Symmetries of S-matrix and Infrared Physics

16 Jul 2018, 09:00 → 18 Jul 2018, 18:00 UTC

Higgs Centre Seminar Room (JCMB)

Dhritiman Nandan (The University of Edinburgh)

Monday, 16 July

1 Coffee/Welcome

2 The many faces of (next-to-) soft physics

Speaker: Chris White

Slides edinburgh18-White.pdf

3 Soft Theorems for Massless Particles from Gauge Invariance

Speaker: Paolo Di Vecchia

Slides edinburgh18-DiVecchia.pdf

12:00 Lunch

15:00 Coffee

4 Hidden Conformal Symmetry in Tree-Level Graviton Scattering

Speaker: Florian Loebbert

Slides edinburgh18-Loebbert.pdf

5 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

Tuesday, 17 July

09:45 Coffee

6 Black Hole Entropy form Soft Hair

Speaker: Malcolm Perry

Slides edinburgh-18-perry.pdf

7 Some remarks on IR physics

Speaker: Cesar Gomez

Slides Edimburgo.pdf

12:00 lunch

15:00 Coffee

8 Soft-theorem Constraints on EFT

Speaker: Congkao Wen

Slides slides-wen.pdf

19:00 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday, 18 July

09:45 Coffee

9 TBA

Speaker: Anastasia Volovich

10 S-matrix uniqueness from soft theorems

Speaker: Laurentiu Rodina

Slides edinburgh-rodina.pdf

12:00 Lunch

15:00 Coffee

11 Amplitudes from superconformal Ward identities

Speaker: Dmitry Chicherin

Slides PresentationEdinburghJuly2018.pdf

12 Conformal Higher Spin Theory - Amplitudes and Conserved Charges

Speaker: Tristan McLoughlin

Slides CHS.pdf