Conferences and Meetings on High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (MEPhI)

The international conference “Channeling - Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena” is devoted to the common discussion on advances in physics of coherent/incoherent interaction of relativistic and nonrelativistic hadrons and leptons (protons, ions, electrons, muons and related antiparticles) in strong electromagnetic fields of various origins and structures, from solid amorphous and crystalline to laser and plasma based ones. The topics of the Channeling meetings have been extended to include also the interaction of radiations and beams (wide broad electromagnetic radiations, atoms and neutrons) in various structured media as well as meta-materials to be investigated at the channeling physics approach. One of the main application of the physics of beams channeling relates to the future accelerators, storage rings and radiation optics projects, and it is known as charged and neutral beams novel manipulation techniques, i.e. shaping - collimation and deflection, and acceleration. Recent studies have shown the feasibility of the channeling phenomenology application for description of other mechanisms of interaction of both charged and neutral particle beams in solids, plasmas and external electromagnetic fields covering the research areas from crystal and capillary based accelerators, undulators, waveguides, and X-ray/neutron optical elements.

Conference Secretariat;     Phone: [+39 06 9403 2399];     Email: channeling2020@lists.lnf.infn.it

coherent scattering of relativistic charged particles in strong fields; crystal channeling, volume capture and volume reflection of hadron and lepton beams; energetic ion interactions processes (backscattering and channeling of low energy ions, high energy ion channeling); electromagnetic radiation by relativistic charged particles in periodic structures coherent bremsstrahlung, channeling radiation, transition radiation, diffraction radiation, parametric x-ray radiation, Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect, free electron laser, Compton scattering); channeling of radiations in capillary systems (micro- and nano-channeling, micro-channel plates, nanotubes, nano-porous); novel techniques for beams handling and acceleration (plasma wake-fields, cross-laser fields, crystal assisted collimation, plasma-ion channels, capillary channeling); advanced x-ray & neutron optics (capillary/polycapillary optics, compound refractive optics, micro- and nano-focusing, waveguides); applications based on channeling phenomena (beams shaping, positron sources, powerful radiation sources, diagnostic tools, novel x-ray table-top instruments, channeling for advanced electronic materials studies);

Optics and Lasers,    Particle Accelerators

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM-CSIC)

The aim of the workshop is to bring together experts on the topic of Primordial Non-Gaussianities (PNG), with special focus on Large Scale Structure probes in the era of stage-IV experiments. We will also foster discussion about lightcone effects (aka GR effects), observational systematics, the role of upcoming CMB experiments, Gravitational Waves, Multitracers and about the origin of PNG.

LOC/SOC rep;     Email: santiago.avila@uam.es

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

Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences

According to the modern cosmological paradigm, about 2/3 of the energy of the Universe is in the dark form and about 5/6 of the matter is invisible. However, numerous recent attempts to detect independently the dark-matter particles failed, and a number of other problems with the existence of dark energy and dark matter (such as the anomalous friction in the dark-matter halos of galaxies, etc.) become now more and more obvious. All these troubles raise the question if the "dark" substance is merely a result of excessive extrapolations involved in the theoretical analysis? So, it is timely to gather specialists from various branches of astronomy and astrophysics to discuss these issues.

Mathematical aspects of the extrapolations used in cosmology, Arguments for and against dark matter, and revisiting the foundations of physics, Alternative models for dark matter and dark energy, A systematic discord in the value of the Hubble constant derived by different methods, Theoretical possibility and observational evidence for small-scale cosmological effects, Complementary redshifts of non-cosmological nature, Quantum effects on the early universe and their observational imprints at the present time

Indiana University

Tau2020 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: tau2020@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

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

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte

This conference will cover all the topics related to the classical nova phenomenology and related systems, and will include a series of lecture-style talks held by experts in the respective fields anticipating the main conference. The reason for this structure consists in providing to all the attending researcher the right tools and background to follow the multi-disciplinary approach to the phenomenology of nova systems.

Email: nova2020.info@gmail.com

NRNU MEPhI

The 5th International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA-2020) will be held in Moscow, Russia, (from the 5th to the 9th of October). The conference is organized by National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”. The aim of the Conference is to share scientific knowledge, to promote contacts between scientists and to develop new ideas in fundamental research. We will bring together experts and young scientists working in experimental and theoretical areas of nuclear physics, particle physics (including astroparticle physics), and cosmology. Most recent results from the modern experiments in these areas and advanced detector technology development will be presented and discussed.

Organizing Committee;     Email: icppa2020@mephi.ru

particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, astroparticle physics, cosmology, high energy physics

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    Nuclear Physics

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.

Hadronic reactions and structure Rare isotopes Nuclear astrophysics Nuclear reacions and structure Fundamental symmetries and neutrinos Heavy Ion Physics Instrumentation Applications

Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Orsay

As in the previous -and successful!- editions, the conference aims at strengthening the international collaboration between the nuclear structure physicists from France, Europe and other laboratories all around the world. It will allow fruitful discussions on recent experimental and theoretical aspects of nuclear structure related to the manifestation and description of the various shapes and geometrical symmetries of the nucleus as well as other symmetries and symmetry breaking.

Institute of Nuclear Sciences (ICN-UNAM)

The Institute of Nuclear Sciences (ICN-UNAM) and the Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics (MCTP) are pleased to announce the IV Mesoamerican Workshop on Cosmology and Gravitation (IV CosmoGrav). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshop will be online and will take place November 9-10, 2020. On this edition, the workshop will be a short two-day meeting aimed at students in their final bachelor studies, postgraduate students, and researchers already familiar with General Relativity and Cosmology. The main lectures will be complemented with plenaries and seminars. In this fourth edition the invited countries are Malta, United Kingdom and Germany. The main objective of IV-CosmoGrav is to promote discussions centering on the themes of the invited lectures and talks focused on recent developments in areas related to Gravitation and Cosmology. This year topics are: Teleparallel Cosmology, Compact Object, Modified Gravity in the Gravitational Waves Era and Cosmology with eBOSS and DESI. This fourth meeting is designed to bring together experts in different areas of Cosmology and Gravitation in order to complement the specialized education of advanced students and to promote National/Mesoamerican and International collaboration among participants.

Email: celia.escamilla@nucleares.unam.mx

Cosmology, Gravitation

Particle Accelerators,    Nuclear Physics

The meeting is organized jointly by the Department of Physics, University of Bergen and Western Norway University in Bergen.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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