Conferences and Meetings on High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Modularity is at the heart of many deep results in mathematics--from the proof of Fermat’s last theorem to moonshine to the Langlands correspondence. At the same time, modular group representations and automorphic forms underlie many interesting physical phenomena in quantum field theory and string theory, including understanding of dualities, boundary conditions, and supersymmetric black holes, among other things. This conference will bring together physicists and mathematicians to discuss emerging connections between a web of fundamental objects in physics and mathematics, united in the crucial role played by modularity.

new moonshines and mock modular forms; vertex operator algebras arising in supersymmetric gauge theories; topological invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds; topological QFTs and topological phases in condensed matter physics; topological string theory, Donaldson-Thomas theory, and enumerative geometry; scattering amplitudes in string theory; 2d conformal field theories, the modular bootstrap, and connections to 3d quantum gravity

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory,    Mathematical Physics

J-PARC, RCNP-Osaka, ELPH-Tohoku, KEK-IINAS, ASRC JAEA, ANPhA, RIKEN Nishina Center and GP-PU of Tohoku Univ.

The school will have several lectures and topical talks on strangeness nuclear physics as well as other related and wider subjects from hadron to cold atom physics. We believe that such wider discussions are useful for young physicists and also to researches conducted at accelerator facilities for hadron beams such as J-PARC (Japan), GSI and FAIR (Germany), RCNP (Japan) and for electron beams as CEBAF at Jefferson Lab (USA), MAMI-C at Mainz University (Germany) and ELPH at Tohoku University (Japan) etc. Lectures by leading physicists will overview related subjects both from experiment and theory, and topical talks on recent progress and future prospects of the fields will be also given.

The Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA)

The conference aims to strengthen cooperation among nuclear physicists in Asia, promote nuclear science education in Asia, encourage Asian nuclear scientists to coordinate through the use of existing research facilities, and discuss future plans for nuclear science facilities in Asia. The 2020 Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA) meeting & the ANPhA symposium on nuclear physics facilities in Asia will be held Zoom on Dec 10-11 this year, hosted by The University of Hong Kong. The conference consists of two parts: the first day will be a symposium on Asian nuclear physics research facilities, which will exchange research work on existing nuclear physics research facilities in Asia, and discuss the future plans for nuclear science facilities in Asia; the second day is the ANPhA board meeting that will discuss cooperation among Asian countries and regions in nuclear science research and education and nuclear physics facilities, and will select the next Council.

Nuclear Physics,    Multidisciplinary Events in Physics

Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal)

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

The subject of magnetic monopoles is by now classic in both physics and mathematics. Since intense advancements in mid 1970’s, numerous deep connections to theoretical physics, algebraic geometry, and geometric analysis have been discovered. Nonetheless, many important problems remain unsolved. Recently, monopoles acquired new significance in areas such as string theory, the Seiberg--Witten theory, quantum gauge-theory spaces of vacua, knot invariants, and the Geometric Langlands correspondence. This workshop brings together experts from around the world advancing very different perspectives, identify important open problems, and connecting diverse methods used by different groups.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Mathematical Physics

Mathematical Physics,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Particle Accelerators,    Scientific Computing

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

This five-day workshop will facilitate an intensive exchange of ideas between string theorists, condensed matter physicists, atomic physicists and researchers with other areas of expertise actively working on theory and applications of quantum chaos. The main goals of the workshop is both to introduce researches from different communities to key models and results and to outline unresolved problems actively investigated by these different communities. Such a meeting should allow us to consolidate new ways of quantifying many-body quantum chaos and highlight their implications for important questions of different disciplines.

Mathematical Physics,    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials

The Neutrino Telescopes Workshop is one of the most prestigious and longest tradition international events in the field of Particle Physics. It dates back to 1988 when Prof. Milla Baldo Ceolin conceived it and launched the first edition. It soon developed into a discussion forum for the latest discoveries and new ideas shaping the fascinating future scenarios in topics ranging from Neutrinos to Astrophysics and Cosmology.

The 2021 edition will focus to the original, at the time pioneering, topics of the workshop: Large Detectors for Neutrino Astrophysics together with a rich program ranging from neutrino physics, flavour physics to cosmology.

Due to Covid19 - Sars-Cov-2 circumstances, it will be held online. Registration is free but mandatory

The XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes is organized by the INFN Padova Unit and by the Physics and Astronomy Department of Padova University.

Under the patronage of the University of Padova celebrating in 2022 its 800 years of activity.

Secretariat (Giuseppina Salente);     Email: salente@pd.infn.it

neutrino, multi-messanger astrophysics

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory,    Metrology and Instrumentation

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

Rich mathematical structures appear in supersymmetric quantum field theories. These provide new perspectives on deep mathematics while at the same time allow for a better understanding of the quantum field theories. This workshop brings together experts from different areas in mathematics and theoretical physics with the aim of deepening our understanding and to foster new interdisciplinary collaborations.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Geometry and Topology

Organised by IOP Astroparticle, High Energy Particle & Nuclear Physics Groups

A combined annual meeting of the IOP Astroparticle Physics Group, the High Energy Particle Physics Group and the Nuclear Physics Group.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Nuclear Physics

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s facility for probing fundamental physics at the electroweak scale and well beyond. As it enters a new phase of extended data accumulation, two broad challenges emerge: how to fulfill the potential for percent-level precision with the large dataset, and how to maximise the information that can be extracted from each event about the underlying scattering process, in particular with machine learning. Solving these problems will have an impact across a wide range of physics topics: establishing the properties of the newly discovered interactions of the Higgs sector and understanding electroweak symmetry breaking, enhancing the sensitivity of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), and precision measurements of a range of fundamental parameters in the Standard Model.

Neutrino physics is one of the most flourishing fields in particle physics. Neutrinos are elementary particles of nature, and scientists found they have mass. This was the topic of the 2015 Nobel prize, and is the only clear evidence for this mass beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Scientists all over the world study properties of neutrinos or use neutrinos as a new tool to investigate astrophysical objects and fundamental properties of the universe. In this talk Dr Katori will review particle physics and the status of the most exciting neutrino projects in the world.

This event may also be delivered as an online webinar. If necessary due to Coronavirus or venue restrictions it will be an online webinar only.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

New experiments are challenging our conventional understanding of past, present, and future in the quantum world. This workshop will, therefore, explore the very foundations of our understanding of space, time, and gravity by looking at new mathematical concepts and methods related to the quantum processes of measuring location, orientation, speed, cause and effect. We expect to forge a path that blends together new ideas on how our description of the structure of space and time must be modified to fully understand how to combine gravity with quantum physics.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory

Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI)

The topic of our programme is the string landscape and the swampland and should be understood in a broad sense.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

Particle Physicists study matter at is smallest scale and try to reveal how the physical world is constructed from elementary particles and the forces acting between them. The well-known proton, neutron and similar particles are composed of quarks. Atoms also contain electrons; together with the two heavier versions of the electron (the muon and tau), each with its associated neutrino, they make up the group of leptons. Another ingredient of the catalogue of particles is the Higgs boson, discovered at the CERN Lab's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.

Probability and Statistics, Game Theory,    Scientific Computing

Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society.

The Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise (a.k.a. “Snowmass”) is organized by the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society. Snowmass is a scientific study. It provides an opportunity for the entire particle physics community to come together to identify and document a scientific vision for the future of particle physics in the U.S. and its international partners. The P5 (Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel) will take the scientific input from Snowmass and develop a strategic plan for U.S. particle physics that can be executed over a 10 year timescale, in the context of a 20-year global vision for the field.

The conference is jointly organized by TRIUMF (Vancouver, Canada) and Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada).

