Simplicity III

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Conference Date: 
Monday, September 9, 2019 (All day) to Thursday, September 12, 2019 (All day)
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Scientific Areas: 
Cosmology
Particle Physics
Quantum Gravity

 

This cross-disciplinary workshop gathers theorists who have been working on novel approaches to understanding the structure of the Standard Model and its link to cosmology and gravity. It follows the previous Simplicity I and II workshops at Princeton University (2014) and Fermilab (2016) and will be a small, informal meeting with plenty of room for discussions.

  • Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute
  • Shane Farnsworth, Albert Einstein Institute
  • Job Feldbrugge, Perimeter Institute
  • Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute
  • Lena Funcke, Perimeter Institute
  • Lavinia Heisenberg, ETH Zurich
  • Christopher Hill, Fermilab
  • Stefan Hollands, Leipzig University
  • Kirill Krasnov, University of Nottingham
  • Andras Laszlo, Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • Emil Mottola, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Roberto Percacci, SISSA
  • Gerard 't Hooft, Utrecht University
  • Ivan Todorov, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy
  • Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute
  • Irene Valenzuela, Cornell University
  • Cenke Xu, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

  • Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo
  • James Bardeen, University of Washington
  • Marina Cortes, University of Edinburgh
  • William Donnelly, Perimeter Institute
  • Michal Eckstein, Jagiellonian University
  • Elliott Gesteau, Perimeter Institute
  • Justin Kulp, Perimeter Institute
  • Andrew Liddle, Perimeter Institute
  • Amalia Madden, Perimeter Institute
  • Zhen Pan, Perimeter Institute
  • Krishan Saraswat, Perimeter Institute
  • Laura Sberna, Perimeter Institute
  • Barak Shoshany, Perimeter Institute
  • Yargit Yargic, Perimeter Institute

Monday, September 9, 2019

Time

Event

Location

8:30 – 8:55am

Registration

Reception

8:55 – 9:00am

Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute
Welcome and Opening Remarks

Bob Room

9:00 – 9:45am

Cenke Xu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Interacting Topological Insulator and Possible Connection to Lattice-Gut

Bob Room

9:45 – 10:30am

Andras Laszlo, Wigner Research Center for Physics
On the possible role of nilpotent internal symmetries in unification

Bob Room

10:30 – 11:00am

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

11:00 – 11:45am

Lena Funcke, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Rethinking the origin of neutrino masses: the role of gravity

Bob Room

11:45 – 12:30pm

Irene Valenzuela, Cornell University
Swampland Constraints on Neutrino Masses and Dark Energy

Bob Room

12:30 – 2:00pm

Lunch

Bistro – 2nd Floor

2:00 – 3:30pm

Discussions

Sky Room

3:30 – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

4:00 – 5:30pm

Discussions

Sky Room

 

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Time

Event

Location

9:00 – 9:45am

Ivan Todorov, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy
Exceptional Quantum Algebra for the Standard Model of Particle Physics

Bob Room

9:45 – 10:30am

Kirill Krasnov, University of Nottingham
SO(7,7) Structure of Standard Model Fermions

Bob Room

10:30 – 11:00am

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

11:00 – 11:45am

Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
The Standard Model from A Jordan Algebra

Bob Room

11:45 – 12:30pm

Shane Farnsworth, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute
Particle Theory From Jordan Geometry

Bob Room

12:30 – 2:00pm

Lunch

Bistro – 2nd Floor

2:00 – 3:30pm

Discussions

Sky Room

3:30 – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

4:00 – 5:30pm

Discussions

Sky Room

5:30pm Onwards

Banquet

Bistro – 2nd Floor

 

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Time

Event

Location

9:00 – 9:45am

Christopher Hill, Ohio State University
Where are the next Higgs bosons?

Bob Room

9:45 – 10:30am

Lavinia Heisenberg, ETH Zurich - Institut für Theoretische Physik
Trinity of Gravity

Bob Room

10:30 – 11:00am

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

11:00 – 11:45am

Emil Mottola, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Macroscopic Gravity and the Conformal Anomaly

Bob Room

11:45 – 12:30pm

Roberto Percacci, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (ISAS / SISSA)
Pursuing Simplicity with Asymptotic Safety

Bob Room

12:30 – 2:00pm

Lunch

Bistro – 2nd Floor

2:00 – 3:30pm

Colloquium

Theater

3:30 – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

4:00 – 5:30pm

Discussions

Sky Room

5:30pm Onwards

Star Gazing Event

Offsite

 

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Time

Event

Location

9:00 – 9:45am

Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Generalized geometry: geometry of unification

Bob Room

9:45 – 10:30am

Stefan Hollands, Universität Leipzig
Determinism and quantum theory inside black holes

Bob Room

10:30 – 11:00am

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

11:00 – 11:45am

Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Fun with path integrals I

Bob Room

11:45 – 12:30pm

Job Feldbrugge, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Fun with path integrals II

Bob Room

12:30 – 2:00pm

Lunch

Bistro – 2nd Floor

2:00 – 3:30pm

Discussions

Sky Room

3:30 – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

Bistro – 1st Floor

4:00 – 5:30pm

Discussions

Sky Room

 

 

 

 

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  • Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute
  • Lena Funcke, Perimeter Institute
  • Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute