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 Lunch

Session 1

Convener: Dave Dunbar (Swansea)

1 New results for parton showers

Speaker: Gavin Salam (Oxford)

IPPP-salam-parton-showers.pdf

2 Scattering amplitudes and Landau singularities

Speaker: Anastasia Volovich (Brown)

2018-12-durham.pdf

16:00 Break

Session 2

Convener: Thomas Teubner (Liverpool)

3 Recent results in Flavour Physics

Speaker: Monica Pepe-Altarelli (CERN)

MPA_IPPP_2018.opt.pdf

4 Theoretical Aspects of Flavour Physics

Speaker: Martin Bauer (IPPP, Durham)

ATM_Durham.pdf

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 18 December

08:00 Breakfast

Session 1

Convener: Carlos Nunez (Swansea)

5 Recent results in Black Hole Physics

Speaker: Kyriakos Papadodimas (ICTP)

Durham_ATM_2018_Papadodimas.pdf

6 TTbar deformed Quantum field theory

Speaker: David Kutasov (University of Chicago)

kutasov.pdf

11:00 Break

Session 4

Convener: James Drummond (Southampton)

7 Boundary and defects in Quantum Field Theory

Speaker: Christopher Herzog (Kings College, London)

durhamtalkforexport.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Session 5

Convener: Veronica Sanz (Sussex)

8 Physics beyond colliders

Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel (Heidelberg)

atm-JJ.pdf

9 Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBL/CERN)

18_Durham_Zurek.pdf

16:00 Break

Session 6

Convener: Edward Corrigan (York)

10 De Sitter solutions and quantum gravity

Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge)

DurhamAnnualMeeting2018.pdf

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 19 December

08:00 Breakfast

Session 7

Convener: Ben Allanach (Cambridge)

11 Multi-messenger Astrophysics

Speaker: Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)

durham2018_halzen.pdf

durham2018_halzen.pptx

10:00 Break

Session 8

Convener: Keith Ellis (Durham)

12 STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting

Speaker: Mark Thomson (STFC)

Theoretical PP Forum 19Dec18 - Final slides.pptx

13 Particle Physics Grants Panel (Theory)

Speaker: Nick Evans (Southampton)

Durham_CG_18.pdf

14 Education,Training and Careers committee

Speaker: Sebastian Oliver (Sussex)

ETCC Presentation for CAP.pdf

15 Discussion

IPPP2018.pdf

13:00 Lunch