Name: Rethinking Quantum Field Theory
Start: 2016-09-27T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-09-30T13:00:00+02:00
Location: DESY Hamburg

Rethinking Quantum Field Theory

from Tuesday, September 27, 2016 (1:00 PM) to Friday, September 30, 2016 (1:00 PM)

Monday, September 26, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome - Gleb Arutyunov
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:10 PM UV Completion of Some UV Fixed Points - Igor Klebanov

2:50 PM The Yang-Mills gradient flow -- a new tool in non-perturbative QFT - Martin Luescher

3:30 PM Numerical Stochastic Perturbation Theory - Francesco Di Renzo
4:10 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
4:40 PM
4:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

4:40 PM C-theorems and Entanglement Entropy - Marina Huerta

5:20 PM N=2 SUSY field theories: A window into nonperturbative QFT ? - Joerg Teschner
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Joachim Mnich
9:10 AM
9:10 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:10 AM Quantum moduli spaces and quantum algebras - Vasily Pestun

9:50 AM From Yang-Mills Theory to the Veneziano Amplitude - Zohar Komargodsky

10:30 AM Comments on families of N=2 SCFTs - Kyriakos Papadodimas
11:10 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Main Auditorium
11:40 AM
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:40 AM Quantum Simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories - Uwe-Jens Wiese

12:20 PM A Duality Web in 2 + 1 Dimensions and the Unity of Physics - Nathan Seiberg
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: DESY Canteen
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 2
Contributions

2:00 PM keV Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter - Alexander Merle (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

2:15 PM Can massive primordial black holes be the dark matter? - Sebatien Clesse (RWTH Aachen University)

2:30 PM Light from Dark (Matter) via Multi-Wavelength Synergies - Stefano Stefano Camera (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester)

2:45 PM Model-independent approach to gamma-ray spectral features in dark matter indirect searches - Camilo Alfredo Garcia Cely (ULB)

3:00 PM Relic density at NLO: the IR finiteness - Andrzej Hryczuk (University of Oslo)

3:15 PM A halo independent comparison of direct dark matter searches - Andreas Rappelt (Technische Universität München)

3:30 PM Multicomponent WIMP Dark Matter from gauge symmetries - Christian Gross (Helsinki University)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 4b
Contributions

2:00 PM Differential Higgs Boson Pair Production at NNLO in QCD - Jonas Lindert (Zurich University)

2:20 PM Vector boson pair production in gluon fusion including interference effects with off-shell Higgs at the LHC - Lorenzo Tancredi (KIT Karlsruhe)

2:40 PM Tackling differential distributions for Higgs production at higher orders - Simone Lionetti (ETH Zurich)

3:00 PM The Higgs boson as a five-dimensional gauge field - Francesco Knechtli (Univ. Wuppertal)

3:20 PM LHC Benchmark Scenarios for the Real Higgs Singlet Extension of the Standard Model - Tania Robens (TU Dresden)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 4a
Contributions

2:00 PM Strongly Coannihilating Dark Matter at the LHC - Maikel de Vries (JGU Mainz)

2:20 PM A comprehensive approach to dark matter studies: exploration of simplified top-philic models - Jan Heisig (RWTH Aachen University)

2:40 PM Distinguishing Dirac and Majorana Sterile Neutrinos at LHC - Kechen Wang (DESY)

3:00 PM Lepton-flavour violation in a Pati-Salam model with gauged flavour symmetry - Paul Moch (Theoretische Physik 1 Elementarteilchenphysik Uni Siegen)

3:20 PM Realizing the Relaxion with N-site Models - Nayara Fonseca (DESY)
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Seminar room 1
Contributions

2:00 PM Exceptional F(4) Higher-Spin Theory in AdS(6) at One-Loop and other Tests of Duality - Evgeny Skvortsov

2:20 PM Complex structures and zero-curvature equations for sigma-models - Dmitri Bykov (Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik)

2:40 PM The semi-classical energy of rotating Nambu-Goto strings - Jochen Zahn (Universität Leipzig)

3:00 PM Structure constants in N=4 SYM from the OPE and from integrability - Burkhard Eden

3:20 PM Classification of maximally supersymmetric backgrounds in supergravity theories - Severin Lüst (Universität Hamburg)

3:35 PM Mordell-Weil Torsion in the Mirror of Multi-Sections - Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (DESY)
3:50 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:50 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Foyer Seminar rooms
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 2
Contributions

4:15 PM Leptogenesis from Oscillations of Heavy Neutrinos with Large Mixing Angles - Juraj Klarić (Technical University Munich)

4:30 PM Galactic sources: update information from gamma-rays experiments and implications for IceCube - Viviana Niro (IFT UAM/CSIS and UAM)

4:45 PM Flavor Cosmology: Dynamical Yukawas in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism - Iason Baldes (DESY)

5:00 PM Perspectives for tests of neutrino mass generation at the GeV scale: Experimental reach versus theoretical predictions - Rasmus Rasmussen (DESY)

5:15 PM Testing keV sterile neutrino dark matter in future direct detection experiments - Miguel Campos (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

5:30 PM Falsifying Baryogenesis Mechanisms through Observation of Lepton Number and Flavor Violation - Julia Harz (ILP / LPTHE Paris)
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 4a/b
Contributions

4:15 PM Three-jet production in electron-positron annihilation with the ColorFulNNLO method - Adam Kardos (University of Debrecen)

4:35 PM Four-jet production in single- and double-parton scattering within high-energy factorisation - Andreas van Hameren (IFJ PAN)

4:55 PM Recommendations for PDF usage in LHC predictions - Maria Vittoria Garzelli (Hamburg University)

5:15 PM The strong coupling of three flavor QCD - Tomasz Korzec (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

5:35 PM Progress in constructing epsilon form of differential equations for master integrals with Fuchsia - Oleksandr Gituliar (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 1
Contributions

4:15 PM Minkowski 3-forms and Axion Monodromy in String Theory - Irene Valenzuela (MPI, Munich)

4:35 PM Probing the geometry of BPS states with Spectral Networks - Pietro Longhi (Uppsala University)

4:55 PM N=3 four dimensional field theories - Diego Regalado (MPP Munich)

5:15 PM Rigid Superconformal Field Theories in three dimensions - Aswin Balasubramanian (DESY and Univ of Hamburg)

5:30 PM Quantization of super-Teichmuller theory - Nezhla Aghaei (DESY)
Thursday, September 29, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Integrability in gauge and string theory - Romuald Janik

9:40 AM Constructing Gravity Theories from Gauge Theories - Henrik Johansson

10:20 AM Worldsheet Models in Quantum Field Theory - Yvonne Geyer
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Main Auditorium
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 AM Quantum Field Theory Without Quantum Fields: Scattering Amplitudes as Binary Code - Nima Arkani-Hamed

12:10 PM Tensor Networks and their use for Lattice Gauge Theories - Mari Carmen Banuls
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: DESY Canteen
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 2
Contributions

2:00 PM Unifying inflation with the axion, dark matter, baryogenesis and the seesaw mechanism - Guillermo Ballesteros (IPhT CEA - Saclay)

2:15 PM A stable vacuum: why we found no SUSY - Wolfgang Gregor Hollik (DESY)

2:30 PM Metastability, Chaotic Inflation, and Primordial Black Holes - Kyohei Mukaida (Kavli IPMU)

2:45 PM Efficient calculation of cosmological neutrino clustering - Maria Archidiacono (RWTH Aachen University)

3:00 PM The Schroedinger method as field theoretical model to describe structure formation - Cora Uhlemann (Utrecht University)

3:15 PM Higgs instability during and after inflation - Marco Zatta (University of Helsinki)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 4a
Contributions

2:00 PM Conformal symmetry breaking and evolution equations in Quantum Chromodynamics - Matthias Strohmaier (University of Regensburg, Theoretical Particle Physics Department)

2:20 PM Crystalline Confined Phases in Lattice Gauge Theories - Debasish Banerjee (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen)

2:40 PM Two-loop Bhabha Scattering at High Energy beyond Leading Power - Nikolai Zerf (ITP University of Heidelberg)

3:00 PM Exploring the stop-bino coannihilation region with sbottom decays - Jiayin Gu (DESY)

3:20 PM SUSY parameters from higgsino measurements in high-energy electron-positron collisions - Suvi-Leena Lehtinen (DESY)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 4b
Contributions

2:00 PM Rethinking Higgs mass stability bounds - René Sondenheimer (TPI FSU Jena)

2:20 PM Two-Loop Corrections to the Higgs Masses in the Complex MSSM - Sebastian Paßehr (DESY)

2:40 PM Soft and Coulomb resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC - Christian Schwinn (RWTH Aachen)

3:00 PM CheckMATE: Confronting New Physics Model with LHC Data - Daniel Schmeier (Bonn University)

3:20 PM Prospects for Supersymmetry after current LHC results - Emanuele A. Bagnaschi (DESY)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 1
Contributions

2:00 PM Large-Charge Perturbation Theory - Orestis Loukas (University of Bern)

2:15 PM CHY in Collinear Limit - Wadim Wormsbecher (Hu Berlin)

2:30 PM Z-theory — non-linear sigma model amplitudes and more from open strings - Oliver Schlotterer (AEI Potsdam)

2:50 PM High-energy scattering in N=4 super Yang-Mills and single-valued polylogs - Martin Sprenger (ETH Zürich)

3:10 PM Master Symmetry for Holographic Wilson Loops - Florian Loebbert (Humboldt University Berlin)

3:30 PM Shape dependence of holographic Rényi entropy in general dimensions - Marco Meineri (EPFL)
3:45 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Foyer Seminar rooms
4:05 PM
4:05 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Seminar room 2
Contributions

4:05 PM Scale-invariant models of inflation: a geometrical interpretation - Javier Rubio (ITP Heidelberg)

4:20 PM Black holes in the lab - Nico Wintergerst (Stockholm University)

4:35 PM Rethinking baryon number conservation by black holes - Alexander Gussmann (Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center, LMU Munich)

4:50 PM Structure of Kaehler potential for D-term inflationary attractor models - Ken'ichi Saikawa (DESY)
4:05 PM - 5:25 PM
Room: Seminar room 4a/b
Contributions

4:05 PM Probing the electroweak interactions of top quarks at the LHC - Markus Schulze (HU Berlin)

4:25 PM Top pair production with a jet with NLO QCD off-shell effects at the LHC - Manfred Kraus (RWTH Aachen University)

4:45 PM NLO+PS for ttbar and Wt production and decay including non-resonant and interference effects - Jonas Lindert (Zurich University)

5:05 PM Observing the Top Energy Asymmetry at the LHC - Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University)
4:05 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Seminar room 1
Contributions

4:05 PM The N=2 superconformal bootstrap - Pedro Liendo (DESY)

4:25 PM Wedge-local fields in interacting quantum field theories with bound states - Daniela Cadamuro (Universität Göttingen)

4:45 PM Green-Schwarz superstring on the lattice - Lorenzo Bianchi (Hamburg University)

5:00 PM Beyond complex Langevin equations - Jacek Wosiek (Jagellonian University)
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

5:30 PM Hertz Lecture - Nathan Seiberg
7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Canteen extension
Friday, September 30, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Locality and Quantum Physics: the Algebraic Approach to Quantum Field Theory - Klaus Fredenhagen

9:40 AM Conformal bootstrap overview - Balt Van Rees

10:20 AM Unitarity and positivity constraints for CFT at large and central charge - Luis Fernando Alday
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Main Auditorium
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 AM RG Inequalities in Diverse Dimensions - Thomas Dumitrescu

12:10 PM Restriction on the initial state for the absence of IR effect in single field inflation - Takahiro Tanaka