Annual Theory Meeting & STFC Town Meeting

15 Dec 2014, 14:00 → 17 Dec 2014, 17:45 Europe/London

Appleby Lecture Theatre

Valya Khoze (IPPP)

The Annual Theory Christmas Meeting will again be held in Durham 15-17 December, hosted by the Centre for Particle Theory and organized by 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. The Annual Theory Meeting is followed by the STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting on December 17.

Monday, 15 December

14:15 → 15:15 Physics with ATLAS and CMS at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Slides deroeck_Durham_xmas_final.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 break

16:00 → 17:00 The Higgs Boson and Beyond

Speaker: Prof. Tao Han (Pittsburgh)

Tuesday, 16 December

09:00 → 10:00 Resurgence, Trans-series and Non-Perturbative Physics

Speaker: Prof. Gerald Dunne (U Connecticut)

Slides dunne-resurgence-durham-2014.pdf

10:15 → 11:15 Conformal bootstrap - a new way to compute in quantum field theory

Speaker: Prof. Slava Rychkov (UPMC)

Slides Rychkov_Durham.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 break

12:00 → 13:00 Physics with LHCb

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

13:15 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 SUSY Higgses: what to look out for in the LHC Run II

Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (IFCA (CSIC))

Slides sven.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 break

16:30 → 17:30 Advances in QCD and Higgs phenomenology

Speaker: Prof. Babis Anastasiou (ETH)

Slides DurhamTheoryMeeting2014_Anastasiou.pdf

Wednesday, 17 December

09:00 → 10:00 Cosmology in 2014

Speaker: Dr Clare Burrage (Nottingham)

10:15 → 10:45 break

10:45 → 12:25 STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting