Annual Theory Meeting & STFC Town Meeting

17 Dec 2018, 08:55 → 19 Dec 2018, 16:35 Europe/London

Applebey Lecture Theatre

Keith+1 Ellis (IPPP)

The Annual Theory Christmas Meeting will again be held in Durham, 17-19th 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 19th December, 2018.

poster poster2018.jpg

Monday, 17 December

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Session 1

Convener: Dave Dunbar (Swansea)

14:00 New results for parton showers

Speaker: Gavin Salam (Oxford)

IPPP-salam-parton-showers.pdf

15:00 Scattering amplitudes and Landau singularities

Speaker: Anastasia Volovich (Brown)

2018-12-durham.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:30 Session 2

Convener: Thomas Teubner (Liverpool)

16:35 Recent results in Flavour Physics

Speaker: Monica Pepe-Altarelli (CERN)

MPA_IPPP_2018.opt.pdf

17:20 Theoretical Aspects of Flavour Physics

Speaker: Martin Bauer (IPPP, Durham)

ATM_Durham.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 18 December

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

09:00 → 11:00 Session 1

Convener: Carlos Nunez (Swansea)

09:00 Recent results in Black Hole Physics

Speaker: Kyriakos Papadodimas (ICTP)

Durham_ATM_2018_Papadodimas.pdf

09:50 TTbar deformed Quantum field theory

Speaker: David Kutasov (University of Chicago)

kutasov.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Session 4

Convener: James Drummond (Southampton)

11:30 Boundary and defects in Quantum Field Theory

Speaker: Christopher Herzog (Kings College, London)

durhamtalkforexport.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Session 5

Convener: Veronica Sanz (Sussex)

14:00 Physics beyond colliders

Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel (Heidelberg)

atm-JJ.pdf

14:45 Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBL/CERN)

18_Durham_Zurek.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:30 Session 6

Convener: Edward Corrigan (York)

16:35 De Sitter solutions and quantum gravity

Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge)

DurhamAnnualMeeting2018.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 19 December

08:00 → 08:55 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:00 Session 7

Convener: Ben Allanach (Cambridge)

09:00 Multi-messenger Astrophysics

Speaker: Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)

durham2018_halzen.pdf

durham2018_halzen.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Break

10:30 → 13:00 Session 8

Convener: Keith Ellis (Durham)

10:30 STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting

Speaker: Mark Thomson (STFC)

Theoretical PP Forum 19Dec18 - Final slides.pptx

11:30 Particle Physics Grants Panel (Theory)

Speaker: Nick Evans (Southampton)

Durham_CG_18.pdf

11:50 Education,Training and Careers committee

Speaker: Sebastian Oliver (Sussex)

ETCC Presentation for CAP.pdf

12:10 Discussion

IPPP2018.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch