Conferences and Meetings on High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

REF 2019 is the 6th workshop in the series of workshops on Resummation, Evolution, Factorization. It aims to bring together experts who deal with high-energy hadronic processes where the transverse momentum of the involved partons plays a relevant role. This includes researchers of different communities specialized in, e.g., nucleon structure, transverse-momentum-dependent functions, small-x physics, jet physics, heavy-quark production, multi-parton interactions, etc. Factorization theorems and resummation of large logarithms through evolution equations are key concepts for all these communities, which address overlapping physical phenomena with however different languages, calling for mutual understanding. Indeed, the REF series of workshops aims at bridging the gap among them, to promote development and potential synergies, in view of the wealth of data taken at facilities like the LHC, RHIC or JLab, and future planned ones like the EIC.

Email: mgechevarria@pv.infn.it

The school offers a broad training program including: - the theoretical aspects of the acceleration and propagation of non-thermal particles, - direct and indirect measurements of cosmic rays, - the role of cosmic rays in astrophysics and its place in multi-messenger astronomy and the understanding of dark matter, - two practical sessions on propagation models and their comparison to direct measurements, and data analysis with the future Cherenkov Telescope Array.

The school is aimed primarily at students and young researchers wishing to build or perfect their knowledge of cosmic rays. Financial support is available for PhD students and CNRS staff can benefit from a support for the stay.

Phone: [+33 4 91269519];     Email: triay@cpt.univ-mrs.fr

Physics of acceleration and transport — Direct measures — Indirect measures — Cosmic rays and interstellar medium — Cosmic rays and dark matter

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

The Workshop in High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP) is a series of international workshops on Particle Physics, with the main focus being on particle physics phenomenology and its relation to both formal theory and experiment. They are held in every alternate years and constitute the most important international event in particle physics phenomenology which is held regularly in India. The activities of this workshop cover almost entire area of particle physics dividing into various working groups according to topics. The upcoming edition will be held in IIT Guwahati.

Email: whepp16@gmail.com

The 2019 TeV Particle Astrophysics conference (TeVPA 2019) will be hosted by the University of Sydney from December 2 to December 6, 2019, at the Sydney Nanoscience Hub, located on the University's Camperdown Campus. TeVPA 2019 aims to bring together leading scientists in the field to discuss the latest results and ideas, and prospects for progress in Astroparticle Physics. The conference will feature invited plenary talks covering the topics of recent interest. A number of parallel and poster sessions will provide an opportunity for junior scientists to present their work.

Email: tevpa.conference@sydney.edu.au

cosmic rays, cosmology, dark matter, extragalactic sources, galactic sources, gravitational waves and followup, neutrinos, particle physics.

The Royal Society

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Maxime Jacquet, Dr Silke Weinfurtner and Dr Friedrich König. The discussion meeting brings together scientists who reproduce effects of the interplay between general relativity and quantum physics in the laboratory. From the foundational ideas of the research programme to its latest experimental breakthroughs and their philosophical implications, participants will discuss the present state of the field and possible routes to the future. This meeting is free to attend but advance registration is essential.

Scientific Programmes Team;     Phone: [02074512500];     Email: scientific.meetings@royalsociety.org

general relativity, quantum physics, spacetime, event horizon, classical gravity, Hawking Radiation

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory

Institute of Physics – IOP

The workshop brings together the nuclear and particle physics communities to discuss the latest developments (experimental and theoretical) in exotic and conventional hadron spectroscopy. It is the third in a series of workshops on this topic, following previous events at the University of Edinburgh.

The Annual Theory Christmas Meeting will again be held in Durham, 16-18th December, hosted by the Centre for Particle Theory and organized by the IPPP. Following tradition, we use the format of three days of talks from world-class speakers reviewing the latest developments in the key areas of our subject. The Annual Theory Meeting is followed by the STFC Particle Theory Town Meeting on 18th December, 2019.

The Mathematics Research Unit, The University of Luxembourg

The conference will bring researchers across both the fields of mathematics and physics together in order to discuss recently developed topics, on-going work and speculative new ideas within supergeometry and its applications in physics. This event offers a unique opportunity to unite physicists and mathematicians who share a common interest in supermathematics. There will be enough time available for discussions between the participants and there will be a poster session.

Email: andrew.bruce@uni.lu

Supermanifolds and their generalizations (e.g., superschemes, color supermanifolds, noncommutative supergeometry...), Super Lie groups and Lie superalgebras, Supergeometric methods in physics, Geometric aspects of supersymmetric field theories, superstrings, and supergravity, Mathematical aspects of the BV-BRST formalism.

Geometry and Topology,    Mathematical Physics

Institute of Physics – IOP

Prof Martin Hendry Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology will be speaking about detecting Gravitational Waves.

18 Dec 2019 17:00 to 20:00

The 16th Rencontres du Vietnam conference, entitled "Theory meeting experiment: particle astrophysics and cosmology" (TMEX-2020), will be devoted to topics in the lively field of particle astrophysics and cosmology. The main topics will cover: - Dark matter - Gravitational waves - Gamma rays and cosmic rays - Neutrinos - Cosmology - Time domain and multi-messenger astronomy, - Future experiments and facilities. The conference will consist mainly of plenary sessions, with both review and contributed talks.

Phone: [+33169082960];     Email: emmanuel.moulin@cea.fr

Non-vanishing neutrino masses and the existence of non-baryonic Dark Matter (DM) represent the only two firm observational evidences of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Proposed neutrino species can also in principle constitute the bulk of the dark matter. They may moreover leave different signatures on astrophysical scales than the hitherto standard WIMP-based cold dark matter. As the parameter space for the latter is increasingly constrained experimentally, such alternates become more relevant, along with others such as the lately topical ultra-light axions.

The NDM-2020 aims to be a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas regarding the particle phenomenology, astrophysical signatures and experimental constraints related to those two fundamental and actively studied issues in particle and astroparticle physics, namely neutrinos and dark matter, and their possible connections.

The Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP), Zewail City of Science and Technology. cfp@zewailcity.edu.eg

Neutrinos masses and mixing, Neutrinos and cosmology, Heavy neutrinos, Sterile neutrinos, Neutrino oscillation experiments, Neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, New ideas on lepton number conservation, WIMP phenomenology, Light DM, Direct detection of DM, Indirect detection of DM and DM searches at the LHC.

Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics (Nordita)

Nordita, the Nordic institute of Theoretical Physics in Stockholm, is arranging a Winter School on January 13 – 24, 2020. The theme for this year’s school is Theoretical Cosmology. The purpose of this winter school is to provide late PHD students and young postdocs with introductory and advanced courses in a range of the most important topics in the field of Theoretical Cosmology.

Email: winterschool@nordita.org

Theoretical Cosmology, Cosmology

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Universidad de Costa Rica

Hadron Structure, Phases of Nuclear Matter, QCD High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Reactions and Exotic Nuclei. Precision Measurements with Nuclei, Fundamental Interactions and Neutrinos. Medical Physics (Radiotherapy, Nuclear Medicine, Radiodiagnostics, MRI, radiation protection, Ultrasound and Monte Carlo simulations) Nuclear Analytical Techniques and Applications in Art, Archaeology, Environment, Oceanography, Energy, Space and Security. Nuclear Instrumentation and Facilities. Education on Nuclear Physics and Applications.

Long-standing conference bringing together researchers and students from various fields of subatomic physics. The conference location is Bormio, a beautiful mountain resort in the Italian Alps.

Tbilisi State University

This workshop will cover a wide range of topics related to test beams for detector studies in tracking detectors, calorimetry and beyond. It aims at bringing together both experts and newcomers from various fields. There will be a combination of presentations by experienced users, results from recent test beam studies and tutorials to teach the software required to analyze the results.

Metrology and Instrumentation,    Particle Accelerators

This conference will bring together experts in cosmology, particle physics, and fundamental theory to address how and when the universe thermalizes following inflation, and the associated particle physics and dark matter phenomenology. Important topics that will be covered include hidden sector model building in the LHC era, thermalization of the universe following inflation, possibilities of post-inflation cosmic history prior to nucleosynthesis, and associated experimental signatures. The conference aims to attract researchers in different areas to develop new directions in model building and establish new experimental paths for probing early universe cosmology and dark matter phenomenology.

Mathematical Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Western University, Canada & BM Birla Science Centre, India

This is one of the largest astronomy winter schools in the region, and it seeks to promote the development of professional astronomers through this event, as well as broaden the appeal of science to local school students and the general public in the host city by organizing public lectures and discussions.

The organizers seek out up to a few select scientists to be primary lecturers at the school and also participate in content development. A series of secondary lecturers will also be invited, and the diversity of speakers are emphasized. Hands-on sessions will include theory, computation, and data analysis. Students will leave the school having replicated some of the analysis that went into recent discoveries of gravitational waves, interpreted observational data from stellar clusters, and ran a simple computer simulation of star formation. A visit and half-day mini-workshop at the TIFR National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, where we will do some demonstration of scientific ballooning for astronomical observations along with two day exhaustive workshop on computational astrophysics and data mining.

Organizing Committee;     Email: astrowin19@gmail.com

astronomy, science, workshop, India, Canada, US, UK, Europe, Russia, UAE, Iran, Winter, astrophysics, computation, data, observation, cosmic rays, neutrino

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics

The school is primarily addressed to Ph.D. students in Theoretical Nuclear and Hadron Physics. Participation of experimentalists and post-docs is also encouraged. The 2020 edition will be devoted to the strong interaction at finite temperature and density and it will provide a pedagogical introduction to the basic concepts and tools needed for carrying cutting edge research in Hot QCD matter, high energy QCD, Quark-Gluon Plasma probes and properties, ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions (pA, AA), Relativistic hydrodynamics, QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and chemical potential with applications to Neutron Stars physics and multi-messenger astrophysics.

Nuclear Physics,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

The focus of this workshop will be on different aspects of modern theoretical cosmology, the challenges of the theory being consistent with experimental data, and the unavoidable connection of cosmological models with the quantum nature of the vacuum. A basic question in modern cosmology is: why we do not see vacuum fluctuations at cosmological scale? In addition, should the singularities of cosmological theories be treated as necessary ingredients of the classical theory or should them be considered as indicators of an underlying quantum theory, yet to be discovered? We aim to bring along to this workshop all the leading scientists working on those problems and discuss state of the art results on the above, strongly interdependent, areas of fundamental physics. The workshop will hence cover topics related to modified theories of gravity, theories of dark energy and inflation, the description of the universe’s evolution according to these theories and the incipient but compulsory modification of those within the theoretical frameworks of quantum gravity, including loop quantum cosmology, an elegant theory providing up to date a singularity free cosmological evolution. Describing and understanding the quantum vacuum is always a challenge to all these theories, as is also the comprehension of the main manifestation available of the quantum vacuum at nanometric scales, namely the Casimir effect (e.g., when confronted with van der Waals forces).

Email: odintsov@ieec.uab.es

Cosmological models ; Modified gravities ; f(R) theories ; Quantum Gravity ; Quantum vacuum and the Casimir Effect ; Mathematical physics techniques

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Mathematical Physics

Physique-Outremer Organization, University of Antilles and Linear Accelerator Laboratory IN2P3 CNRS Orsay France

This is the 3rd World Summit meeting, following the 2nd one (EDSU2018) organized in Guadeloupe Islands in June 2018 and the 1rst one organized in Galapagos Islands in June 2006. The main goal of this meeting is to discuss progress and future directions related to outstanding issues, both in Cosmology and in Particle Physics. The successes and shortcomings of the Standard Cosmological model as well as the Standard Particle Physics model, will be reviewed through the last astrophysical observations and accelerator experiment results.

Cosmology, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Neutrino, Gravity, Gravitational Waves, Multimessanger astronomy, Primordial Universe, Black Holes, Inflation, Cosmic Microwaves Background, Hubble Constant Tension

The workshop will concern the latest developments in the mathematical study of quantum field theories. The focus will be on the interplay among topics such as higher category theory, as illustrated by the cobordism hypothesis, conformal field theory, tensor categories describing the quantum symmetries, and the relation to topological phases of matter.

Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita)

In the Standard Model, the mass of the Higgs boson is greatly destabilised by quantum corrections, and free parameters of the model need to be extremely fine-tuned in order to arrive at the measured Higgs mass. A fundamental aim of this program is to quantify the extent to which current measurements and searches can constrain models which attempt to restore naturalness by extending the SM. The expected sensitivity from future high precision running at the LHC and of planned non-collider experiments will also be studied. This program deviates from related work in this field by maintaining a sharp focus on the naturalness question and how well a top quark partner can resolve it in different theoretical scenarios using a range of measured observables.

This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, brings together expert mathematicians and physicists to define and collaborate on the forefront problems in string theory and quantum field theory for which resurgence holds promise for significant breakthroughs.

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory,    Nuclear Physics

International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory,    Nuclear Physics

Institute of Physics of Jagiellonian University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, INFN-LNF Frascati and Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS Cracow

MESON is a conference series with over 25 years of history. The Institute of Physics of Jagiellonian University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, INFN-LNF Frascati and Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS Cracow are organizing a biennial workshop to establish closer contacts between experimentalists and theorists involved in the studies of meson production, properties and interaction. The workshop will cover lectures on both experimental and theoretical aspects, in particular the presentation of new results.

Phone: [+48 12 664 4538];     Email: meson@if.uj.edu.pl

hadronic and electromagnetic meson production, meson interaction with mesons, baryons, ground state nuclei as well as hot and dense nuclear matter, structure of hadrons, precision measurements as tests of fundamental symmetries, exotic systems in QCD, novel approaches in theory and experiment

The Seminar is organized by the Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

"Quarks-2020" is the 21st in the series of seminars taking place biennially since 1980 in various historical and cultural places of Russia.

Event Secretariat;     Email: quarks@ms2.inr.ac.ru

physics beyond the Standard Model, neutrino physics, quantum chromodynamics, strong interactions, heavy ion collisions, cosmology and astroparticle physics, gravity and its modifications, aspects of mathematical physics, selected experimental results

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Mathematical Physics

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

This is a biennial conference. Its primary focus is to review the current status of neutrino physics, the impact of neutrino physics on astronomy and cosmology, and the vision for the future development of these fields.

The scientific program will be devoted to the latest experimental and theoretical research and developments in nuclear reactions with exotic nuclei.

Spectroscopy of exotic nuclei, such as drip-line and unbound nuclei- Shell structure and its evolution- Bulk properties and collective excitations - Nuclear astrophysics- Nuclear force- Advances in direct reaction theory- New instrumentation for direct reaction studies

The organizers of the Symposium are: JINR (Dubna), RIKEN (Wako-shi), GSI (Darmstadt), NSCL (Michigan), GANIL (Caen)

Ohio University in Athens

Statistical estimates of nuclear reaction rates are essential ingredients for astrophysical model calculations, e.g. r-process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers, and nuclear applications, e.g. next generation nuclear reactor performance. Rate calculations require experimental or theoretical constraints for nuclear properties such as level densities (temperature), gamma-strength functions, particle optical potentials, and level spin distributions. Recently major advances have been made experimentally constraining the statistical properties of nuclei, particularly off the valley of beta-stability, while systematic studies have identified critical data needs for astrophysics and applications. As such, the time is ripe to “take the temperature” of the field of statistical nuclear physics to share recent advances and promising opportunities.

Nuclear Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

CERN

The 50th edition of the ISMD conference series, bringing together physicists from across particle, nuclear, and astro-physics for talks and discussions on all aspects and consequences of the strong nuclear force and complex final states. ISMD is a "crossroads conference" between several different fields, with all talks in plenary session to encourage interaction. A poster session with rapid-fire "flash talks" and prizes provides an additional venue for research presentation. ; This edition of the meeting is to be held in the historic Atholl Palace Hotel in Scotland's highlands, a short train ride from Edinburgh and Glasgow, just before the world-famous Edinburgh international festivals.

The next Asia-Pacific conference on few-body problems in physics (APFB2020) will be held at KANAZAWA BUNKA HALL, Kanazawa, Japan, from 19 to 23 August 2020. This will be the 8th edition of this conference series which has previously taken place in Tokyo (1999), Shanghai (2002), Thailand (2005), Indonesia (2008), Seoul (2011), Adelaide (2014), and Guilin (2017).

Few-body aspects of nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, Light nuclei, multi-neutron systems, alpha-cluster, neutron/proton-rich nuclei, related topics of nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear astrophysics, etc…, Few-nucleon systems, and their interactions, Few-nucleon systems, nuclear forces and currents including QCD inspired approaches, etc.., Hypernuclear physics including exotic nuclei, Hypernuclei, strange and exotic systems, few-hadron systems and their interactions, etc…, Hadron spectroscopy and structure, Exotic hadrons, quark and gluon structure of hadron, Lattice QCD, protonradius puzzle, etc…, Few-body aspects of atom, molecular systems and cold atoms, Ultracold atoms, Efimov physics, universality, dynamics of atomic and molecular systems, etc…, Interdisciplinary aspects of few-body physics and techniques, Symmetry and symmetry breaking, nuclear data science, nuclear transmutation studies, computational methods, etc…, Related topics for few-body systems

Nuclear Physics,    Atomic and Molecular Physics

Supported by several large research facilities and funding agencies in Europe

The school is intended for PhD students and young post-docs working in areas related to radioactive-ion beams. The production and use of energetic radioactive beams is a rapidly developing new field in nuclear physics, especially in Europe. Pioneering experiments are taking place, dedicated facilities are in successful operation and new facilities are under construction Many workshops and conferences have been devoted to this new field and senior scientists have ample opportunities to be informed on the latest developments. Complementary to that and being an educative effort, the European summer schools on exotic beams have been devised so that Ph.D. students and young post-docs are introduced to this new area and receive fore-front and detailed information.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Particle Accelerators

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics

Many remarkable properties of gauge theories rely on the topology of field configurations and/or ambient spacetime and are connected with quantum anomalies and nonperturbative excitations. These properties, often exact, have many implications in the physics of fundamental interactions, condensed matter systems and statistical mechanics models. They also account for a large part of the investigations in string theory, and combined with supersymmetry have led to exact solutions of low-energy theories and the discovery of duality relations between supersymmetric gauge theories. Meanwhile, a renewed interest in topological aspects has emerged from condensed matter physics, through the study of topological phases of quantum matter. The effective field theories for these systems are not of the usual Landau-Ginzburg-Higgs type, rather, they are described by topological gauge theories. The goal of this GGI activity is to bring together theoreticians of different backgrounds, in condensed matter, high energy and mathematical physics, with the belief that interdisciplinary approaches can lead to substantial progress in many directions.

Anomalies of quantum field theories * Generalized symmetries * Topological aspects of quantum states in condensed matter * (Supersymmetric) dualities in (2+1)-dimensions * Time-reversal symmetry and 4d theta-terms

Geometry and Topology,    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials

The Particle and Nuclei International Conference is a series of triennial conferences which bring together the Particle and Nuclear Physics communities. PANIC consists of plenary talks and a number of parallel sessions. The scientific program addresses a broad range of topics at the interface between particle, nuclear and astrophysics.

Helena Santos;     Phone: [+351-210493628];     Email: helena@lip.pt

Hot and dense matter physics (QGP and heavy ion collisions), Hadron spectroscopy and exotics, Neutrino physics, Dark matter and cosmology, Nuclear and particle astrophysics, Standard model physics at the TeV scale, Energy frontier physics beyond the standard model, Flavor physics - CKM and beyond, Tests of symmetries and conservation laws, Hadrons in medium - hyperons and mesons in nuclear matter, Development of accelerators and detectors, Applications of nuclear particle physics technology.

The event is the ninth in a series of meetings gathering scientists working on astroparticle physics, cosmology, gravitation, nuclear physics, and related fields. As in previous years, the IWARA2020 meeting sessions will consist of invited and contributed talks, poster sessions.

Phone: [+52 1 55 2736 3988];     Email: hess@nucleares.unam.mx

IWARA2020 will cover recent developments in the following topics: New phenomena and new states of matter in the Universe, General relativity, gravitation, cosmology, New directions for general relativity: past, present and future of general relativity, FRW cosmologies, Cosmic microwave background radiation, First stars, hypernovae, and faint supernovae in the early Universe, Quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, Gravity and the unification of fundamental interactions, Supersymmetry and Inflation, String theory, White dwarfs, neutron stars and pulsars, Black hole physics and astrophysics, Gamma-ray emission in the Universe, High energy cosmic rays, Gravitational waves, Dark energy and dark matter, Strange matter and strange stars, Antimatter in the Universe, High-energy cosmic neutrinos, Blazars, Quantum chromodynamics, nuclear and particle physics and new states of matter in the Universe, Heavy ion collisions and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions and in the first instants of the Universe, Strong magnetic fields in the Universe, strong magnetic fields in compact stars and in galaxies, ultra-strong magnetic fields in neutron star mergers, quark stars and magnetars, strong magnetic fields and the cosmic microwave background, Laboratories, observatories, telescopes and other experimental and observational facilities that will define the future directions of astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, nuclear and astroparticle physics as well as the future of physics at the energy frontiers, and topics related to these.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Nuclear Physics

Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) Vienna

There are several open questions in Physics today each of which touches the fields of both Particle Physics and Astroparticle/Cosmology. For example, only 5% of the Universe is described by the Standard Model of particle physics. A far larger contribution comes from the elusive Dark Matter whose existence has been inferred from Astroparticle measurements, and for which a large variety of models have been built by the theory community. Dark Matter is searched for in dedicated direct and indirect detection experiments but also in high-energy collisions at the LHC. Other subjects, such as the baryogenesis is still an open question related both to leptogenesis and CP violation and the matter content of today’s Universe. The knowledge of the neutrino sector has greatly increased over the past decades, but the question of the hierarchy is not yet solved and would need both accelerator/astroparticle and cosmological measurements to be fully understood. The physics of inflation which will be better constrained in the coming years would also need skills from both fields to be fully explored. Is a simple extension of the Standard Model sufficient or do we need more? In many fields the “single experiment” measurements have given way to more global views of our models: electroweak fits, exploring the parameter space of models beyond the Standard Model taking into account measurements and limits on new signatures.

The IPA2020 conference will bring together experimentalists and theorists to discuss the topics mentioned above with an emphasis on exchange between the different but correlated fields.

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics

Topological properties of gauge theories find application in the characterization of novel phases of matter and in establishing nonperturbative phenomena such as the duality relations between quantum field theories in three and four spacetime dimensions. This conference is meant to expose the current status of research in several domains dealing with topology and duality

Anomalies of quantum field theories * Generalized symmetries * Topological aspects of quantum states in condensed matter * (Supersymmetric) dualities in (2+1)-dimensions * Time-reversal symmetry and 4d theta-terms

Geometry and Topology,    Mathematical Physics

Stefan-Meyer-Institute for Subatomic Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Antihydrogen: CPT and gravity, Leptonic atoms: QED and gravity, Kaon-nucleon and kaon-nucleus interaction, Low-energy QCD, Precision experiments with cold neutrons, Hadron physics, Future facilities and instrumentation

Nuclear Physics,    Atomic and Molecular Physics

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics

Anomalies of quantum field theories * Generalized symmetries * Topological aspects of quantum states in condensed matter * (Supersymmetric) dualities in (2+1)-dimensions * Time-reversal symmetry and 4d theta-terms

Geometry and Topology,    Mathematical Physics

RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science

The scientific program of this Symposium will include topics related to spin phenomena in particle and nuclear physics as well as those in related fields. Spin related observables provide unique insights in studying fundamental symmetries, fundamental interactions, particle properties and the structure of hadrons. Similarly, spin related experiments help to advance the understanding of nuclear reaction dynamics and of the structure of hadron-nucleon many body systems. The conference will also cover technical developments and applications in the area of polarized beams, polarized targets and spin optics.

Email: goto@bnl.gov

spin, nuclear, high-energy, nucleon, symmetry, accelerator, application, polarization

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.

NCSR DEMOKRITOS Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics

The aim is to review the current status of experimental and theoretical efforts in compound-nuclear reactions and related areas, discuss new developments and needs for improvement, exchange ideas about how to address these needs and share perspectives on the future of the field.

Nuclear reaction mechanisms (direct, compound, pre-equilibrium, other), Nuclear fission, Statistical Hauser-Feshbach theory, Surrogate methods, Optical model, Level densities and photon strength functions, R-matrix theory and connecting resolved resonances with statistical regime, Nuclear structure for nuclear reactions, Measurements relevant to compound-nuclear reactions (direct and indirect), Nuclear data, Applications in nuclear astrophysics, energy, medical physics etc., Experimental facilities

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics

Anomalies of quantum field theories * Generalized symmetries * (Supersymmetric) dualities in (2+1)-dimensions * Time-reversal symmetry and 4d theta-terms

NIAPP – Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics

This program addresses the questions of how starbursting complexes, gaseous high-redshift clumps, giant molecular clouds, and young massive star clusters are formed, what are their physical properties, and what is their impact on galaxy evolution. Current observations and simulations allow us to directly compare how star formation proceeds at low and high redshift, down to the small spatial scales of star clusters.

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

In the last decade a number of experimental and theoretical discoveries have caused a notable revival of interest in systems with large local Hilbert spaces which realize a variety of intriguing and largely unexplored phenomena such as non-Fermi-liquid behavior, exotic quantum criticality, orbitally selective Mott physics, multipolar/hidden orders and more. While many models have been proposed for each of these phenomena, a single framework to understand the systems with multiple degrees of freedom and, consequently, richer order parameters and richer quasiparticles, is missing.

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

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.