California Amplitudes Meeting 2016

QMAP, UC Davis, June 7-10, 2016

The meeting will be held on the 4th floor of the Department of Physics in the seminar room. The focus is on recent topic in scattering amplitudes, in particular mathematical aspects of positive Grassmannian and Amplituhedron, non-planar on-shell diagrams, ratio functions in N=4 SYM, symbols and the basis of hexagon functions, CHY formula, BCJ relations for effective field theories.

Schedule

  Tuesday, June 7 Wednesday, June 8 Thursday, June 9 Friday, June 10
9:30 - 11:30  

Symbols, Regge kinematics
(Andrew, Georgios, Falko)

 10am On-shell diagrams
(Jake, Daniele, Sebastian)		 Free
discussion
    Lunch Lunch 1:00 QMAP lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Welcome 2pm
Free discussion		 CHY, BCJ and EFTs
(Mads, Jake, Chia-Hsien)		 Amplituhedron
(Lauren, Daniele, Jara)		  
  Break Break Break  
3:00 - 4:00 Hexagon bootstrap
(Lance)		 UV properties of gravity
(Zvi)		 3:10 String seminar
Sebastian
 
4:00 - 4:30 Break Break Break  
4:30 - 5:30 Free discussion Gravity
(Zvi, James, Julio, Jara)		 Free discussion  
5:45     Conference Dinner  

The schedule is very flexible and it might change on the short notice. There will be thematic sessions with one (or more) introductory talks also for more general audience.

  • Tuesday, June 7, 3:30pm: Lance Dixon on Hexagon bootstrap.
  • Wednesday, June 8, 3:00pm: Zvi Bern on UV properties of gravity.

Also, Sebastian Franco will give a string seminar on Thursday at 3:10pm. The conference dinner will be on Thursday at 5:45pm at Seasons on the intersection of 1st and F streets.

List of participants:

  1. Zvi Bern (UCLA)
  2. Jacob Bourjaily (NBI)
  3. Lance Dixon (SLAC)
  4. Falko Dulat (SLAC)
  5. Sebastian Franco (CUNY)
  6. Daniele Galloni (INFN Turin)
  7. Steven Karp (UC Berkeley)
  8. Julio Parra Martinez (UCLA)
  9. Andrew McLeod (SLAC)
  10. Georgios Papathanasiou (SLAC)
  11. Arnab Rudra (UC Davis)
  12. Chia-Hsien Shen (Caltech)
  13. Mads Sogaard (SLAC)
  14. James Stankowicz (UCLA)
  15. Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis) -- organizer
  16. Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley)
  17. Yan Zhang (UC Berkeley)