Amplitudes 2018

from Monday 18 June 2018 (08:55) to Friday 22 June 2018 (18:00)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory or https://stanford.zoom.us/j/490970988

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018
20 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018
22 Jun 2018
AM
09:00 Welcome - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)  
09:15
Plenary - Poul Henrik Damgaard (University of Copenhagen) (until 10:35)
09:15 The New Era of Precision Gravitational-Wave (astro)Physics - Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Inst., Potsdam)  
10:00 Diagrammatic approach to two-body dynamics and post-Newtonian corrections - Pierpaolo Mastrolia (University of Padua)  
10:35 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15
Plenary - Poul Henrik Damgaard (University of Copenhagen) (until 12:35)
11:15 Scattering Amplitudes and LIGO - Clifford Cheung (Caltech)  
12:00 Amplitudes for Fast Classical Scattering - Donal O'Connell (University of Edinburgh)  
09:15
Plenary - Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley) (until 10:35)
09:15 Amplituhedron meets Jeffrey-Kirwan Residue - Tomasz Lukowski (Oxford University)  
10:00 The space of EFT and CFT: life behind the facets of cyclic polytopes - Yu-tin Huang (National Taiwan University)  
10:35 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15
Plenary - Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley) (until 12:35)
11:15 Scattering Amplitudes From Combinatorial Geometry At Infinity - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)  
12:00 Positive Geometries, Canonical Forms and Scattering Amplitudes - Song He (Beijing Institute of Theoretical Physics)  
08:45 Poster Setup  
09:15
Plenary - Henrik Johansson (Uppsala University & Nordita) (until 10:35)
09:15 Exact scattering amplitudes in gamma-deformed N=4 SYM - Gregory Korchemsky (Saclay)  
10:00 Intersections - Sebastian Mizera (Perimeter Institute)  
10:35 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
11:15
Plenary - Henrik Johansson (Uppsala University & Nordita) (until 12:35)
11:15 Soft theorem and its classical limit - Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)  
12:00 Double copy and color-kinematics on curved backgrounds - Tim Adamo (Imperial College)  
09:15
Plenary - David Kosower (CEA-Saclay) (until 10:35)
09:15 Light-ray operators in conformal field theory - David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech)  
10:00 Analytic bootstrap for large N theories - Agnese Bissi (University of Uppsala)  
10:35 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15
Plenary - David Kosower (CEA-Saclay) (until 12:35)
11:15 Continuum limit of fishnet graphs and AdS sigma model - Benjamin Basso (Ecole Normale Superieure)  
12:00 ABJM flux-tube and scattering amplitudes - Andrei Belitsky (Arizona State University)  
09:15
Plenary - Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary University of London) (until 10:35)
09:15 Elliptic polylogarithms for Feynman integrals - Claude Duhr (CERN & Universite Catholique de Louvain)  
10:00 A tale of two Regge limits - Vittorio Del Duca (ETH Zurich)  
10:35 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15
Plenary - Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary University of London) (until 12:35)
11:15 Maximally supersymmetric black holes don’t precess - Simon Caron-Huot (McGill University)  
12:00 Simplicity in AdS Perturbative Dynamics - Ellis Yuan (IAS)  
PM
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
14:50
Plenary - Lorenzo Magnea (Universita di Torino & INFN) (until 16:10)
14:50 All-loop singularities of massless planar amplitudes - Mark Spradlin (Brown University)  
15:35 The Hepp bound for Feynman periods - Erik Panzer (Oxford University)  
16:10 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50
Plenary - Lorenzo Magnea (Universita di Torino & INFN) (until 18:00)
16:50 Cosmic Galois Theory in Planar N=4 SYM - Andrew McLeod (Niels Bohr Institute)  
17:25 Form factors in N=4 SYM and beyond - Brenda Penante (CERN)  
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
14:50
Plenary - Jara Trnka (UC Davis) (until 16:10)
14:50 From amplitudes to precision collider physics - Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich)  
15:35 Integrands and amplitudes for two-loop five-point scattering in QCD - Simon Badger (University of Durham)  
16:10 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50
Plenary - Jara Trnka (UC Davis) (until 18:00)
16:50 Computing two-loop amplitudes with numerical unitarity - Fernando Febres Cordero (University of Freiburg)  
17:25 Integration-by-parts reductions from algebraic geometry - Kasper Larsen (University of Southampton)  
19:30 Public Lecture: The End of Spacetime - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)  
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
14:50
Plenary - Livia Ferro (LMU Munich) (until 16:10)
14:50 Recent developments in string amplitudes - Oliver Schlotterer (MPI Potsdam)  
15:35 Two-loop amplitudes from the nodal Riemann sphere - Yvonne Geyer (IAS)  
16:10 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
16:50
Plenary - Livia Ferro (LMU Munich) (until 18:00)
16:50 Maximal Supergravity at 5 loops via Generalized Double-Copy - John Joseph Carrasco (CEA Saclay)  
17:25 Calculating supergravity divergences at high loop orders - Mao Zeng (UCLA)  
18:00 Poster Session  
19:00 Conference Dinner  
12:35 Amplitudes 2019 - Ruth Britto (University of Amsterdam)  
12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
14:50 Free Afternoon  
12:35 --- Lunch Break ---
14:50
Plenary - Zvi Bern (UCLA) (until 16:45)
14:50 Cuts and coaction of Feynman integrals - Ruth Britto (Trinity College, Dublin)  
15:35 Linearizing Loop Integration - Jacob Bourjaily (Niels Bohr Institute)  
16:10 Quantum Gravity from Conformal Field Theory - James Drummond (University of Southampton)