Talks+&+Discussions

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Apr 4 || 2:00pm || SSR || **Coordinators** || //Organizational Meeting// || All welcome || //a W boson in proton-antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV// || Streaming the Fermilab Wine and Cheese talk || to 6 pm || MSR || **Nima Arkani-Hamed** || //The planar integrand of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory.// ||  || //(not managed by our program)// || [|http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~wclhc] || AM || Aud || **Pedro Vieira** || //The conformal bootstrap for Null Polygon Wilson loops. OPE symbology// ||  || May 12 || 3:20 PM || Aud || **Claude Duhr** || //From symbols to functions: an algorithmic approach// ||  || //Multi-Leg Amplitudes at Work// || Focus week on QCD related topics || May 19 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Harald Ita/** //Basis for Multiloop Integrals// ||  || May 19 || 2 PM || MSR || **Informal** //arXiv:1105.2565// || A very informal journal club level discussion || May 26 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Emery Sokatchev** || //Triality: amplitudes/correlation functions/Wilson loops in N=4 SYM// ||  || May 31 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Radu Roiban** || //On the semiclassical approximation of correlation function of closed string vertex operators in AdS_5 x S_5// ||  || //Counterterms in supergravity// ||  || //Continuation: Counterterms in supergravity// ||  || Jun 7 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Jan Plefka** || //All tree-level amplitudes in massless QCD from N=4 sYM// ||  || Jun 14 || 2 PM || MSR || **Nima Arkani-Hamed** || TBA || This week and next week will be a tutorial period with talks geared mainly towards people outside our program. || Jun 16 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Johannes Henn** || //A new symmetry of maximal super-Yang-Mills theory// ||  || Jun 20 || 10 AM || Aud || **Lev Lipatov** || //Integrable spin chains and scattering amplitudes.// || qcdscat11 technical talk || Jun 22 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Zvi Bern** || //Tutorial: Some surprising and simple aspects of gravity scattering amplitudes// || Tutorial level, for non-experts ||  ***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge** ⬆TOP
 * ~ **Week 1** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ **__Title__** ||~ **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Mon,
 * Tue, Apr 5 || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Zvi Bern** || //Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity// || Cookies at 3:30pm ||
 * Wed, Apr 6 || 10:30am || Aud || **Thomas Gehrmann** || //Status of QCD Calculations// ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 6 || 2:00pm || MSR || **Fermilab (stream)** || //Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with//
 * Thu, Apr 7 || 10:30am || Aud || **Marcus Spradlin** || //A Practical Guide to the Art of N=4 Amplitudeology// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ **__Title__** ||~ **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Mon, Apr 11 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Mark Voit** || //The Astrophysics of Galaxy Clusters// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Apr 12 || 10:15am || Aud ||  || //Weekly organizational meeting// ||   ||
 * Tue, Apr 12 || 10:30am || Aud || **Lionel Mason /**
 * David Skinner** || //An Introduction to Field Theory in Twistor Space// ||  ||
 * Tue, Apr 12 || 2:30pm || SSR || **Andrew Hodges** || //Tutorial on momentum twistors// ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 13 || 2:30pm || SSR || **Zvi Bern** || //Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory// || Time was moved because whale watching was cancelled. ||
 * Thu, Apr 14 || 10:30am || Aud || **Sven-Olaf Moch /**
 * Gabriele Travaglini** || //A dual view on the infrared singularities: Form factors, Wilson loops and all that// ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 14 || 1:30 pm
 * Fri, Apr 15 || 9 AM - 5PM || ESB 1001 || **West Coast LHC** || //Meeting of West Coast LHC Theory Network//
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ **__Title__** ||~ **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Tue, Apr 19 || 12:30 PM || Broida 3302 || **Tom Banks** || //Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity// || High Energy Theory Seminar (not managed by our program) ||
 * Wed, Apr 20 || 2:00 PM || MSR || **Emil Bjerrum-Bohr /**
 * Oliver Schlotterer** || //What (weak coupling) strings teach us about amplitudes// ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 21 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **David Skinner /**
 * Simon Caron-Huot** || //Multiloop Wilson loops, etc// ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 21 || 2:00 PM || SSR || **Rajesh Gopakumar** || //A Large N Dual to 2d CFTs// || High Energy Theory Seminar (not managed by our program) ||
 * Thu, Apr 21 || 3:30 PM || MSR || **Andrew Hodges** || //Tutorial on projective spaces// ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 22 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **John Joseph Carrasco /**
 * Henrik Johansson** || //A tutorial on multiloop amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills and N=8 supergravity// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 4** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ **__Title__** ||~ **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Tue, Apr 26 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Johannes Henn /**
 * Yu-tin Huang** || //Dual conformal symmetry// ||  ||
 * Tue, Apr 26 || 1:30 PM || SSR || **Niklas Beisert** || //Tutorial on Yangians and amplitudes// ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 27 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Kelly Stelle** || //Finiteness patterns and nonrenormalization theorems in extended supergravities// ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 27 || 3:30 PM || SSR || **Steven Giddings** || //High-energy (super)gravitational scattering and the unitarity crisis// ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 28 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Amit Sever** || //Tutorial on OPEs for scattering amplitudes// ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 29 || 10:30 AM || SSR || **Anastasia Volovich** || //Symblifying amplitudes// ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 29 || 11:15 AM || SSR || **Simon Caron-Huot** || //Towards all n two loop scattering amplitudes// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 5** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ **__Title__** ||~ **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Mon, May 2 || 3:30 PM || Aud || **Nima Arkani-Hamed** || //Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes// || Director's Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Mon, May 2 || 1:00 PM || MSR || **Juan Maldacena** || //Amplitudes in the Sky// || Strings week ||
