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KITP Program: What is Particle Theory?
(Jan 6 - Apr 11, 2025)
Coordinators: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Nathaniel Craig, Lance Dixon, and Aida El-Khadra
Scientific Advisors: Masha Baryakhtar, Roni Harnik, Matthew McCullough, Eva Silverstein, and Jesse Thaler

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Time Speaker Title
1/06, 1:30pm Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Lance Dixon
(SLAC)
Anna Hasenfratz
(CU Boulder)
Welcome, Introductions, and Three Open Questions[Video][CC]
1/07, 10:30am Jesse Thaler
MIT
What is Particle Theory? (Machine Learning Edition)[Slides][Video][CC]
1/08, 10:30am Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Lance Dixon
(SLAC)
Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Nima Arkani-Hamed
(IAS)
Informal Discussion
1/08, 1:30pm Riccardo Penco
CMU
Schwinger-Keldysh Effective Field Theories[Embargoed]
1/08, 2:15pm Csaba Csaki
Cornell
Lessons from the Seiberg-Witten axion[Slides][Video][CC]
1/09, 10:30am Linda Xu
SLAC
Checking in on Thermal Electroweak Dark Matter[Video][CC]
1/09, 11:15am Hannah Banks
Cambridge
Searching for Ultra-Light Dark Matter with atomic and nuclear clocks and interferometers[Video][CC]
1/10, 10:30am Josh Ruderman
NYU
The Joy of Dark Matter[Video][CC]
1/10, 1:30pm Josh Ruderman
NYU
The Joy of Dark Matter[Video][CC]
1/13, 1:30pm Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Lance Dixon
(SLAC)
Brando Bellazzini
(IPHT)
Flip Tanedo
(UCR)
Welcome, Introductions, and Three Open Questions[Slides]
1/14, 10:30am Ben Safdi
UC Berkeley
What is axion theory?[Video][CC]
1/15, 10:30am Lance Dixon
(SLAC)
Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Informal discussion
1/15, 1:30pm Tony Gherghetta
U. Minnesota
New Perspectives on the QCD Axion[Video][CC]
1/15, 2:15pm Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
UNH
The devil is in the (axion) details[Video][CC]
1/16, 10:30am Piotr Tourkine
Annecy, LAPTH
The S-matrix bootstrap with neural optimizers[Video]
1/16, 11:15am Riccardo Gonzo
U. Edinburgh
Classical bound observables from the S-matrix formalism[Slides][Video]
1/17, 10:30am Anson Hook
UMD
The Joy of Axion Theory[Video][CC]
1/17, 1:30pm Anson Hook
UMD
The Joy of Axion Theory[Video]
1/21, 10:30am Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Andrew McLeod
(U. Edinburgh)
John Terning
(UCD)
Welcome, Introductions, and Three Open Questions
1/22, 10:30am Tim Tait
UCI
Casting a Wide Net for Dark Matter[Video][CC]
1/22, 1:30pm Eric Laenen
Nikhef
Soft power corrections for collider physics[Video]
1/22, 2:15pm Alex Pomarol
UAB
Bootstrapping theories of Goldstones and gravity[Video]
1/23, 10:30am Herschel Chawdhry
FSU
Scattering amplitude calculations via p-adic techniques[Video]
1/23, 11:15am Julie Pages
UCSD
What is the EFT basis?[Video]
1/24, 10:30am Zohreh Davoudi
UMD
The Joy of Quantum Computation for QCD[Video][CC]
1/24, 1:30pm Zohreh Davoudi
UMD
The Joy of Quantum Computation for QCD[Video]
1/27, 1:30pm Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Dave Sutherland
(Glasgow)
Welcome, Introductions, and Two Open Questions
1/28, 10:30am Thomas Gehrmann
Zurich
Precision QCD Predictions for High Energy Collider Observables[Slides][Video][CC]
1/29, 1:30pm Graham Kribs
Univ. of Oregon
Dark Matter from Strongly-Coupled Theories[Slides][Video][CC]
1/29, 2:15pm Sophie Renner
Glasgow Univ.
Closing precision loopholes for BSM physics[Video][CC]
1/30, 10:30am Ryan Plestid
Caltech
Low-energy particle physics: CKM unitarity & EFTs[Video][CC]
1/30, 11:15am Pouya Asadi
Oregon
On Elusiveness of Dark Confinement[Video][CC]
1/31, 10:30am Henrik Johansson
Uppsala
Joy of the Double Copy[Video][CC]
1/31, 1:30pm Henrik Johansson
Uppsala
Joy of the Double Copy[Video]
2/03, 1:30pm Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Welcome & Introductions
2/03, 2:00pm Spencer Gessner
SLAC
The 10 TeV Wakefield Collider Design Study[Video][CC]
2/04, 10:30am Simon Catterall
Syracuse
Sneaking up on lattice chiral fermions[Slides][Video][CC]
2/05, 1:30pm Martin Hoferichter
Bern U
S-matrix methods in hadronic physics: pi pi scattering and the electromagnetic form factor of the pion[Slides][Video][CC]
2/05, 2:15pm Nicholas Rodd
LBNL
A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter[Video][CC]
2/06, 10:30am Giulia Isabella
UCLA
Black hole Love numbers and the Born regime of gravitational scattering[Video][CC]
2/06, 11:15am Rashmish Mishra
Harvard
Supercooling in the Early Universe[Video][CC]
2/07, 1:30pm Shruti Paranjape
Brown
Double Copies, Pions and EFTs[Slides][Video][CC]
2/10, 12:15pm Rachel Rosen
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Constraining Theories of Particles and Gravity[Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
2/10, 1:30pm Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Tao Han
(Pittsburgh)
Markus Luty
(UC Davis)
Welcome, Introductions, and Two Open Questions
2/11, 10:30am Kara Farnsworth
U. Geneva
What is Hamiltonian Truncation?[Video][CC]
2/11, 11:15am Grant Remmen
NYU
Positively Identifying HEFT or SMEFT[Video][CC]
2/12, 1:30pm Donal O'Connell
Edinburgh
Amplitudes and Gravitational Waveforms[Video]
2/13, 10:30am Rachel Houtz
Florida
Hamiltonian Truncation, Reliably[Slides][Video][CC]
2/13, 11:15am Matt Walters
Heriot-Watt
What is (Nonperturbative) QFT?[Slides][Video][CC]
2/14, 10:30am Francesco Riva
U. Geneva
The Joy of the S-Matrix[Video][CC]
2/14, 1:30pm Francesco Riva
U. Geneva
The Joy of the S-Matrix[Video][CC]
2/18, 10:30am Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Lance Dixon
(SLAC)
Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Welcome & Introductions
2/18, 11:00am David Kosower
IPhT Saclay
Serendipitous Structure in Scattering Amplitudes[Embargoed]
2/19, 1:30pm Gudrun Hiller
TU Dortmund
What is charm theory?[Video][CC]
2/19, 2:15pm Robert Szafron
Brookhaven
EFTs at Future Colliders: Rise of the Power Expansion[Video][CC]
2/20, 10:30am Samuel Abreu
CERN
How to compute Feynman integrals and what to learn from them[Video][CC]
2/20, 11:15am Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo
IPhT Saclay
Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?[Slides]
2/20, 1:00pm Andreas Kronfeld
Fermilab
Factorial growth and power corrections[Video][CC]
2/21, 10:30am Margarita Garcia Perez
IFT UAM-CSIC
Joy of Lattice Gauge Theory[Video][CC]
2/21, 1:30pm Margarita Garcia Perez
IFT UAM-CSIC
Joy of Lattice Gauge Theory[Video][CC]
2/24, 1:30pm Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Lance Dixon
(SLAC)
Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Daniel Litim
(Sussex)
Welcome, Introductions, and Two Open Questions
2/25, 10:30am Marina Marinkovic
ETH
Lattice QCD+QED calculations of hadronic contributions for the muon g-2[Video][CC]
2/26, 1:30pm Kirill Melnikov
Karlsruhe
Power corrections to collider observables[Video][CC]
2/26, 2:15pm Stephen Sharpe
UW
Scattering amplitudes from Lattice QCD[Slides][Video][CC]
2/27, 10:30am Joan Elias Miro
ICTP
Thermodynamics from the S-matrix reloaded, with applications to QCD and the confining Flux Tube[Slides][Video][CC]
2/27, 11:15am Junwu Huang
Perimeter
What is CMB secondary anisotropy?[Video][CC]
2/28, 10:30am Guilherme Pimentel
Pisa
Joy of Cosmological Correlators[Video]
2/28, 1:30pm Guilherme Pimentel
Pisa
Joy of Cosmological Correlators[Video][CC]
3/03, 1:30pm Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
José Barbón
(IFT Madrid)
Rachel Rosen
(CMU)
Welcome, Introductions, and Two Open Questions
3/05, 1:30pm Adam Martin
Notre Dame
Fractionally Charged Particles at the Energy Frontier[Video][CC]
3/05, 2:15pm Fei Teng
Fudan University
Generic spinning binaries from the scattering amplitude perspective[Video][CC]
3/06, 10:30am Pier Monni
CERN
Asymptotic Behaviour of Correlation Functions from Effective Field Theory[Embargoed]
3/06, 11:15am Radu Roiban
PSU
Unique nonplanar integrands and double copy to all loop orders[Video][CC]
3/07, 10:30am Ian Moult
Yale
The Joy of Energy Correlators[Video][CC]
3/07, 1:30pm Ian Moult
Yale
The Joy of Energy Correlators[Video][CC]
3/10-3/13 Conference: Lattice and Continuum Approaches to Strongly Coupled QFT
3/17, 12:15pm Nathaniel Craig
UC Santa Barbara
Generalizing the Standard Model
KITP Blackboard Lunch
3/17, 1:30pm Nathaniel Craig
(UCSB)
Lance Dixon
(SLAC)
Aida El-Khadra
(UIUC)
Patrick Draper
(UIUC)
Jaroslav Trnka
(UC Davis)
Welcome, Introductions, and Two Open Questions
3/18, 10:30am Irina Mocioiu
Penn State
What is Neutrino (Astro) Physics Theory?
3/19, 1:30pm Yael Shadmi
Technion
EFTs and the Higgs: the on-shell way
3/19, 2:15pm Yanou Cui
UCR
Gravitational Wave Symphony from (Light) Scalar Fields in the Early Universe
3/20, 10:30am Zvi Bern
UCLA
Supergravity at high loop orders
3/20, 11:15am Ira Rothstein
CMU
Progress in Forward Scattering in Classical and Quantum Gravity
3/21, 1:30pm Carolina Figueiredo
Princeton
The Joy of Surfaceology
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