A S P E N

CENTER FOR PHYSICS

2015 WINTER CONFERENCE

 

PROGRESS AND APPLICATION OF MODERN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

 

February 16-21, 2015

 

Monday evening reception

Meetings Tuesday morning through Saturday evening

 

Quantum Field Theory plays a central role in our descriptions of diverse areas of science, including condensed matter, particle physics, string theory, cosmology, and mathematics. While many significant advances have been made in recent years in the formal aspects of QFT and its applications, many open problems and questions remain, whose resolution would impact considerably the way in which we think about strongly interacting systems. The goal of this conference is to cover a wide array of recent advances in quantum field theory, with a focus on its nonperturbative properties. Topics will include:

 

Mathematics of non-perturbative quantum field theory;

Renormalization group flows, entanglement and conformal field theories;

New methods for strongly coupled systems at finite density;

Topological phases of matter;

Quantum field theory for non-Fermi liquids.

 

Schedule 



List of Invited Speakers

 

Andrea Allais

Leon Balents

Maissam Barkeshli

Fiona Burnell

Andrey Chubukov

David Simmons-Duffin

Gerald Dunne

Liam Fitzpatrick

Tom Faulker

Jaume Gomis

Tarun Grover

Sergei Gukov

Tom Hartman

Sean Hartnoll

Michael Hermele

Liza Huijse

Shamit Kachru

Jared Kaplan

Ami Katz

Yong Baek Kim

Robert Leigh

Ipsita Mandal

Max Metlitski

Rob Myers

Leonardo Rastelli

Brian Swingle

T. Senthil

Mithat Unsal

Chandra Varma

Cenke Xu

 

(* to be confirmed)

 

Application deadline is October 15, 2014

Please apply here





ORGANIZERS:

Sung-Sik Lee (Perimeter Institute and McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)

John Mcgreevy (University of California, San Diego, California, USA)

Srinivas Raghu (Stanford University, California, USA)

Gonzalo Torroba (Centro Atomico Bariloche and CONICET, Argentina)