Conférences - Physique des hautes énergies, des particules et des champs - Canada

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.

Cours et évènements pour étudiants en mathématiques,    Physique mathématique

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.

Physique mathématique,    Physique de la matière condensée et des matériaux

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.

Cours et évènements pour étudiants en mathématiques,    Géométrie et topologie

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.

Cours et évènements pour étudiants en mathématiques,    Mécanique quantique et l'information quantique

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.

Statistique, Théorie des jeux,    Calcul scientifique

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

Physique nucléaire,    Physique des plasmas, fusion nucléaire

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.