GK 1504 Concluding Colloquium

Friday Mar 9, 2018, 1:00 PM → 7:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Gerthsen lecture hall (1 201) (Humboldt-University Berlin)

Heiko Lacker (Humboldt University of Berlin), Jan Plefka (Humboldt University Berlin), Michael Kobel (TU Dresden), Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Ceremonial colloquium to celebrate the successful end after two funding periods of the graduate school "Mass, spectrum, symmetry" between Humboldt-University Berlin, TU Dresden, and DESY.

Please register here until latest 9th of February.

If you do not have an Indico account at DESY, you can log in at your CERN Indico account in your browser and also DESY indico should be available. If neither way works, please write a short mail to moritz.huetten@hu-berlin.de to register.

1:00 PM → 3:15 PM Lectures by former students of the graduate school (I)

Convener: Prof. Jan Plefka (Humboldt University Berlin)

1:00 PM Welcoming speeches

Speakers: Prof. Heiko Lacker (Humboldt University of Berlin), Prof. Jan Plefka (Humboldt University Berlin)

Slides GRK1504_Abschied.key

1:15 PM Cross Singularities of Maldacena–Wilson Loops

Speaker: Dr Hagen Münkler (ETH Zürich)

1:45 PM How Lattice Gauge Theory solves Physics Riddles: Unravelling the mysteries of strong interaction with supercomputers

This talk will introduce you to the challenges we face when pushing the boundaries of both today’s physics and computing capabilities – more important for fundamental physics than ever. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the quantum field theory that describes one of the Standard Model interactions, the strong force, which is holding quarks and gluons together to form hadrons. In the low energy regime of QCD many phenomena are non-perturbative, and the way to study them from first principles is obtained if continuous space-time is replaced by Euclidean lattice. Thus the name of the field - Lattice QCD. The simulations in lattice QCD are computationally very demanding and require massive parallelization, powerful computers and constant algorithmic development. In this talk, I will provide an introductory presentation to this rapidly evolving field and demonstrate how supercomputers can be helpful in the determination of fundamental constants of nature and in the search for new laws of physics. The seminar is adopted to the larger public – join and participate with questions.

Speaker: Dr Marina Marinkovic (CERN)

Slides GRK1504_Seminar_Marina_Marinkovic.pdf

2:15 PM Search for dark matter annihilation with astroparticles

Speaker: Dr Moritz Hütten (HU Berlin/DESY Zeuthen)

Slides 2018-GK-Kolloquium.pdf

2:45 PM From Theoretical Physics to Renewable Energy Trading

Speaker: Dr Konstantin Wiegandt (Statkraft)

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee break

3:45 PM → 5:00 PM Lectures by former students of the graduate school (II)

Convener: Prof. Michael Kobel (TU Dresden)

3:45 PM Welcoming speech: A short retrospection on nine years GK 1504

Speaker: Dr Martin zur Nedden (former coordinator of the graduate school)

Slides GK1504_Ablschlusskolloquium_2018.pdf

4:00 PM Exploring Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from the LHC to CLIC

Speaker: Dr Ulrike Schnoor (Universität Freiburg)

Slides UlrikeSchnoor_GK2018.pdf

4:30 PM Beyond the Standard Model: Non-minimal Supersymmetry at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Philip Dießner (DESY)

Slides Philip_Diessner.pdf

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Scattering Amplitudes and Precision Theory for the LHC

Ceremonial lecture

Speaker: Prof. Lance Dixon (SLAC)

Slides LD.HumboldtColloq.pdf

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Reception

Closing ceremony of the graduate school with sparkling wine and finger-food (non-alcoholic beverages will also be provided).