The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce the following talks during the week of Monday, May 18th - Saturday, May 23rd
Workshop: Welcome by Organizers
Tuesday, May 19th at 9:20am
Speaker: Luis Alvarez Gaume, Rouven Essig, and Patrick Meade
Title: Welcome
Workshop: Factorization and pdfs - Moderated by John Collins
Tuesday, May 19th at 9:30am in SCGP 102
Speaker: Dave Soper (Glauber singularities and factorization), Pavel Nadolsky (Precision tests of QCD factorization), Eric Laenen (Factorization and resummation), Aniruddha Venkata (Drell Levy Yan relationship and factorization)
Title: Factorization and pdfs - Moderated by John Collins
Abstract: Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, followed by a 50 minute discussion
Workshop: Higher orders - Moderated by Fred Olness
Tuesday, May 19th at 11:30am in SCGP 102/ZOOM
Speaker: Johannes Bluemlein ([Remote] The structure of the proton: light, heavy, unpolarized, polarized),
Babis Anastasiou (Finite integrands for hard scattering amplitudes in QCD), Lorenzo Magnea (A long-distance story), Vittorio Del Duca (Soft and/or Collinear), Yao Ma (Regions in Asymptotic Expansions of Amplitudes)
Title: Higher orders - Moderated by Fred Olness
Abstract: Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, followed by a 50 minute discussion
Workshop: Energy Flow - Moderated by Lorenzo Magnea
Tuesday, May 19th at 2:00pm in SCGP 102
Speaker: Gilad Perez (From the hierarcy problem to jet substructure & E-correlators), Lance Dixon (Homage to Jets and Sterman), Ian Moult (50 Years of George's Energy Flow Operator,) Claudio Coriano (Sum Rules of Gravitational Form Factors in QCD, the trace Anomaly and CFT)
Title: Energy Flow - Moderated by Lorenzo Magnea
Abstract: Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, followed by a 40 minute discussion
Workshop: Jets and Shapes - Moderated by Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans
Tuesday, May 19th at 4:00pm in SCGP 102
Speaker: Joey Huston (Jets at Hadron-Hadron Colliders), Christopher Lee (Boosting the physics of event shapes in QCD and SCET), Ozan Erdogan (Weighted cross sections and IR safety in coordinate space), Kyle Lee (Anomalous Applications of George's Operator).
Title: Jets and Shapes - Moderated by Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans
Abstract: Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, followed by a 50 minute discussion
Workshop: Resummation - Moderated by Gregory Korchemsky
Wednesday, May 20th at 9:30am in SCGP 102
Speaker: Nikolaos Kidonakis (Soft anomalous dimensions in QCD), Andrei Belitsky (Walking Sudakov), Werner Vogelsang (Single-particle cross sections in QCD), Stan Srednyak (Local renormalization group and the structure of the proton), Anna Kulesza (Resummation for massive final states).
Title: Resummation - Moderated by Gregory Korchemsky
Abstract: Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, followed by a 40 minute discussion
Workshop: Nuclei - Moderated by Pavel Nadolsky
Wednesday, May 20th at 11:30am in SCGP 102
Speaker: Stephen Libby ([Remote] - Computing Atomic Physics with ‘Quantum Advantaged’ Algorithms), Alfred Mueller (The size of gluon occupancies in saturation), Jianwei Qiu (QCD multiple scattering and jet production in nuclear medium), Fred Olness (CTEQ and CSS: A Celebration of George’s Contributions to Science and Community), Maria Tejeda-Yeomans (Jets in the Quark-Gluon Plasma)
Title: Nuclei - Moderated by Pavel Nadolsky
Abstract: Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, followed by a 40 minute discussion.
Physics Seminar: Grant Remmen
Wednesday, May 20th at 2:00pm in 313
Title: Strings from Almost Nothing
Abstract: Is string theory unique? String amplitudes famously accomplish several extraordinary mathematical feats in order to UV-complete gravity, including exhibiting an infinite tower of spinning states and dual resonance. In this talk, I will show that string amplitudes can be uniquely bootstrapped from first principles, using techniques from the modern amplitudes program and quantum field theory to constrain the possibilities for quantum gravity from the bottom up. I will identify physical criteria for scattering amplitudes from which string theory—including its spectrum—emerges as the only consistent answer.