Annual Theory Meeting & STFC Town Meeting

Dec 17, 2018, 8:55 AM → Dec 19, 2018, 4:35 PM 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.

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Mon, December 17

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Session 1

Convener: Dave Dunbar (Swansea)

2:00 PM New results for parton showers

Speaker: Gavin Salam (Oxford)

IPPP-salam-parton-showers.pdf

3:00 PM Scattering amplitudes and Landau singularities

Speaker: Anastasia Volovich (Brown)

2018-12-durham.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Session 2

Convener: Thomas Teubner (Liverpool)

4:35 PM Recent results in Flavour Physics

Speaker: Monica Pepe-Altarelli (CERN)

MPA_IPPP_2018.opt.pdf

5:20 PM Theoretical Aspects of Flavour Physics

Speaker: Martin Bauer (IPPP, Durham)

ATM_Durham.pdf

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Dinner

Tue, December 18

8:00 AM → 8:30 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 11:00 AM Session 1

Convener: Carlos Nunez (Swansea)

9:00 AM Recent results in Black Hole Physics

Speaker: Kyriakos Papadodimas (ICTP)

Durham_ATM_2018_Papadodimas.pdf

9:50 AM TTbar deformed Quantum field theory

Speaker: David Kutasov (University of Chicago)

kutasov.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 4

Convener: James Drummond (Southampton)

11:30 AM Boundary and defects in Quantum Field Theory

Speaker: Christopher Herzog (Kings College, London)

durhamtalkforexport.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Session 5

Convener: Veronica Sanz (Sussex)

2:00 PM Physics beyond colliders

Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel (Heidelberg)

atm-JJ.pdf

2:45 PM Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBL/CERN)

18_Durham_Zurek.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Session 6

Convener: Edward Corrigan (York)

4:35 PM De Sitter solutions and quantum gravity

Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge)

DurhamAnnualMeeting2018.pdf

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Dinner

Wed, December 19

8:00 AM → 8:55 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Session 7

Convener: Ben Allanach (Cambridge)

9:00 AM Multi-messenger Astrophysics

Speaker: Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)

durham2018_halzen.pdf

durham2018_halzen.pptx

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Break

10:30 AM → 1:00 PM Session 8

Convener: Keith Ellis (Durham)

10:30 AM STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting

Speaker: Mark Thomson (STFC)

Theoretical PP Forum 19Dec18 - Final slides.pptx

11:30 AM Particle Physics Grants Panel (Theory)

Speaker: Nick Evans (Southampton)

Durham_CG_18.pdf

11:50 AM Education,Training and Careers committee

Speaker: Sebastian Oliver (Sussex)

ETCC Presentation for CAP.pdf

12:10 PM Discussion

IPPP2018.pdf

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch