Friday, Nov 5
10:00 AM -
3:30 PM EDT
watch the lectures
Scattering amplitudes provide a time-honored probe of the mathematical and physical content of quantum field theory. Recent years have seen dramatic developments in this area. Fundamental principles of causality and unitarity lead to new consistency conditions, while novel considerations have enabled perturbative calculations to be carried out to loop orders that were previously intractable. Through this work new mathematical structures have begun to emerge, such as the central role played by positive geometry. This workshop will review these recent developments and point ways toward future advances.
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Negative amplituhedron geometries and amplitudes at strong coupling
Jaroslav Trnka, University of California, Davis
speaker
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Particle scattering and number theory
Lance Dixon, SLAC, Stanford University
abstract | speaker
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Particles and strings, polytopes and binary geometries
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study
speaker
Organizers:
Daniel Kabat, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sebastian Franco, City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Vladimir Rosenhaus, The Graduate Center, CUNY
are you a student looking for a primer to the talks?
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in attending the symposium
are invited to online tutorials available on the following dates:
Wed 3 Nov at 1 PM EDT
Wed 10 Nov at 2 PM EST
Interested in more tutorials?
Check out the full schedule of tutorials offered at ITS this semester here.