Name: New Directions in Theoretical Physics 3
Start: 2019-01-09T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2019-01-11T18:10:00+00:00
Location: 50 George Square

New Directions in Theoretical Physics 3

from Wednesday 9 January 2019 (08:00) to Friday 11 January 2019 (18:10)

Monday 7 January 2019
Tuesday 8 January 2019
Wednesday 9 January 2019
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Room: G.03
Contributions

09:00 'Modern approaches to precision computations in the LHC era' - Claude Duhr (CERN and UC Louvain)
09:45

09:45 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:45
Room: G.03
Contributions

11:00 'A new twist on multifield inflation' - Ana Achúcarro (Leiden Univ. / Univ. of the Basque Country UPV-EHU)
11:45
11:45 - 12:30
Room: G.03
Contributions

11:45 'Physics under the Gravitational Rainbow' - Claudia de Rham (Imperial College London)
12:30 Discussion
Discussion
12:30 - 13:00
Room: G.03

13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 14:45
Contributions

14:00 'The hunt for the first black holes' - Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University)
14:45
14:45 - 15:30
Contributions

14:45 'Searching for Dark Matter in Time Domain Astronomy' - Neal Weiner (New York University)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:45
Room: G.03
Contributions

16:00 'Prospects for physics at future colliders' - John Ellis (Kings College London)
16:45
16:45 - 17:30
Room: G.03
Contributions

16:45 'The hierarchy problem: Exotic signatures from exotic solutions' - Matthew Mccullough (CERN and Cambridge)
17:30 Discussion
Discussion
17:30 - 18:00
Room: G.03

18:30 Reception
Reception
18:30 - 19:30
19:30
19:30 - 20:30
Contributions

19:30 "The End of Spacetime" -- a Public Lecture by Nima Arkani-Hamed - Arkani-Hamed Nima (IAS, Princeton)
Thursday 10 January 2019
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Room: G.03
Contributions

09:00 'Physics of Biological Tissues' - Jean-Francois Joanny
09:45
09:45 - 10:30
Room: G.03
Contributions

09:45 'Extreme Value Statistics for Random Matrices - Satya Majumdar (Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00

11:00 - 11:45
Room: G.03

11:45

11:45 - 12:30
Room: G.03

12:30 Discussion
Discussion
12:30 - 13:00
Room: G.03

13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 14:45
Room: G.03
Contributions

14:00 'Asymptotic symmetries and charges in general relativity' - Eanna Flannagan (Cornell University)
14:45

14:45 - 15:30

15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 16:45
Room: G.03

16:45 Discussion
Discussion
16:45 - 17:15
Room: G.03

19:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Friday 11 January 2019
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Room: G.03
Contributions

09:00 'Making a place for perturbation theory in the non-perturbative strong interactions' - George Sterman (YITP, Stony Brook)
09:45
09:45 - 10:30
Room: G.03
Contributions

09:45 'Universal low temperature theory of charged black holes and SYK models of strange metals' - Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00

11:00 - 11:45
Room: G.03
11:45
11:45 - 12:30
Room: G.03
Contributions

11:45 'Quantum tensor networks for modelling quantum many body wavefunctions' - Frank Verstraete (Ghent University)
12:30 Discussion
Discussion
12:30 - 13:00
Room: G.03

13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 14:45
Room: G.03
Contributions

14:00 'Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics' - Chris Jarzynski (University of Maryland)
14:45
14:45 - 15:30
Room: G.03
Contributions

14:45 'From stochastic thermodynamics to thermodynamic inference' - Udo Seifert (Stuttgart University)
15:30 Discussion
Discussion
15:30 - 16:00
Room: G.03

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30

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