Annual Theory Meeting & STFC Town Meeting

18 Dec 2017, 07:05 → 20 Dec 2017, 14:45 Europe/London

Applebey Lecture Theatre

Keith+1 Ellis (IPPP)

The Annual Theory Christmas Meeting will again be held in Durham, 18-20th 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 20th December, 2017.

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Monday, 18 December

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Session 1

Convener: Dr Benjamin Allanach (University of Cambridge)

14:00 Heavy Flavour anomalies

Speaker: Joaquim Matias (IFAE, Barcelona)

Slides 1-durham_QM.pdf

15:05 → 15:35 break

15:35 → 17:30 Session 2

Convener: Dave Dunbar

15:35 The Simplicity of Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Jacob Bourjaily (Niels Bohr & Santa Barbara)

Slides bourjaily_durham_xmas.pdf

16:20 Turning the screws on the Standard Model : theory predictions for the muon g-2

Speaker: Christine Davies (Glasgow)

Slides 3-durham-a-mu.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 19 December

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:45 Session 3

Convener: Steve King (Southampton)

09:00 Status of light dark sectors

Speaker: Brian Batell (Pittsburgh)

Slides Durham-Batell.pdf

09:45 Cosmology and DES

Speaker: Scott Dodelson (Carnegie Mellon)

11:00 → 11:30 break

11:30 → 12:25 Session 4

Convener: Jeff Forshaw

11:30 Effective field theory for QCD processes

Speaker: Thomas Becher (Bern)

Slides Durham_Xmas.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:55 Session 5

Convener: Prof. Steven Abel (IPPP)

14:00 Recent developments in Analytic bootstrap

Speaker: Alexander Zhiboedov (Harvard)

Slides Durham_Zhiboedov.pdf

14:45 Aspects of geometric phases in QFT

Speaker: Vasileios Niarchos (Durham)

Slides ATM_Durham_2017_Niarchos.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 break

16:30 → 17:30 Session 6

Convener: Steve King (Southampton)

16:30 Dark Matter Indirect searches

Speaker: Marco Cirelli (LPTHE)

Slides 03.DMid.UKTheoryMeeting_Durham.pdf

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 20 December

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:15 Session 7

Convener: Dr Frank krauss (ippp durham)

09:00 Results from LHC and plans for high-luminosity LHC

Speaker: David Newbold (Bristol)

Slides LHC_update.pdf

10:00 Update of European Strategy (2020)

Speaker: Prof. Keith Ellis (IPPP)

Ellis_ATM.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:30 Session 8

Convener: Dr Frank Krauss (ippp durham)

10:30 STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting

11:30 Discussion

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch