QCD Meets Gravity 2024

8 Dec 2024, 09:00 → 13 Dec 2024, 19:00 Asia/Taipei

Chia-Hsien Shen (National Taiwan University), Daniel Baumann, Yu-tin Huang (National Taiwan University)

This year's "QCD Meets Gravity" will be hosted by the Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (LeCosPA) and the Center for Theorical Physics (CTP) at National Taiwan University (NTU). This is the tenth in an annual series of meetings for researchers interested in Yang-Mills theory, in gravity, and in the connections between them. It is the first time the conference will be held in Asia.

In addition to the conference, LeCosPA will be hosting a workshop on "Cosmological Correlators" from Dec 2 to 6, 2024.

Organizers:

• Daniel Baumann
• Song He
• Yu-tin Huang
• Sangmin Lee
• Ue-Li Pen
• Chia-Hsien Shen

Sunday 8 December

17:00 Reception

Monday 9 December

1 Openinig Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Baumann

Welcome.pdf

2 The Ins and Outs of Cosmological Correlators

Speaker: Dr Enrico Pajer (University of Cambridge)

Enrico-Pajer.pdf

3 Tidal Love Numbers from Gravitational Raman Scattering

Speaker: Julio Parra-Martinez (University of British Columbia)

ParraMartinez.pdf

10:45 Coffee

4 Differential Equations and Cosmological Correlators

Speaker: Austin Joyce (University of Chicago)

Austin-Joyce.pdf

12:00 Lunch

5 Gravitational Self Force and Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Mikhail Solon

Mikhail-Solon.pdf

6 The Roots of Inflation

Speaker: John Joseph Carrasco (Northwestern University)

JJ-Carrasco.pdf

15:00 Coffee

7 A New Twist on Spinning (A)dS Correlators

Speaker: Facundo Rost (University of Amsterdam)

Facundo-Rost.pdf

8 Classical Eikonal for Post-Minkowskian Expansion

Speaker: Sangmin Lee (Seoul National University)

Sangmin-Lee.pdf

Tuesday 10 December

9 Introduction to Postitive Geometry

Speaker: Jaroslav Trnka

Jaroslav-Trnka.pdf

10 Hidden Zeros and Amplitudes at Infinity

Speaker: Shruti Paranjape

Shruti-Paranjape.pdf

10:45 Coffee

11 Scattering Amplitudes and Non-Invertible Symmetry

Speaker: Shota Komatsu (CERN)

QCD_meets_gravity_Komatsu.pdf

12:00 Lunch

12 Colorless Surfaceology

Speaker: Giulio Salvatori

Giulio-Salvatori.pdf

13 String Archaeology

Speaker: Aninda Sinha (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Aninda-Sinha.pdf

15:00 Coffee

14 Energy Correlators in Multi-Collinear Limit and Beyond

Speaker: Kai Yan

QCD meets Gravity 2024.pdf

15 Scattering of Particles and Strings from Surface-Integrals

Speaker: Song He (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Song-He.pdf

Wednesday 11 December

16 Energy Correlators: From Colliders to Cosmos

Speaker: Ian Moult

Ian-Moult.pdf

17 BFKL/DGLAP Mixing and Light-Ray Operators in QCD

Speaker: Cyuan-Han Chang (University of Chicago)

Cyuan-Han-Chang.pdf

10:45 Coffee

18 Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theory and Nuclear Reactions

Conformal symmetry plays an important role in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. A nonrelativistic version of the conformal symmetry, also called Schrödinger symmetry, is approximately realized in various physical systems, including neutrons in nuclear physics and ultracold atoms. Nonrelativistic conformal field theories realize Schrödinger symmetry and possess many interesting properties. After reviewing some facts about nonrelativistic conformal field theory, we describe how it can be applied to the physics of nuclear reactions with several neutrons in the final state.

Speaker: Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago)

Dam-Son.pdf

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Free Afternoon

19 Colloquium: QCD Meets Gravity in Taipei

The annual QCD Meets Gravity conference is being held the week of December 9-13, 2024 at the National Taiwan University.  In this colloquium, I will explain some of the basic ideas being discussed at this conference, highlighting the theory of quantum scattering amplitudes. I will explain the application of these ideas to various topics including elementary-particle collider physics, the relation of gravity with the other forces, and basic questions on gravity and related theories.  I will also explain recent developments showing that the quantum nature of gravity is a very useful as a starting point for obtaining state-of-the-art precision predictions for interacting black holes and other compact astrophysical objects.

Speaker: Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US))

Zvi-Bern.pdf

Thursday 12 December

20 Fundamental Physics from Large-Scale Structure using Effective Field Theory

Speaker: Mikhail Ivanov (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

Misha-Ivanov.pdf

21 On-Shell Approach to Black Hole Mergers

Speaker: Katsuki Aoki (YITP, Kyoto University)

Katsuki-Aoki.pdf

10:45 Coffee

22 The Sound of Black Holes

Speaker: Vitor Cardoso

Vitor-Cardoso.pdf

12:00 Lunch

23 5PM-1SF: High-Precision Black Hole Scattering with Calabi-Yaus

Speaker: Benjamin Sauer (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin)

Benjamin-Sauer.pdf

24 Exact Tidal Anomalous Dimensions with Applications in Waveform Modeling

Speaker: Zihan Zhou (Princeton University)

Zihan-Zhou.pdf

15:00 Coffee

25 3PM Scattering Waveforms Including Spin Corrections

Speaker: Lara Bohnenblust

Lara-Bohnenblust.pdf

26 The Born Regime of Gravitational Scattering

Speaker: Giulia Isabella

Giulia-Isabella.pdf

Friday 13 December

27 Towards Two More Orders of Magnitudes of Precision with Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Radu Roiban

Radu-Roiban.pdf

28 Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe with Standard Sirens

Speaker: Hsin-Yu Chen

Hsin-Yu-Chen.pdf

10:45 Coffee

29 PM Theory Meets EOB Approach for Wave Emission and Scattering

Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno

Alessandra-Buonanno.pdf

12:00 Lunch

30 Serendipitous Syzygies of Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: David Kosower

David-Kosower.pdf

31 Semi-classical Gravitational Radiation

Speaker: Donal O'Connell

Donal-OConnell.pdf

32 Double Copy to All Loop Orders

Speaker: Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US))

Zvi-Bern.pdf