MHV @ 30: Amplitudes and Modern Applications

16 Mar 2016, 08:00 → 19 Mar 2016, 13:00 US/Central

One West (Wilson Hall)

The workshop will feature presentations on the latest progress in the understanding of amplitude properties in gauge theories and in gravity.  It will cover advances on both formal and applied sides and is being organized on the occasion of 30 years of MHV amplitudes.

Scientific Organizing Committee:
Luis Alday (Oxford), Zvi Bern (UCLA), Ruth Britto (Trinity College Dublin), Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Inst.), John Campbell (Fermilab), Lance Dixon (SLAC), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Stephen Parke (Fermilab), Tomasz Taylor (Northeastern), Anastasia Volovich (Brown)

Participants Final_Participants_List.pdf

Wednesday, 16 March

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1

09:00 From discovery of the gluon jet to the NNLO precision for multi-jet production

Speaker: Zoltan Kunszt

Slides kunsztMHV.pdf

09:45 From Maximal Helicity to Maximal Jets

Speaker: David Kosower

Slides From_Maximal_Helicity_to_Maximal_Jets_(MHV_@_30,_March_16-19,_2016).pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2

11:00 Twistors and Amplitudes

Speaker: Andrew Hodges

Slides FermiTalkHodges.pdf

11:45 MHV Amplitudes from 0 to 5 loops

Speaker: Lance Dixon

Slides MHV0to5.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 3

14:00 Analytic result for a two-loop five-particle amplitude in QCD

Speaker: Johannes Henn

Link to paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05409

14:45 Scattering Forms as Binary Code

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:00 Colloquium

16:00 From the Parke-Taylor Amplitude to Deeper Origins for Space-time and Quantum Mechanics

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed

Abstract http://www.fnal.gov/pub/colloquium/abs/Hamed_03_16_16.pdf

Video stream http://vms.fnal.gov/asset/detail?recid=1940339

17:45 → 20:00 Reception

Thursday, 17 March

09:00 → 10:30 Session 4

09:00 A curious story of gravity in the ultraviolet

Speaker: Zvi Bern

Slides fermilab_grav.pdf

09:45 Hidden Simplicity in QCD and Gravity Amplitudes

Speaker: Henrik Johansson

Slides MHV30_Johansson.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 5

11:00 Geometry of non-planar amplitudes

Speaker: Jaroslav Trnka

Slides Trnka_MHV30.pdf

11:45 Cuts and discontinuities

Speaker: Ruth Britto

Slides BrittoMHV30.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch/NuMI tour

14:30 → 16:45 Session 6

14:30 Integral reduction via the tangent algebra of affine varieties

Speaker: Yang Zhang

Slides MHV@30s_2016.pdf

15:15 The cluster bootstrap for amplitudes/Wilson loops

Speaker: James Drummond

Slides Fermilab_MHV@30.pdf

16:00 Hidden symmetries and subleading soft and collinear limits of gluon amplitudes

Speaker: Jan Plefka

16:45 → 18:00 NuMI tour

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Friday, 18 March

09:00 → 10:30 Session 7

09:00 Double-copies from scattering to rotating black holes, a mostly positive take, with only two negatives

Speaker: John Joseph Carrasco

Slides carrascoMHV_at_30_small.pdf

09:45 Landau Singularities, Cluster Structure and Symbology

Speaker: Anastasia Volovich

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 8

11:00 Superstring Amplitudes: MHV and Beyond

Speaker: Stephan Stieberger

Slides mhv.pdf

11:45 Infinite Dimensional Symmetries from Holography and Holomorphy

Speaker: Clifford Cheung

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 9

14:00 Adaptive Unitarity and Magnus Exponential for Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Slides mastrolia_MHVat30.pdf

14:45 More-than-MHV amplitudes in QCD

Speaker: Simon Badger

Slides SB_MHVat30.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Wine & cheese

16:00 → 17:00 Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Wine & Cheese Seminar"

16:00 Precision physics with high-energy colliders: challenges and opportunities

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides Mangano-MHV30_forPDF.pdf

Saturday, 19 March

09:00 → 11:15 Session 10

09:00 GR == Open String x Open String

Speaker: Ellis Yuan

09:45 From MHV amplitudes to the CHY formulation

Speaker: Song He

Slides MHV30.pdf

10:30 General Solution of the Scattering Equations

Speaker: Louise Dolan

Slides mhv30Dolan.pdf

11:15 → 11:45 Coffee

11:45 → 12:15 Session 11

11:45 Discussion and close