Conferences and Meetings on High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

The Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics will host a 2020 summer school for Ph.D. students in theoretical physics, the fifth of an annual series. The main theme of the school is "Scattering Amplitudes", ranging from recent new formal developments to precision calculations. Topics include lectures on the geometry of scattering amplitudes, on mathematical functions associated to loop amplitudes, on phenomenological applications in jet physics and on applications in perturbative gravity. The aim of the school is thus to provide a concise overview of the most important theory tools to carry out innovative research in the field of scattering amplitudes.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Neutron Scattering

University of Stavanger and the Academy of Science Stavanger

Due to Covid19 the in-person conference has been postponed to August 1st - 6th, 2022.To bridge the gap we welcome everyone to a virtual tribute to QCHS between August 2nd-6th 2021.

Inaugurated in 1994 in Como, Italy, this series of conferences has become an important forum for scientists working on strong interactions, stimulating exchanges among theorists and experimentalists as well as across related fields. The aim of the conference is to bring together people working on strong interactions from different approaches, ranging from lattice QCD to perturbative QCD, from models of the QCD vacuum to QCD phenomenology and experiments, from effective theories to physics beyond the Standard Model.

The scope of the conference also includes the interface between QCD, nuclear physics and astrophysics, and the wider landscape of strongly coupled physics. In particular, the conference will focus on the fruitful interactions and mutual benefits between QCD and the physics of condensed matter and strongly correlated systems.

SSI ; Higgs ; video-conference

Kyoto University, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics

This is an annual workshop on high energy theory held in Kyoto, Japan, which is definitely one of the largest workshops of this field in Japan. The workshop covers various topics in string theory and quantum field theory such as the AdS/CFT correspondence, various dualities in string theories and gauge theories, exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories, entanglement entropy and its holographic description, string cosmology and phenomenology, and nonperturbative methods in quantum field theory. The workshop this year will be in a hybrid format. The talks will be mainly on Zoom, but researchers who are permanent residents of Japan, or who are non-residents but can enter Japan without any additional supporting documentation from Yukawa Institute, and follow the quarantine rules set by the Japanese government (see webpage for detail), can gather physically at the Panasonic Hall in the Yukawa Institute, if they so prefer. (Due to the reduced occupancy limit of the hall, those who wish to do so should indicate it from the registration page, and we might ask you to refrain from coming. )

string theory, quantum field theory,

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

The QCD Master Class 2021 will take place on August 29 - September 11 2021 in Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, a small village in Brittany (west of France) close to the city of Saint-Malo and the world famous Mont Saint-Michel. Five lectures in QCD, of 10 hours each, will be given to 35 young researchers and faculty staff members. The program of the QCD Master Class 2021 consists in lectures on three different topics each week, from Monday to Friday. The week-end in between the two weeks is left free.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory

DPG Sektion Materie und Kosmos (SmuK)

Jedes Jahr veranstaltet die DPG-(Frühjahrs)Tagungen an wechselnden Orten und Universitäten in Deutschland. Mit jährlich über 10.000 Teilnehmenden aus dem In- und Ausland gehören die DPG-(Frühjahrs)Tagungen regelmäßig zu den größten Physikkongressen Europas. Kernanliegen der DPG sind dabei der Wissenstransfer und die Nachwuchsförderung. Die DPG-(Frühjahrs)Tagungen sind deshalb auch eine wichtige Plattform für Studierende, auf der sie erstmals ihre Master- oder Diplomarbeitsthemen vortragen und mit Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern diskutieren können. Die umfassende Aufnahme von Vorträgen des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in das Tagungsprogramm ist ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal der DPG-(Frühjahrs)Tagungen auch im internationalen Maßstab.

Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK) Extraterrestrial Physics (EP) Gravitation and Relativity (GR) Hadronic and Nuclear Physics (HK) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (MP) Short Time Scale and Applied Laser Physics (K) Plasma Physics (P) Environmental Physics (UP) Working Group on Equal Opportunities (AKC) Working Group Young DPG Working Group on Philosophy of Physics (AGPhil)

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

TAUP 2021 is hosted by IFIC, a joint research centre shared by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Valencia (UV), in collaboration with other national institutions involved in astroparticle physics.

The biennial TAUP series covers recent experimental and theoretical developments in astroparticle physics by invited plenary review talks and parallel workshop sessions of invited and contributed presentations. The conference will also include a dedicated poster session.

Email: https://congresos.adeituv.es/TAUP2021/

Cosmology and particle physics, Dark matter and its detection, Neutrino physics and astrophysics, Gravitational waves, High-energy astrophysics and cosmic rays

The conference is hosted by LIP, Laboratory for Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, and FCUL, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

This conference is the 22nd in the series of triennial conferences which bring together the Particle and Nuclear Physics communities. PANIC2021 consists of plenary talks, a number of parallel sessions and a poster session. The scientific programme addresses a broad range of topics at the interface between particle, nuclear and astrophysics. Special emphasis will be devoted to recent discoveries and results.

Nuclear Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

UNAM - Universidade Nacional Autônoma do México

The event is the tenth in a series of meetings gathering scientists working on astroparticle physics, cosmology, gravitation, nuclear physics, and related fields. As in previous years, the IWARA2021 meeting sessions will consist of invited and contributed talks, poster sessions.

Peter Otto Hess, Chair;     Email: hess@nucleares.unam.mx

IWARA 2021 will cover recent developments in the following topics: New phenomena and new states of matter in the Universe; General relativity, gravitation, cosmology; Quantum gravity and quantum cosmology; 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; Quantum chromodynamics, nuclear and particle physics; 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, and topics related.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Nuclear Physics

HEP-experiment ; HEP-phenomenology ; HEP-theory ; Astroparticles ; Cosmology ; Statistics and data analysis

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

The observational evidence for the acceleration of the universe shows that our canonical theories of cosmology and fundamental physics are at least incomplete, and possibly incorrect: new physics is out there, waiting to be discovered. Key cosmological paradigms like dark matter, dark energy, inflation and neutrino masses, all of which require new physics, will leave imprints on a range of astrophysical scales. Thus progress in fundamental physics will increasingly rely on progress in observational astrophysics and cosmology.

Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA) in Santander, Spain

Dark Matter 2021 is a meeting devoted to discussing the latest developments in the field of dark matter from the perspective of both theory and experiment. Presentations will include results from experiments in earth (accelerators, direct detection, gamma rays) and space (cosmic/gamma rays, X-rays), and indirect detection from astrophysical observations. In addition to the experimental discussion the theoretical status will be presented by world experts. Dark Matter 2021 is 'hosted' by the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA) in Santander, Spain. However, due to the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting will take place with a predominantly virtual format.

Email: dm_santander@ifca.unican.es

Dark matter

Multidisciplinary Events in Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Particle Accelerators

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

Nuclear Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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

University of Alcalá

Nuclear Physics,    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory

The conference will be organized by the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovakia, Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, Russia, and the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna.

ETH Zürich - EPF Lausanne - Universität Bern - Université de Genève

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.

Strings, Branes and Holograms

Mathematical Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

The event is organized and supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Catania and Laboratori Nazionali del Sud.

The symposium will address experimental and theoretical investigations of the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter. Such investigations include efforts in nuclear structure, nuclear reactions and heavy-ion collisions, as well as in astrophysical observations of compact stars and associated phenomena (neutron stars and core collapse supernovae, among others). Significant implications of gravitational wave signals, astro-particle physics and neutrino observations will be discussed. Students and postdocs are especially encouraged to participate and contribute to the scientific sessions of the symposium.

Nuclear Equation of State (EoS) and Symmetry Energy in laboratory experiments and in astrophysical observations, Nuclear structure and dynamics, Structure and clustering of nuclear systems and matter under extreme conditions, Physics of compact stars , Isospin dependence of the nuclear interaction , Relevance of gravitational waves and astro-particle experiments on the EoS of nuclear matter , Nucleosynthesis phenomena in isospin asymmetric matter , Supernovae neutrinos and the EoS of the neutrinosphere , Astro-particle experiments , Future investigations at existing and future accelerator facilities , Transport model simulations of HIC , New detector developments

The main goal of the Symposium is to discuss the state of the art of our present knowledge of nuclear processes such as fission and quasifission in the region of the very heavy and superheavy nuclei and to identify possible physics cases to be explored with the two new facilities under development, the Super Heavy Element (SHE) factory in Dubna (Russia) and Selective Production of Exotic Species (SPES) in Legnaro (Italy). These two facilities can play an extremely important and unique role in accessing, with different capabilities, unexplored regions of the nuclear chart, in particular the unknown neutron rich side. This area of research is particularly relevant because is of interest for the nucleosynthesis of the elements heavier that iron (r-process) and for the understanding of the existence and persistence of the shell closures. The latter are the main ingredients for the predicted survival of superheavy elements against fission.

The Symposium is also intended as a platform for intensive and detailed discussions, and for gathering proposals regarding experimental programs during the operation of new facilities.

Fission of very heavy and superheavy elements , Fission modes, fission barriers and half-lives , Fission fragment properties , Fission competition with a-decay , Fusion and quasifission competition , Production of superheavy elements , Fission Studies with Radioactive Ion Beams

Nuclear Physics,    Particle Accelerators

INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS)

Legacy and strategy for Supernova Neutrino detection with detectors located at LNGS

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Metrology and Instrumentation

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.

Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL)

The aim of the workshop is to assist the spokespersons in putting the strongest cases for their proposals forward through a discussion of the physics to be investigated, and to assess the feasibility of the experiments they intend to propose. This includes all experiments planning to use stable beams from the Tandem-ALPI-PIAVE complex for studies involving AGATA in a possible combination with PRISMA and/or ancillary detectors that are compatible with PRISMA. All such proposals will have to be discussed at this workshop before being submitted to the LNL PAC. This is to ascertain feasibility and to avoid overlaps.

Nuclear Physics,    Particle Accelerators

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

Fusion dynamics, Superheavy elements: synthesis methods, structure, and chemistry, Fission and quasi-fission dynamics, Transfer reactions and deep-inelastic collisions, Near-barrier collisions with weakly bound and unstable nuclei, Tunneling: deep sub-barrier fusion and spontaneous fission, Nuclear reactions relevant to astrophysics: fusion, fission, and transfer, Accelerators and instrumentation for reactions around the barrier, Theoretical developments in fusion and large amplitude collective motions

Nuclear Physics,    Particle Accelerators

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Understanding how color is confined in QCD, and the binding of quarks into hadrons, is one of the major unresolved challenges in fundamental physics. The central piece in this puzzle is the chromoelectric flux tube, or confining string, which holds quarks together. In recent years, tantalizing new insights into the dynamical properties of confining strings have been obtained using various theoretical tools such as effective string theory, integrability, the modern S-matrix bootstrap, and gauge/gravity duality. Lattice gauge theory supplies important information about the spectrum of flux tube excitations. Finally, the recent experimental discovery of heavy flavor tetraquarks provides a direct observational probe of flux tube junctions. This conference will bring together experts in these different fields to initiate the exchange of ideas and stimulate future cross-disciplinary developments.

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

The Organizing Committee decided to shift the offline “Quarks” seminar to June 5-11, 2022 due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We will keep the same place of the Seminar (Pereslavl, Russia), the same program and spirit.

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

Giant resonances in cold and hot nuclei, Collective and new excitation modes in nuclei, Spin and isospin modes, Clustering and pairing effects in excitations, Studies of the decay of highly excited states, Collective excitations and the nuclear equation of state, Applications in astrophysics, Novel instrumentation and methods.

Nuclear astrophysics, Spectroscopy of exotic nuclei, drip-line and unbound nuclei , Nuclear force. Short-range correlations , Advances in direct reaction theory , New instrumentation for direct reaction studies , Ab-initio methods for structure and reactions , Clustering phenomena probed by nuclear reactions

Nuclear Physics,    Particle Accelerators

Organized by Nuclear Theory Laboratory, INRNE, BAS

University of Stavanger and the Academy of Science Stavanger

Inaugurated in 1994 in Como, Italy, this series of conferences has become an important forum for scientists working on strong interactions, stimulating exchanges among theorists and experimentalists as well as across related fields. The aim of the conference is to bring together people working on strong interactions from different approaches, ranging from lattice QCD to perturbative QCD, from models of the QCD vacuum to QCD phenomenology and experiments, from effective theories to physics beyond the Standard Model.

The scope of the conference also includes the interface between QCD, nuclear physics and astrophysics, and the wider landscape of strongly coupled physics. In particular, the conference will focus on the fruitful interactions and mutual benefits between QCD and the physics of condensed matter and strongly correlated systems.

Austrian Academy of Sciences | STEFAN MEYER INSTITUTE FOR SUBATOMIC PHYSICS

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 with antiprotons, Hadron physics at LHC, Future facilities and instrumentation

The 9th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics will be held in Bonn, Germany on 5-9 September, 2022. This conference follows the series of meetings previously held in Adelaide, Julich, Bloomington, Madrid, Beijing, Palaiseau, Valparaiso, and Tsukuba. Experimentalists and theorists will discuss recent developments in the field of hadron and nuclear physics.