Amplitudes 2018

18 Jun 2018, 08:55 → 22 Jun 2018, 18:00 US/Pacific

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory or https://stanford.zoom.us/j/490970988

Monday 18 June

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)

AmplitudesPracticalities.pdf

Poster_Printing.pdf

09:15 → 10:35 Plenary

Convener: Poul Henrik Damgaard (University of Copenhagen)

09:15 The New Era of Precision Gravitational-Wave (astro)Physics

Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Inst., Potsdam)

Amplitudes-2018-AB.pdf

10:00 Diagrammatic approach to two-body dynamics and post-Newtonian corrections

Speaker: Pierpaolo Mastrolia (University of Padua)

02_mastrolia_amplitudes18.pdf

10:35 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:35 Plenary

Convener: Poul Henrik Damgaard (University of Copenhagen)

11:15 Scattering Amplitudes and LIGO

Speaker: Clifford Cheung (Caltech)

Amplitudes and LIGO.pdf

Recording

12:00 Amplitudes for Fast Classical Scattering

Speaker: Donal O'Connell (University of Edinburgh)

Recording

SlacTalk.pdf

12:35 → 14:50 Lunch Break

14:50 → 16:10 Plenary

Convener: Lorenzo Magnea (Universita di Torino & INFN)

14:50 All-loop singularities of massless planar amplitudes

Speaker: Mark Spradlin (Brown University)

Recording

spradlin-abridged.pdf

15:35 The Hepp bound for Feynman periods

Speaker: Erik Panzer (Oxford University)

Recording

talk.pdf

16:10 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 18:00 Plenary

Convener: Lorenzo Magnea (Universita di Torino & INFN)

16:50 Cosmic Galois Theory in Planar N=4 SYM

Speaker: Andrew McLeod (Niels Bohr Institute)

Cosmic Galois Theory in Planar N=4 SYM.pdf

Recording

17:25 Form factors in N=4 SYM and beyond

Speaker: Brenda Penante (CERN)

Amplitudes2018-BP.pdf

Recording

Tuesday 19 June

09:15 → 10:35 Plenary

Convener: Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley)

09:15 Amplituhedron meets Jeffrey-Kirwan Residue

Speaker: Tomasz Lukowski (Oxford University)

Amplitudes 2018 - Tomasz Lukowski.pdf

Recording

10:00 The space of EFT and CFT: life behind the facets of cyclic polytopes

Speaker: Yu-tin Huang (National Taiwan University)

Amplitudes.pdf

Recording

10:35 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:35 Plenary

Convener: Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley)

11:15 Scattering Amplitudes From Combinatorial Geometry At Infinity

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

amps2018.pdf

Recording

12:00 Positive Geometries, Canonical Forms and Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Song He (Beijing Institute of Theoretical Physics)

04_talk_amp.pdf

Recording

12:35 → 14:50 Lunch Break

14:50 → 16:10 Plenary

Convener: Jara Trnka (UC Davis)

14:50 From amplitudes to precision collider physics

Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich)

Gehrmann_amp18.pdf

Recording

15:35 Integrands and amplitudes for two-loop five-point scattering in QCD

Speaker: Simon Badger (University of Durham)

Recording

SB_Amplitudes2018.pdf

16:10 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 18:00 Plenary

Convener: Jara Trnka (UC Davis)

16:50 Computing two-loop amplitudes with numerical unitarity

Speaker: Fernando Febres Cordero (University of Freiburg)

Amps_June_2018_FFC.pdf

Recording

17:25 Integration-by-parts reductions from algebraic geometry

Speaker: Kasper Larsen (University of Southampton)

Recording

Talk_Amplitudes_[19-6-2018].pdf

19:30 → 20:30 Public Lecture: The End of Spacetime

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

Recording

Wednesday 20 June

08:45 → 09:15 Poster Setup

09:15 → 10:35 Plenary

Convener: Henrik Johansson (Uppsala University & Nordita)

09:15 Exact scattering amplitudes in gamma-deformed N=4 SYM

Speaker: Gregory Korchemsky (Saclay)

01_Korchemsky_amplitudes.pdf

Recording

10:00 Intersections

Speaker: Sebastian Mizera (Perimeter Institute)

Intersections.pdf

Recording

10:35 → 11:15 Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:15 → 12:35 Plenary

Convener: Henrik Johansson (Uppsala University & Nordita)

11:15 Soft theorem and its classical limit

Speaker: Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

Recording

slac.pdf

12:00 Double copy and color-kinematics on curved backgrounds

Speaker: Tim Adamo (Imperial College)

Amplitudes18.pdf

Recording

12:35 → 14:50 Lunch Break

14:50 → 16:10 Plenary

Convener: Livia Ferro (LMU Munich)

14:50 Recent developments in string amplitudes

Speaker: Oliver Schlotterer (MPI Potsdam)

OS_Amplitudes.pdf

Recording

15:35 Two-loop amplitudes from the nodal Riemann sphere

Speaker: Yvonne Geyer (IAS)

2loops.pdf

Recording

16:10 → 16:50 Coffee Break and Poster Session

16:50 → 18:00 Plenary

Convener: Livia Ferro (LMU Munich)

16:50 Maximal Supergravity at 5 loops via Generalized Double-Copy

Speaker: John Joseph Carrasco (CEA Saclay)

carrasco_amplitudes2018.key

carrasco_amplitudes2018.pdf

Recording

17:25 Calculating supergravity divergences at high loop orders

Speaker: Mao Zeng (UCLA)

Calculating supergravity divergences at high loop orders.pdf

Calculating supergravity divergences at high loop orders.pptx

Recording

18:00 → 19:00 Poster Session

19:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

Thursday 21 June

09:15 → 10:35 Plenary

Convener: David Kosower (CEA-Saclay)

09:15 Light-ray operators in conformal field theory

Speaker: David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech)

LightRayOperators.pdf

Recording

10:00 Analytic bootstrap for large N theories

Speaker: Agnese Bissi (University of Uppsala)

02_Amplitudes_2018_bissi.pdf

Recording

10:35 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:35 Plenary

Convener: David Kosower (CEA-Saclay)

11:15 Continuum limit of fishnet graphs and AdS sigma model

Speaker: Benjamin Basso (Ecole Normale Superieure)

03_Basso-SLAC2018.pdf

Recording

12:00 ABJM flux-tube and scattering amplitudes

Speaker: Andrei Belitsky (Arizona State University)

Recording

SLAC-Amplitudes2018.pdf

12:35 → 12:40 Amplitudes 2019

Speaker: Ruth Britto (University of Amsterdam)

amplitudes2019preview.pdf

12:40 → 14:50 Lunch Break

14:50 → 18:00 Free Afternoon

Friday 22 June

09:15 → 10:35 Plenary

Convener: Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary University of London)

09:15 Elliptic polylogarithms for Feynman integrals

Speaker: Claude Duhr (CERN & Universite Catholique de Louvain)

Amplitudes2018_Duhr.pdf

Recording

10:00 A tale of two Regge limits

Speaker: Vittorio Del Duca (ETH Zurich)

amplitudes2018.pdf

Recording

10:35 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:35 Plenary

Convener: Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary University of London)

11:15 Maximally supersymmetric black holes don’t precess

Speaker: Simon Caron-Huot (McGill University)

caron-huot_Amplitudes.pdf

Recording

12:00 Simplicity in AdS Perturbative Dynamics

Speaker: Ellis Yuan (IAS)

201806_SLAC.pdf

Recording

12:35 → 14:50 Lunch Break

14:50 → 16:45 Plenary

Convener: Zvi Bern (UCLA)

14:50 Cuts and coaction of Feynman integrals

Speaker: Ruth Britto (Trinity College, Dublin)

BrittoAmplitudes18.pdf

Recording

15:35 Linearizing Loop Integration

Speaker: Jacob Bourjaily (Niels Bohr Institute)

06_bourjaily_amplitudes_18.pdf

Recording

16:10 Quantum Gravity from Conformal Field Theory

Speaker: James Drummond (University of Southampton)

Amplitudes_2018.pdf

Recording