Symmetries of S-matrix and Infrared Physics

Jul 16, 2018, 9:00 AM → Jul 18, 2018, 6:00 PM UTC

Higgs Centre Seminar Room (JCMB)

Dhritiman Nandan (The University of Edinburgh)

Mon, July 16

9:45 AM → 10:00 AM Coffee/Welcome

10:00 AM → 10:45 AM The many faces of (next-to-) soft physics

Speaker: Chris White

Slides edinburgh18-White.pdf

10:45 AM → 11:30 AM Soft Theorems for Massless Particles from Gauge Invariance

Speaker: Paolo Di Vecchia

Slides edinburgh18-DiVecchia.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee

3:30 PM → 4:15 PM Hidden Conformal Symmetry in Tree-Level Graviton Scattering

Speaker: Florian Loebbert

Slides edinburgh18-Loebbert.pdf

4:15 PM → 5:00 PM From null geodesics to gravitational scattering :An alternative route from BMS to soft theorems via ambitwistor strings

Speaker: Lionel Mason

Slides ambi-IR-Higgs.pdf

Tue, July 17

9:45 AM → 10:00 AM Coffee

10:00 AM → 10:45 AM Black Hole Entropy form Soft Hair

Speaker: Malcolm Perry

Slides edinburgh-18-perry.pdf

10:45 AM → 11:30 AM Some remarks on IR physics

Speaker: Cesar Gomez

Slides Edimburgo.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM lunch

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee

4:15 PM → 5:00 PM Soft-theorem Constraints on EFT

Speaker: Congkao Wen

Slides slides-wen.pdf

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Workshop Dinner

Wed, July 18

9:45 AM → 10:00 AM Coffee

10:00 AM → 10:45 AM TBA

Speaker: Anastasia Volovich

10:45 AM → 11:30 AM S-matrix uniqueness from soft theorems

Speaker: Laurentiu Rodina

Slides edinburgh-rodina.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee

3:30 PM → 4:15 PM Amplitudes from superconformal Ward identities

Speaker: Dmitry Chicherin

Slides PresentationEdinburghJuly2018.pdf

4:15 PM → 5:00 PM Conformal Higher Spin Theory - Amplitudes and Conserved Charges

Speaker: Tristan McLoughlin

Slides CHS.pdf