Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics 2024
The 9th edition of the Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics will take place from 27-31 May 2024. The scientific programme starts at 9:00 on Monday 27th, and ends at 17:30 on Friday 31st.
The School comprises two in-depth lecture series, each involving five 2-hours lectures delivered on the blackboard, and a similar number of tutorials.
For this year's School our two lecturers will be Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut) and Iñaki García Etxebarria (University of Durham).
Philip Mannheim – Pedagogical Introduction to Gravity and General Relativity
Starting from a pedagogical introduction and first principles these five lectures will discuss current open problems in gravity and cosmology as well as some original solutions to them. Material Covered: Gravity, cosmology and the problem of motion from the ancient Greeks to Newton to Einstein. Special relativity. General relativity. Curvature. Classic tests of general relativity. Gravity waves. Black holes. Newtonian cosmology. Big Bang theory. Inflation. Dark matter. Dark energy. Accelerating universe.
Iñaki García Etxebarria - Generalised Symmetries and Anomalies
In the last few years it has become clear that it is useful to generalise the textbook definition of symmetry, as a transformation of the fields which leaves the action invariant, to a more general notion (going under the name "categorical symmetries") more naturally formulated in the language of topological field theory. In these introductory lectures I will motivate this generalisation, and then explain some basic features of this emerging new viewpoint on symmetries, including how we understand anomalies in this new picture.
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Abhishek Rajak
Adam Clark
Aditya Basu
Aikaterini Nikou
Alexander Forrest
Alexander Morozov
Alisha Marriott-Best
Arpit Das
Arwa Musallam
Aum Rawal
Aya Ghaleb
Benjamin Izett
Bin Zhu
Crow TAO
Daniel Quiles Pastor
Daniele Ceppi
David Cueto Noval
Davide Marenduzzo
Deep Sagar
Des Johnston
Diego Hernandez Kent
Dogan Akpinar
Dominik Rist
Duoen Shou
Durrah Alessa
Gian Luigi Paganini
Gianni Gaglairdo
Giorgio Frangi
Girish Vishwa
Giulia Borghetto
Haoyu Sun
Harshvardhan Solanki
Hong-Gang Yang
Idrus Husin Belfaqih
Iustin Surubaru
Iñaki García Etxebarria
James Rucinski
Jan Kocka
Janna Machts
Jarah Fluxman
Jeffrey Kuntz
Jingyi Xu
Kerr Maxwell
Leyli Mammadova
Lilian Crascall-Kennedy
Loïc Bramley
Maegan Anderson
Maria Polackova
Mark Thomas
Matej Bajec
Mathias Enderle
Matthew Oxley
Mehul Depala
Mile Vrbica
Moatasem Hassan
Muhammad Fikri Hasan
Nasser Bin Shahbal
Natália Mihoková
Nayeli Marisol Jimenez Cruz
Pablo Morande
Philip Mannheim
Qiyue Hu
Ran Huo
Raya Mancheva
Rui Xian Siew
Saba Rahimy
Sam Bateman
Sam Mulligan
Satria Widyanto
Sebastien MacDonald
Seyed Hamidreza Mirpoorian
Soma Elek
Souhib Benzahia
Subrabalan Murugesan
Suvadeep Roy
Thilo Nolden
Tristan Jacquel
Ugnius Igaris
Vatsalya Vaibhav
William Lindved
Xiancong Luo
Xinhang Yan
Yashawantha Y.P
Yat Wong
Yuyu Mo
Zehao Zhu
Zizang Qiu