“Trees, loops and precision QCD”: A Symposium Inspired by the 1984 J.J. Sakurai Prize, December 6th, 2013

On Friday December 6th, YITP in conjunction with the SCGP will host, “Trees, loops and precision QCD”: A symposium inspired by the 1984 J.J. Sakurai Prize 2:00pm – 5:30pm, SCGP Room 103 Speakers: Lance Dixon: “Scattering amplitudes: the story of loops and legs” Stefan Hoeche: “From amplitudes to experiments” Nima Arkani-Hamed: “From Old Physics to … Read more

Mock Modular Forms Program Seminar: Martin Raum, ETH Zurich

Title: Siegel Product Expansion in M24 Moonshine Speaker: Martin Raum, ETH Zurich Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: We briefly revisit product expansions that were considered by Cheng, and Cheng and Duncan in the context of $M_{24}$-moonshine. To … Read more

SCGP Weekly Talk: Nima Arkani- Hamed, IAS

Title: The Amplituhedron Speaker: Nima Arkani- Hamed, IAS Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: Perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theories have remarkable properties and hidden infinite dimensional symmetries that are completely obscured in the conventional formulation of field … Read more

Scattering Amplitudes Program Seminar: Donal O’Connell

Title: Unexpected Relations Between Yang-Mills and Gravity Amplitudes Speaker: Donal O’Connell Date: Thursday, September 13, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:30 pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]  

Mock Modular Program Seminar: John Duncan

Title: Mock Modular Program Seminar Speaker: John Duncan, Case Western Reserve University Date: Thursday, September 12, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:30 pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]  

SCGP Weekly Talk: Matthias Gaberdiel

Title: Mathieu Moonshine Speaker: Matthias Gaberdiel Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: The proposal of Eguchi, Ooguri and Tachikawa for an M24 symmetry underlying the elliptic genus of K3 is reviewed. I shall then explain … Read more