1w

12:00 PM → 12:50 PM Yann LeCun (New York University): Deep Learning

slides lecun-nditp.pdf

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Yann_Le_Cun/1_ztwf7od3

12:50 PM → 1:30 PM discussion & close

video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Discussion5/1_lxrwfkko

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch