Annual Theory Meeting & STFC Town Meeting

20 Dec 2015, 12:00 → 22 Dec 2015, 14:45 Europe/London

Appleby Lecture Theatre

Keith+1 Ellis (IPPP)

The Annual Theory Christmas Meeting will again be held in Durham 20-22 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 22.

Sunday, 20 December

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 CERN program 2016-2020

Speaker: Eckhard Elsen (DESY/CERN)

Slides CERN_programme.pdf

15:00 → 15:45 Future Circular Colliders

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides Mangano-IPPP.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 break

16:30 → 17:15 Direct Dark Matter Detection

Speaker: Richard Gaitskell (Brown)

Slides 151220_Gaitskell_DM_Durham_v02.pdf

19:00 → 19:15 Dinner

Monday, 21 December

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:45 Isospin breaking and QED effects in lattice calculations

Speaker: Antonin Portelli (Southampton)

Slides portelli_atm.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 Review of deviations in Flavour Physics

Speaker: David Straub (Tech. U Munich)

Slides straub-durham15.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 break

11:30 → 12:15 BSM roundup

Speaker: Riccardo Ratazzi (EPFL Lausanne)

Slides Durham2.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Lepton Flavour Physics

Speaker: Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern)

Slides UK_th_meeting_nus.pdf

15:00 → 15:45 Holography and Entanglement

Speaker: Jan de Boer (U van Amsterdam)

16:00 → 16:30 break

16:30 → 17:15 Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics

Speaker: Kirone Mallick (CEA-Saclay)

Slides DURHAM-ATM.pdf

19:00 → 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 22 December

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:45 Advances in N=4 Supersymmetric theories

Speaker: Benjamin Basso (ENS, Paris)

Slides Durham_2105.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 11:30 STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting

Speakers: Grahame Blair (STFC), Hands Simon (Swansea), Tara Shears (Liverpool)

11:30 → 12:30 Discussion

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch