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:

Day 1 -

ATM Day 1 - Zoom Link

Day 2 -

ATM Day 2 - Zoom Link  

Day 3 - 

ATM Day 3 - Zoom 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)

 

 

ATMposter2024.jpg

Monday 16 December

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Session 1

Convener: Jeppe Andersen (IPPP, University of Durham)

14:00 Prospects of the HL-LHC

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (University of Edinburgh)

sinead_thdurham_161224.pptx

15:00 Numerical relativity for fundamental physics

Speaker: Katy Clough (Kings College London)

Durham24_Clough.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 Session 2

Convener: Simon Ross

16:30 Random Matrix Theory & 2d CFT

Speaker: Eric Perlmutter

IPPP Annual Meeting Perlmutter final, 12.16.24.pptx

17:30 Black hole states

Speaker: Roberto Emparan

Microstates_Durham.pdf

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

UK_NP_IPPP_2024.pdf

10:00 Synergies between Nuclear and Particle Theoy

Speaker: Felix Ringer

Durham24_FRinger.pdf

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)

Axiverse2024.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Session 5

Convener: Steven Abel (IPPP)

14:00 The Double Copy Theory

Speaker: Christopher White

white_chris.pdf

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

Speaker: Herbi Dreiner (University of Bonn)

Dreiner-Bell-ATM-17-12-2024.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Session 6

Convener: Peter Richardson (IPPP)

16:30 Ride the ML-Wave or Drown?

Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

ippp_24.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday 18 December

08:30 → 09:15 Breakfast

09:30 → 10:30 Session 7

Convener: Danny van Dyk (IPPP Durham)

09:30 Gravity Effective Field Theories

Speaker: Claudia De Rham

Annual_Theory_Meeting_Durham_Dec_2024.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 8

Convener: Michael Spannowsky (IPPP, Durham University)

11:00 PPAP

PPAP_2024.pdf

11:30 STFC Townhall Meeting

Speakers: Grahame Blair, Karen Clifford

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch