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Amplitudes

Event description

During the last few years the analytic study of scattering amplitudes has flourished due to a vivid interaction between high-energy physics and mathematics. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading experts working on novel methods for scattering amplitudes in perturbative gauge theory, gravity theories and string theory, reaching from formal developments to phenomenological applications. The meeting will combine several review presentations with shorter talks to discuss promising developments in this quickly evolving field. We hope that this will help forging new ideas and further boost the field.

The topics include:

• Mathematical structure of scattering amplitudes

• Integrals and integrands of perturbative quantum field theories

• Scattering amplitudes in (super)gravity and their ultraviolet behaviour

• Gauge/gravity dualities, AdS/CFT integrability, Wilson loops and strong- coupling results

• The long-distance singularity structure of gauge-theory amplitudes

• String amplitudes and their implications for field theory

• Developments related to the analytic S-matrix approach

This event is the continuation of a sequence of conferences started in 2009:

• 2009: IPPP Durham

• 2010: Queen Mary College, London

• 2011: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• 2012: DESY Hamburg

• 2013: Schloss Ringberg

• 2014: IPhT Saclay

• 2015: Zürich

• 2016: Nordita, Stockholm

The next conference in this series, following the one in Edinburgh, is:

• 2018: SLAC, Stanford, California

Dates: 10-14July 2017

Venue: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Edinburgh

Talk Schedule can be found here.

Conference Dinner: The conference dinner will be held at the Playfair Library Hall on the evening of Thursday 13th July. Please indicate your attendance on the registration form.

The Amplitudes meeting will be preceded by a summer school on scattering amplitudes aimed primarily at PhD students working in the area. The School will take place between 3-8 July 2017 at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Organisers

• Simon Badger (Durham)

• Claude Duhr (CERN / Université Catholique de Louvain)

• Einan Gardi (Edinburgh)

• Nigel Glover (Durham)

• Donal O’Connell (Edinburgh)

Advisory Committee

• Lance Dixon (SLAC)

• Lorenzo Magnea (Torino)

• Stefan Weinzierl (Mainz)

• Ruth Britto (Dublin / Saclay)

• Gregory Korchemsky (Saclay)

Funding is provided by:

The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics (University of Edinburgh)

The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (Durham University)

