Amplitudes

10 Jul 2017, 08:00 → 14 Jul 2017, 18:00 Europe/London

Higgs Centre, The University of Edinburgh

Anastasia Volovich (Brown University), Chris White (Queen Mary University of London), Claude Duhr (CERN and Université catholique de Louvain), Donal O'Connell (University of Edinburgh), Einan Gardi (The University of Edinburgh), Gregory Korchemsky (CEA, Saclay), Lance Dixon (SLAC, Stanford University), Lorenzo Magnea (Turin University), Lyndsey Ballantyne (University of Edinburgh), Nigel Glover, Ruth Britto (Trinity College Dublin and CEA, Saclay), Simon Badger (The University of Edinburgh), Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz University)

 

During the last few years the analytic study of scattering amplitudes has flourished due to a vivid interaction between high-energy physics and mathematics. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading experts working on novel methods for scattering amplitudes in perturbative gauge theory, gravity theories and string theory, reaching from formal developments to phenomenological applications. The meeting will combine several review presentations with shorter talks to discuss promising developments in this quickly evolving field. We hope that this will help forging new ideas and further boost the field. The topics include:

• Mathematical structure of scattering amplitudes
• Integrals and integrands of perturbative quantum field theories
• Scattering amplitudes in (super)gravity and their ultraviolet behaviour
• Gauge/gravity dualities, AdS/CFT integrability, Wilson loops and strong-coupling results
• The long-distance singularity structure of gauge-theory amplitudes
• String amplitudes and their implications for field theory
• Developments related to the analytic S-matrix approach

 

Invited speakers

Anastasia Volovich Andreas Brandhuber Andreas Von Manteuffel Andrew Strominger Arthur Lipstein Ben Page Bernhard Mistlberger Burkhard Eden David Broadhurst

Dmitry Chicherin Emil Bjerrum-Bohr Enrico Herrmann Francis Brown Gang Yang Georgios Papathanasiou Henrik Johansson Humberto Gomez Johannes Henn

Leonardo Vernazza Livia Ferro Lorenzo Tancredi Luise Adams Miguel Paulos Nima Arkani-Hamed Oliver Schlotterer Pierre Vanhove Piotr Tourkine

Radu Roiban Roman Lee Rutger Boels Samuel Abreu Song He Stephen Naculich Tiziano Peraro Walter Goldberger Yuntao Bai

The schedule can be found here.

Directions to Appleton Tower and other relevant locations can be found here and the building on the campus map is here

Delegate Discounts: You will be provided with an Edinburgh Rewards Passport at the registration desk, this gives access to over 100 discounts and exclusive offers at a selection of the city’s restaurants, bars, tourist attractions and pre booked taxis. Details of the discounts are on the webpage www.edinburghrewards.com as well as the printed passport.

The conference will be proceeded by a Summer School on advanced topics in scattering amplitudes, aimed primarily at PhD students working in the field. More senior participants are welcome to register as well!

Amplitudes Conference Series

This event is the continuation of a sequence of conferences started in 2009.

• 2009: IPPP, Durham
• 2010: Queen Mary University of London
• 2011: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• 2012: DESY, Hamburg
• 2013: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
• 2014: IPhT Saclay
• 2015: Zürich
• 2016: Nordita, Stockholm

The next conference in this series, after Edinburgh, will be:

• 2018: SLAC/Stanford

International Advisory Committee Ruth Britto (Dublin) Lance Dixon (SLAC) Gregory Korchemsky (Saclay) Lorenzo Magnea (Torino) Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz)

Local Organisers Simon Badger (IPPP, Durham) Claude Duhr (CERN) Einan Gardi (Edinburgh) Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham) Donal O'Connell (Edinburgh)

Poster

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