In recent years, great progress has been made on computing rates for production processes of direct relevance to experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as well as on modeling waveforms for gravitational-wave signals from compact binary systems. The understanding and ability to compute scattering amplitudes and classical observables has been important for linking those seemingly unrelated topics. As a consequence, we are witnessing remarkable advances in both fields.
The aim of the School is to bring together young theorists working on LHC physics with those working on gravitational-wave detection and modeling, and to provide them the analytic tools to compute amplitudes and on-shell quantities. The school is addressed to Ph.D. students and early post-docs in High-Energy and Gravitational Theoretical Physics. 43 hours of lectures and 8 hours of tutorials will be delivered over the 13 days of the School.
Speakers:
- Fabrizio Caola (Oxford U.): Precision Computation for Collider Physics
- Michele Vallisneri (ETH Zürich): Gravitational Waves & Data Analysis
- Lorenzo Tancredi (Tech. U. Munich): Special Functions for Amplitudes
- Ekta Chaubey (Bonn U.): Multiloop Methods.
- Francesco Tramontano (Naples U. & INFN): Numerical Methods for Multiloop
- Andrew McLeod (Edinburgh U.): Analytic Structure of Amplitudes
- Ira Rothstein (Carnegie Mellon U.): EFT's for Colliders & Gravity
- Yu-tin Huang (Natl. Taiwan U.): Spinor-Helicity Methods
- Martin Beneke (Tech. U. Munich): IR Physics & Soft Theorems for QCD & Gravity
- Radu Roiban (Penn State U.): Amplitudes for Gravitational Waves
- Jan Plefka (Humboldt U.): Effective Field Theories & World-Line Formalism
- Riccardo Gonzo (Queen Mary U.): On-shell Observables
- Julio Parra-Martinez (IHES): Self-force Theory
- Sara Maggio (Bonn U.): 1st week tutorials.
- Stefano De Angelis (IPhT) - 2nd week tutorials.
Organising committee:
- Maria Cristina D'Amato (INFN LNF)
- Vittorio Del Duca (INFN LNF)
- Claude Duhr (U. Bonn)
- Harald Ita (U. Zürich & PSI)
- David A. Kosower (IPhT, CEA, Saclay)
- Daniela Napoleoni (INFN LNF)
- Lorenzo Tancredi (Tech. U. Munich)
- Francesco Tramontano (Naples U. & INFN NA)
The school is jointly funded by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the University of Naples, the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union, and the Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology of the University of Zurich.