The scientific program will be devoted to the latest experimental and theoretical developments in nucleus nucleus collisions with a wide range of topics.

Fusion and Fission Hadron Physics and QCD Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, QGP Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter Nuclear Structure from collisions Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Astrophysics Heavy and Superheavy Elements Instrumentation and Facilities Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies

Nuclear Physics,    Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion

This school is intended for young researchers (master students, PhD students and young postdocs) involved in the global effort of investigating the large excess of the measured value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment over the Standard Model prediction. The lecture schedule will be complemented by dedicated sessions for discussions, exercises and posters along with social activities to encourage networking and a vivid exchange of ideas.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Mathematical Physics

Stefan Meyer Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Low-energy QCD Precision experiments with atoms, neutrons, and charged particles, Antihydrogen: CPT and gravity, Leptonic atoms: QED and gravity, CP violation, Kaon-nucleon and kaon-nucleus interaction, Cosmology, dark matter and energy, Neutrino physics, Hadron physics at colliders, Future facilities and instrumentation

Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

Recently, there has been great interest in determining criteria which differentiate between effective low-energy field theories which can be consistently completed in the ultraviolet into quantum gravity, said to be in the ‘Landscape’, from theories which appear consistent but nonetheless defy such a coupling to quantum gravity, the so-called ‘Swampland’. A number of such criteria, or Swampland Conjectures, have been proposed in the literature and attracted considerable interest in the high energy physics community. If confirmed, they have far-reaching consequences for physics and cosmology, such as for the structure of large field inflation in early time cosmology or for the mechanism responsible for the observed late-time acceleration of the universe, to name but the most striking ones. On the other hand, the Swampland Conjectures translate, in the context of string theory, into conjectures regarding the structure of possible compactifications, or string geometries. String theory is therefore in a unique position to quantitatively test - and possibly refine - such general Swampland Conjectures. This Scientific Program proposes to study these intriguing connections between general properties of quantum gravity and the geometry of string compactifications. It aims to bring together world experts working at the forefront of research in string theory, field theoretic aspects of quantum gravity, and geometry at this unique time in which our understanding of the Swampland is quickly evolving.

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA

The aim of this program is to connect efforts of the mathematical and physical sciences communities to address the latest advances and new challenges on the understanding of multi-messenger astronomy. The IPAM program will comprise four workshops, each addressing a different topic: the generation of catalogs of waveform templates; the discussion of the mathematical modeling of the equations governing strong relativistic systems; parameter estimation of astrophysical sources of gravitational waves; and the state of the art of big data and deep learning techniques for GW data analysis.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Scientific Computing

Indiana University

TAU2021 is the 16th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics in the series devoted to the physics of the tau lepton and its associated neutrino. The goal of the workshop is to bring theorists and experimentalists together to discuss recent progress in the field. Latest results from e+e- colliders (Belle II, BESIII experiments), the proton-proton colliders (ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments), g-2 and the neutrino experiments (DUNE, MINOS, etc.) will be presented. Properties of the tau lepton, as well as methods of using tau leptons as a probe for new physics, will be discussed, along with a review of future experimental projects.

Conference coordinator;     Phone: [+1 812-855-5466];     Email: tau2021@indiana.edu

Hadronic decays, CP and T violation, CKM matrix and Flavour Mixing, Rare decays, Precision SM tests, CPT and Quantum Mechanics, Lepton universality and flavour violation, Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the muon, Neutrino Physics, Chiral perturbation theory, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Future opportunities in Tau Physics

Nuclear Physics,    Particle Accelerators

University of Genova and INFN-Sezione di Genova

A conference to gather an overview of the status and future prospects of astrophysics and cosmology with a multimessenger approach. The conference will feature only plenary sessions on the following topics: astrophysics with electromagnetic waves, astrophysics with gravitational waves, astroparticle physics and neutrino astrophysics, nuclear astrophysics, cosmology. The conference was originally planned for 2020 and moved to 2021 because of the Covid-19 emergency situation.

Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

Boundaries and defects have been at the heart of crucial developments in theoretical physics in the last 20 years: holography (field theories could live at the boundary of a higher- dimensional gravitational theory), entanglement (the entangling surface can be treated as a defect), black holes (the horizon is a boundary), topological insulators and semi-metals (the topologically-protected massless modes live at the boundary), and non-local operators such as Wilson and ‘t Hooft lines (defects defined by appropriate boundary conditions). Additionally, many other areas have made major advances in recent years whose implications for quantum field theory with boundaries and defects have yet to be explored fully: the conformal bootstrap, dualities among (2+1)d quantum field theories, supersymmetric localization, integrability, and so on. However, progress in these areas has largely been carried out by separated communities working in isolation from the others. This scientific program thus aims to bring together a diverse group of leading theorists interested in boundaries and defects in quantum field theory, from the formal/mathematical to the applied, to forge collaborations between different areas, identify common subjects and complementary approaches, and set the agenda for future developments and new applications.

The three broad focus areas will be: Conformal field theories with boundaries and defects Supersymmetry and Duality with boundaries and defects Curved space, gravity and entanglement

Understanding quantum gravity is one of the main open questions in modern theoretical physics. Holographic duality constitutes a major advance in this direction linking together quantum field theory and quantum gravity and in particular string theory. This meeting aims to bring together a diverse set of international experts working on the intersecting fields of string theory, quantum field theory and holography.

Pablo de Olavide University, Seville; University of Seville; and University of Huelva

This conference series began in 1970 at Duke University. The Seville meeting follows the successful events in Glasgow (2013) and Tallahassee (2016); and canvass similar themes. It will highlight the physics of baryons and related subjects in astro-, nuclear- and particle-physics, developing our understanding of the spectrum, structure and reactions of baryons using all available tools. Particular emphasis will be placed on elucidating the role of confinement and emergent mass, key non-perturbative phenomena within the Standard Model. Recent developments at existing facilities and those anticipated from the next-generation will also be showcased.

Email: jsegovia@upo.es

Spectroscopy of Light / Heavy Flavor Hadrons, Structure of Hadrons, Recent Approaches to Non-Perturbative QCD, Exotic Baryons, Hadrons at Finite Density and Temperature, Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions, Hadron-Hadron Interactions, New Facilities and Instrumentation.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

An outstanding problem of modern physics is the reconciliation of the two most successful broad theories of physics: general relativity, which describes the gravitational force exerted by massive objects in terms of the bending and rippling of spacetime, and quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of matter on the minute scales of subatomic particles such as electrons. While both theories are remarkably successful independently, they appear to give contradictory predictions of phenomena that involve gravity at the small scales at which quantum mechanics is relevant. Such phenomena include the Big Bang, when the universe was small enough to be described by quantum mechanics and sufficiently dense to also require a gravitational description; also the process of the final stages of the death of a large star, when a black hole is formed and the star’s matter is concentrated in an extremely small volume. A proper description of these phenomena requires a unified theory of quantum gravity.

Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO) in Mexico, and the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) in Banff, Canada

Gravitational-waves are a new way to explore the sky and uncover the Universe’s deepest mysteries. Although the first detection of these "ripples of space-time" is only a few years old, scientists can now harness the potential of gravitational waves in testing Einstein’s General Relativity theory under extreme conditions, helping to understand the origin of matter, and measuring the evolution of the Universe. Researchers from all around the world are gathering in Oaxaca to discuss recent progress in, and the future of gravitational-wave science. The workshop "Detection and analysis of gravitational waves in the era of multi-messenger astronomy: From mathematical modelling to machine learning", provides a forum, unique in its genre, for discussing new mathematical methods in modelling, detecting, and analyzing gravitational waves, as well as their integration with machine learning, or artificial intelligence.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology