Amplitudes: practical and theoretical developments

6 Feb 2017, 08:00 → 17 Feb 2017, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University)

Scattering amplitudes are a fascinating and rapidly developing subject of current research, both in supersymmetric quantum field theories, as well as for applications to collider physics. At the same time, there are many connections to mathematics. This interplay between the different research communities is very fruitful. The MITP scientific program ``Amplitudes: practical and theoretical developments'' will bring together leading experts at this intersection from the fields of high energy physics, mathematics and string theory, to discuss the newest developments and to tackle currently open problems.

Executive Summary (PDF) Amplitudes1.pdf

Participants (PDF) Indico_Teilnehmer.pdf

Monday 6 February

11:00 → 11:40 Critical L-values from sunrise diagrams with up to 18 loops

Speaker: David Broadhurst

Slides broadhurst.pdf

16:00 → 16:40 Maximal cuts and differential equations for Feynman integrals

Speaker: Lorenzo Tancredi

Tuesday 7 February

11:00 → 11:40 Prescriptive Unitarity: Integration polemics

Speaker: Jacob Bourjaily

14:30 → 15:15 Two-parton scattering in the high-energy limit

Speaker: Leonardo Vernazza

Slides vernazza.pdf

Wednesday 8 February

11:00 → 11:40 The duality of Wilson loop form factors

Speaker: Dmitrii Chicherin

Slides chicherin.pdf

16:00 → 16:45 The sunset in the mirror: a regulator for inqualities in the masses

Speaker: Vanhove / Kerr

17:00 → 17:40 Elliptic generalisations of polylogarithms for sunrise and kite

Speaker: Christian Bogner

Thursday 9 February

11:00 → 11:40 Numerical Unitarity at 2-loop

Speaker: Harald Ita

16:00 → 16:20 Simplifying one-loop amplitudes in superstring theory

Speaker: Dario Consoli

16:30 → 16:50 Discussion on elliptic polylogarithms

Friday 10 February

14:00 → 14:40 A coaction on one-loop graphs

Speaker: Claude Duhr

Monday 13 February

14:00 → 14:40 Overview on perturbative calculations

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov

Tuesday 14 February

11:00 → 11:40 Mass renormalisation and unitarity cuts

Speaker: Simon Badger

19:30 → 22:00 Workshop dinner

Please sign up by Monday 4 pm!

Wednesday 15 February

11:00 → 11:40 Simple Formulas for Einstein-YM Tree Amplitudes

Speaker: Henrik Johansson

Thursday 16 February

11:00 → 11:40 S-matrix singularities and CFT correlation functions

Speaker: Carlos Cardona