Annual Theory Meeting

16 Dec 2024, 09:00 → 18 Dec 2024, 18:00 Europe/London

Applebey Lecture Theatre (Geography )

Michael Spannowsky (IPPP, Durham University)

The Annual Theory Christmas Meeting will again be held in Durham, 16-18th of December, hosted and organised by the Centre for Particle Theory, UKLFT, FPUK and the IPPP. Following tradition, we use the format of three days of talks from world-class speakers reviewing the latest developments in the key areas of our subject. 

 

 

Organisation Committee:

Steve Abel (IPPP) 

Jeppe Andersen (IPPP) 

Francesca Chadha-Day (IPPP) 

Simon Hands (Liverpool) 

Neil Lambert (KCL) 

Simon Ross (CPT Maths Durham) 

Michael Spannowsky (IPPP) 

Jessica Turner (IPPP)

 

All sessions of the 57th edition of the Annual Theory Meeting can be attended remotely via zoom using this link:

 

However, it will not be possible to ask the speaker questions or to unmute yourself. Questions can be submitted via zoom chat.

 

Confirmed speakers are:

Katy Clough (Queen Mary)

Claudia de Rham (Imperial)

Herbi Dreiner (Bonn)

Roberto Emparan (Barcelona)

Sinead Farrington (STFC, Edinburgh)

David Ireland (Glasgow)

David Marsh (KCL)

Eric Perlmutter (IHES)

Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg)

Felix Ringer (Stoney Brook)

Christopher White (Queen Mary)

 

 

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Monday, 16 December

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Session 1

Convener: Jessica Turner (IPPP, Durham University)

14:00 Prospects of the HL-LHC

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (University of Edinburgh)

15:00 Numerical relativity for fundamental physics

Speaker: Katy Clough (Kings College London)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 Session 2

Convener: Jeppe Andersen (IPPP, University of Durham)

16:30 Random Matrix Theory & 2d CFT

Speaker: Eric Perlmutter

17:30 Black hole states

Speaker: Roberto Emparan

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 17 December

08:00 → 08:45 Breakfast

09:00 → 11:00 Session 3

Convener: Martin Bauer (IPPP Durham)

09:00 Overview of UK's nuclear physics programme

Speaker: David Ireland

10:00 Synergies between Nuclear and Particle Theoy

Speaker: Felix Ringer

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Session 4

Convener: Francesca Chadha-Day (Durham University)

11:30 Axion phenomenology

Speaker: David Marsh (King's College London)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Session 5

Convener: Steven Abel (IPPP)

14:00 The Double Copy Theory

Speaker: Christopher White

15:00 Testing locality via Bell’s Inequality or Entanglement at Colliders?

Speaker: Herbi Dreiner (University of Bonn)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Session 6

Convener: Danny van Dyk (IPPP Durham)

16:30 Ride the ML-Wave or Drown?

Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 18 December

08:30 → 09:15 Breakfast

09:30 → 10:30 Session 7

Convener: Nabil Iqbal

09:30 Gravity Effective Field Theories

Speaker: Claudia De Rham

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 8

Convener: Michael Spannowsky (IPPP, Durham University)

11:00 PPAP

11:30 STFC Townhall Meeting

Speakers: Grahame Blair, Karen Clifford

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch