New Directions in Theoretical Physics 3

from Wednesday, 9 January 2019 (08:00) to Friday, 11 January 2019 (18:10)
50 George Square

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Jan 2019
10 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019
AM
09:00
Session 1 (until 09:45) (G.03)
09:00 'Modern approaches to precision computations in the LHC era' - Claude Duhr (CERN and UC Louvain)   (G.03)
09:45
Session 1 (until 10:30) ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 1 (until 11:45) (G.03)
11:00 'A new twist on multifield inflation' - Ana Achúcarro (Leiden Univ. / Univ. of the Basque Country UPV-EHU)   (G.03)
11:45
Session 1 (until 12:30) (G.03)
11:45 'Physics under the Gravitational Rainbow' - Claudia de Rham (Imperial College London)   (G.03)
09:00
Session 3 (until 09:45) (G.03)
09:00 'Physics of Biological Tissues' - Prof. Jean-Francois Joanny   (G.03)
09:45
Session 3 (until 10:30) (G.03)
09:45 'Extreme Value Statistics for Random Matrices - Satya Majumdar (Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay)   (G.03)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 3 (until 11:45) (G.03)
11:45
Session 3 (until 12:30) (G.03)
09:00
Session 5 (until 09:45) (G.03)
09:00 'Making a place for perturbation theory in the non-perturbative strong interactions' - George Sterman (YITP, Stony Brook)   (G.03)
09:45
Session 5 (until 10:30) (G.03)
09:45 'Universal low temperature theory of charged black holes and SYK models of strange metals' - Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)   (G.03)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 6 (until 11:45) (G.03)
11:45
Session 6 (until 12:30) (G.03)
11:45 'Quantum tensor networks for modelling quantum many body wavefunctions' - Frank Verstraete (Ghent University)   (G.03)
PM
12:30
Session 1 (until 13:00) (G.03)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Session 2 (until 14:45) ()
14:00 'The hunt for the first black holes' - Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University)   ()
14:45
Session 2 (until 15:30) ()
14:45 'Searching for Dark Matter in Time Domain Astronomy' - Neal Weiner (New York University)   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Session 2 (until 16:45) (G.03)
16:00 'Prospects for physics at future colliders' - John Ellis (Kings College London)   (G.03)
16:45
Session 2 (until 17:30) (G.03)
16:45 'The hierarchy problem: Exotic signatures from exotic solutions' - Matthew Mccullough (CERN and Cambridge)   (G.03)
17:30
Session 2 (until 18:00) (G.03)
18:30 --- Reception ---
19:30
Public Lecture (until 20:30) ()
19:30 "The End of Spacetime" -- a Public Lecture by Nima Arkani-Hamed - Arkani-Hamed Nima (IAS, Princeton)   ()
12:30
Session 3 (until 13:00) (G.03)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Session 4 (until 14:45) (G.03)
14:00 'Asymptotic symmetries and charges in general relativity' - Eanna Flannagan (Cornell University)   (G.03)
14:45
Session 4 (until 15:30) ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Session 4 (until 16:45) (G.03)
16:45
Session 4 (until 17:15) (G.03)
19:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30
Session 5 (until 13:00) (G.03)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Session 6 (until 14:45) (G.03)
14:00 'Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics' - Chris Jarzynski (University of Maryland)   (G.03)
14:45
Session 6 (until 15:30) (G.03)
14:45 'From stochastic thermodynamics to thermodynamic inference' - Udo Seifert (Stuttgart University)   (G.03)
15:30
Session 6 (until 16:00) (G.03)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---