Program Schedule

17 November | 18 November | 19 November | 20 November | 21 November

"Speakers should leave 5 minutes at the end of their talks for questions and discussion"

17 November (Mon)

Time Program
09:00-09:30 Registration and Welcome
09:30-10:45 “Tutorial: An Overview of Amplitudes”
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Marcus Spradlin (Brown University)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:30 “Tutorial: BCFW On-shell Recursion”
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Bo Feng (Zhejiang University)
12:30-14:00 Lunch Reception (5/F Lounge, Lo Ka Chung Building)
14:00-15:15 “Tutorial: Integrals and Polylogs”
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Johannes Henn (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:30 “Energy - Energy Correlations”
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Gregory Korchemsky (CEA Saclay)
16:30-17:15 “Cutting Through form Factors and Cross Sections of Non-protected Operators in N=4 SYM”
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Gang Yang (Humboldt University of Berlin)

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18 November (Tue)

Time Program
09:00-09:45 “Scattering-equation-based Formulas”
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Ellis Yuan (University of Waterloo)
09:45-10:30 “(Relatively) Orienting Volume-Forms on Positroid Configurations”
Jacob Bourjaily (Niels Bohr Institute)
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 "On the Singularity Structure of Maximally Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes”
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Jaroslav Trnka (California Institute of Technology)
12:00-14:00 Light Lunch (Open area, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building)
14:00-14:30 "Logarithm Singularities of Super-Yang-Mills Amplitudes"
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Enrico Hermann (California Institute of Technology)
14:30-15:15 “Functions Associated to Scattering Amplitudes”
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Stefan Weinzierl (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:30 N3LO Corrections to Higgs Production”
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Claude Duhr (Université catholique de Louvain)
16:30-17:15 "The BCJ Double Copy and Kerr-Schild Metrics"
Donal O' Connell (University Edinburgh)
17:15-18:00 Free time
18:00-20:30 Dinner banquet at Sai Kung

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19 November (Wed)

Time Program
09:00-09:45 “Yang-Mills-Einstein Theory as a Double Copy”
Henrik Johansson (Uppsala/Nordita/CERN)
09:45-10:30 “Maximal Unitarity at Two Loops”
Kasper Larsen (ETH Zurich)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 “The Integrand Reduction of Multiloop Scattering Amplitudes”
Pierpaolo Mastrolia (MPI Munich and Padova University)
11:45-12:30 "Aspects of Scattering Amplitude Beyond Four-dimensions"
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Yu-tin Huang (National Taiwan University)
12:30 onwards Self-arrange lunch and free time

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20 November (Thu)

Time Program
09:00-09:45 “Applications of Modern Methods to Collider Physics”
Harald Ita (Freiburg University)
09:45-10:30 “The Amplituhedron”
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 "Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes”
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

 

*This lecture will be held at the IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building (Download Group Photo here)

12:30-14:00 Light Lunch (Open area, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building)
14:00-14:30 "Generalized BCFW Recursion Relation with Boundary Terms"
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Junjie Rao (Zhejiang University)
14:30-15:15 “Spinor Integration, Triangle Coefficients and Applications”
Tristan Dennen (Niels Bohr Insititue)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:30 “Multi-loop Integrand Reduction”
Simon Badger (CERN)
16:30-17:15 “Elliptic Functions and Maximal Unitarity”
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Yang Zhang (ETH Zurich)

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21 November (Fri)

Time Program
09:00-09:45 "On the Regge Limit of Scattering Amplitudes"
Benjamin Basso (École Normale Supérieure)
09:45-10:30 "Antenna in ABJ(M) Theory"
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Soo-jong Rey (Seoul National University)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 “Enhanced Cancellations and Ultraviolet Finiteness in Supergravity"
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Scott Davies (University of California at Los Angeles)
11:45-12:30 “From Functional to Algebraic Integrands / The Virtues of an Asymmetric Representation”
John Joseph Carrasco (Stanford University)
12:30-14:00 Light Lunch (Open area, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building)
14:00-14:30 “Color-Kinematics Duality for Pure Yang-Mills and Gravity at One and Two Loops”
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Josh Nohle (University of California at Los Angeles)
14:30-15:00 "Double Soft Limits of Supergravity Theories"
Wei-Ming Chen
15:00- 15:30 Coffee break
15:30- 16:15 “Soft and Collinear Limits of Gravity Scattering Amplitudes”
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Dave Dunbar (Swansea University)
16:30-17:15 “Maximal Unitarity and Algebraic Geometry”
David Kosower (CEA Saclay)

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Venue: IAS1038, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST



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