 * Tue, May 3 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Juan Maldacena** || //Amplitudes at Strong Coupling// ||  ||
 * Tue, May 3 || 2:00 PM || MSR || **Nathan Berkovits** || //Overview of multiloop scattering in string theory// ||  ||
 * Wed, May 4 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Joe Polchinski** || //Emergent Spacetime from AdS/CFT // ||  ||
 * Thu, May 5 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Nathan Berkovits** || //Tutorial on pure spinors// ||  ||
 * Thu, May 5 || 2:00 PM || MSR || **Pedro Vieira** || //Integrability, correlation functions and classical magnets// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 6** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ **__Title__** ||~ **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Mon, May 9 || 12:15 PM || Aud || **Gregory Falkovich** || //Broken and Emerging Symmetries of a Turbulent State// || Director's Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, May 10 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Gregory Korchemsky** || //Dualities for scattering amplitudes: from N=4 sYM to QCD// ||  ||
 * Tue, May 10 || 2:00 PM || FR || **Marcus Spradlin** || //Informal Discussion on Symbiology// ||  ||
 * Wed May 11 || 10:30
 * Thu, May 12 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Johannes Henn** || //Differential equations for amplitudes/// ||  ||
 * Thu,
 * ~ **Week 7** ||~ __**Time**__ ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ __**Speaker**__ ||~ __**Title**__ ||~ __**Comments, links,...**__ ||
 * Tue, May 17 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Jeppe Andersen** || //New Challenges to Theory in Describing LHC Collisions://
 * Thu,
 * David Kosower** || //Progress and techniques in NLO QCD///
 * Thu,
 * discussion** || //Discussion on recent paper from Monteiro and O'Connell//
 * ~ **Week 8** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ __**Title**__ ||~ **__Comments, links,...__** ||
 * Tue, May 24 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Stefan Hoeche** || //An Introduction to Parton Showers// ||  ||
 * Tue, May 24 || 4:00 PM || Broida 1640 || **Henriette Elvang** || //The Excitement of Scattering Amplitudes// || Physics Department Colloquium ||
 * Wed, May 25 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **M. Kiermaier/**
 * Bo Feng** || //The Coulomb-branch S-matrix from massless amplitudes// / //Some aspects of BCFW recursion relations// ||  ||
 * Thu,
 * ~ **Week 9** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ **__Title__** ||~ **__Comments, links,...__** ||
 * Tue,
 * Wed, Jun 1 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Steven Giddings/ Henriette Elvang** || //(Perfection)^2 =? : scattering amplitudes meet black holes//
 * Thu, Jun 2 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Matthias Neubert/**
 * Henriette Elvang** || //Anomalous factorization in QCD//
 * ~ **Week 10** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ __**Title**__ ||~ **__Comments, links,...__** ||
 * Tue,
 * Wed, Jun 8 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Cristian Vergu** || //Classical Polylogarithms for Amplitudes and Wilson Loops// ||  ||
 * Thu, Jun 9 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Zoltan Kunszt** || //An overview of recent developments in NLO QCD// ||  ||
 * Thu, Jun 9 || 2 PM || MSR || **Lev Lipatov** || //Effective action for the Regge processes in gravity// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 11** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ __**Title**__ ||~ **__Comments, links,...__** ||
 * Tue,
 * Wed, Jun 15 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Ruth Britto** || //An introduction to computing scattering amplitudes// ||  ||
 * Wed, Jun 15 || 2:00 PM || MSR || **Ruth Britto** || //Tutorial on BCFW recursion// ||  ||
 * Thu,
 * Thu, Jun 16 || 2 PM || MSR || **Nima Arkani-Hamed** || TBA ||  ||
 * Fri, Jun 17 || 10:00 AM || Aud || **David Kosower** || //An introduction to loop level scattering amplitudes// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 12** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ __**Title**__ ||~ **__Comments, links,...__** ||
 * Mon,
 * Mon, Jun 20 || 12:15 PM || Aud || **Michael Peskin** || //LHC: First Views of the TEV Scale// || Director's Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Jun 21 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **David Kosower** || //An introduction to loop level scattering amplitudes// || Tutorial level, for non-experts ||
 * Wed,
 * Wed, Jun 22 || 2 PM || MSR || **Matt Schwartz** || //Sudakov confinement and conformal gauge// || qcdscat11 technical talk ||
 * Thu, Jun 23 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Marcus Spradlin** || //Scattering Amplitudes From Weak to Strong Coupling// || Tutorial level, for non-experts ||
 * Thu, Jun 23 || 2 PM || Aud || **Nima Arkani-Hamed** || //TBA// || Tutorial level, for non-experts ||
 * ~ **Week 13** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ __**Title**__ ||~ **__Comments, links,...__** ||
 * Tue, Jun 28 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Costas Papadopoulos** || //How to perform one loop calculations efficiently// ||  ||
 * Wed, Jun 29 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Roberto Pittau** || //MADloop// ||  ||
 * Thu, Jun 30 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Einan Gardi** || //Soft gluon exponentiation of multi-parton amplitudes// ||  ||
 * Fri, Jul 1 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Thomas Becher** || //Infrared structure of gauge theory amplitudes// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 14** ||~ **__Time__** ||~ **__Place*__** ||~ **__Speaker__** ||~ __**Title**__ ||~ **__Comments, links,...__** ||
 * Wed, Jul 6 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Laura Reina** || //QCD predictions for W+b jet production at hadron colliders// ||  ||
 * Thu, Jul 7 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Bryan Webber** || //Color coherence and parton showers// ||  ||
 * Fri, Jul 8 || 10:30 AM || Aud || **Martin Beneke** || //Soft and Coulomb resummation// ||  ||