Timetable

See the full timetable on Indico

10 Jul / 08:30—08:40
Welcome (0h10′)
10 Jul / 08:45—09:30
Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Positive Geometry: From Scattering Amplitudes to the Wavefunction of the Universe (0h45′)
Speaker(s):
10 Jul / 09:35—10:05
Positive Geometries and Canonical Forms: Scattering Amplitudes and the Associahedron (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Bai, Yuntao (Princeton, NJ)
10 Jul / 11:00—11:30
The connected prescription for form factors in twistor space (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Brandhuber, Andreas
10 Jul / 11:35—12:05
Landau Singularities from the Amplituhedron (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Volovich, Anastasia
10 Jul / 13:40—14:10
Symmetries of the Amplituhedron (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Ferro, Livia
10 Jul / 14:15—14:45
The duality of Wilson loop form factors (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Chicherin, Dmitry
10 Jul / 15:40—16:10
The Steinmann Cluster Bootstrap for N=4 SYM Amplitudes (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Papathanasiou, Georgios
10 Jul / 16:15—16:45
Soft Theorems (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Andrew STROMINGER
10 Jul / 16:45—18:25
Reception and Poster Session (1h40′)
11 Jul / 08:45—09:30
Massive scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills (0h45′)
Speaker(s):
11 Jul / 09:35—10:05
Finite fields and multivariate reconstruction techniques for scattering amplitudes (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
11 Jul / 11:00—11:30
Reducing differential systems for multiloop integrals (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Lee, Roman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
11 Jul / 11:35—12:05
Feynman integrals in QCD (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Von Manteuffel, Andreas (Michigan State University)
11 Jul / 13:40—14:10
Two-parton scattering in the high-energy limit (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
11 Jul / 14:15—14:45
Advancements and challenges in multiloop scattering amplitudes for the LHC (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
11 Jul / 15:40—16:10
First Two-Loop Amplitudes with the Numerical Unitarity Method (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Page, Ben (Freiburg University)
11 Jul / 16:15—16:45
QCD at high orders for precision phenomenology at the LHC (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Mistlberger, Bernhard (CERN)
11 Jul / 16:50—17:20
Bootstrapping the S-matrix (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Paulos, Miguel (CERN)
12 Jul / 08:45—09:30
Introduction to motivic amplitudes and cosmic Galois group (0h45′)
Speaker(s):
  • Brown, Francis (Oxford University)
12 Jul / 09:35—10:05
Geometry and Hopf algebra of one-loop integrals and their cuts (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
12 Jul / 11:00—11:30
Feynman Integrals as Periods (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
12 Jul / 11:35—12:05
An elliptic generalisation of polylogarithms for the sunrise and kite integrals (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Adams, Luise (Mainz University)
12 Jul / 13:40—14:10
Feynman integrals, beyond polylogs, up to 20 loops (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
13 Jul / 08:45—09:30
Gravity and supergravity perturbation theory: a bird's eye view (0h45′)
Speaker(s):
  • Roiban, Radu (Pennstate University)
13 Jul / 09:35—10:05
Sudakov form factor and colour-kinematics duality at five loops (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Yang, Gang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
13 Jul / 11:00—11:30
Loop-level BCJ and KLT relations (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Schlotterer, Oliver (The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam)
13 Jul / 11:35—12:05
Radiation and the classical double copy for colour charges (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Goldberger, Walter (Yale University)
13 Jul / 13:40—14:10
Soft Photon and Graviton Theorems in Effective Field Theory (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Naculich, Stephen (Bowdoin college)
13 Jul / 14:15—14:45
From gravity on-shell diagrams to properties of scattering amplitudes (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Herrmann, Enrico (Caltech)
13 Jul / 15:40—16:10
Scattering in Conformal Gravity (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Henrik JOHANSSON (University of Uppsala)
13 Jul / 16:15—16:45
From 4d Ambitwistor Strings to On Shell Diagrams and Back (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Arthur LIPSTEIN (Durham University)
13 Jul / 16:50—17:40
Poster Session (0h50′)
14 Jul / 08:45—09:30
The scattering equations and ambitwistor strings (0h45′)
Speaker(s):
  • Mason, Lionel (Oxford University)
14 Jul / 09:35—10:05
Higher-loop amplitude monodromy relations in string and gauge theory (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
14 Jul / 11:00—11:30
The Correlahedron (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Eden, Burkhard (Humboldt University, Berlin)
14 Jul / 11:35—12:05
The four-loop form factor in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Boels, Rutger (Desy, Hamburg)
14 Jul / 13:40—14:10
Scattering Equations and Feynman Loop Integrands (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Gomez, Humberto (Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia)
14 Jul / 14:15—14:45
Amplitudes from scattering equations at tree and loop order (0h30′)
Speaker(s):
  • Bjerrum-Bohr, Emil (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
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Amplitudes

Venues

LT1, Appleton Tower (Find us on campus maps)
11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh
EH8 9LE
UK

Organisers

Key speakers

  • Nima ARKANI-HAMED (IAS,Princeton, NJ)
  • Bai, Yuntao (Princeton, NJ)
  • Brandhuber, Andreas
  • Volovich, Anastasia
  • Ferro, Livia
  • Chicherin, Dmitry
  • Papathanasiou, Georgios
  • Andrew STROMINGER
  • Johannes HENN (Mainz)
  • Tiziano PERARO (University of Edinburgh)
  • Lee, Roman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
  • Von Manteuffel, Andreas (Michigan State University)
  • Leonardo VERNAZZA (University of Edinburgh)
  • Lorenzo TANCREDI (Karlsruhe University)
  • Page, Ben (Freiburg University)
  • Mistlberger, Bernhard (CERN)
  • Paulos, Miguel (CERN)
  • Brown, Francis (Oxford University)
  • Samuel ABREU (Freiburg University)
  • Pierre VANHOVE
  • Adams, Luise (Mainz University)
  • David BROADHURST (Open University, UK)
  • Roiban, Radu (Pennstate University)
  • Yang, Gang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
  • Schlotterer, Oliver (The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam)
  • Goldberger, Walter (Yale University)
  • Naculich, Stephen (Bowdoin college)
  • Herrmann, Enrico (Caltech)
  • Henrik JOHANSSON (University of Uppsala)
  • Arthur LIPSTEIN (Durham University)
  • Mason, Lionel (Oxford University)
  • Piotr TOURKINE (Cambridge University)
  • Eden, Burkhard (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  • Boels, Rutger (Desy, Hamburg)
  • Gomez, Humberto (Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia)
  • Bjerrum-Bohr, Emil (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)

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