KITP Teachers' Conference: Teachers' Conference: This is Particle Theory

KITP Teachers' Conference:
This is Particle Theory
Feb 8, 2025
Coordinator: Flip Tanedo

Time	Speaker	Title
	Morning Session, Chair: Rachel Houtz (U Florida)
9:00a	Lars Bildsten (KITP) Maggie Sherriffs (KITP)	Intro to KITP[Video]
9:15a	Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)	Welcome to "This is Particle Theory"[Slides][Video]
9:30a	Grant Remmen (New York U., CCPP)	QFT is the Language of Theoretical Physics[Video][CC]
11:00a	Nick Rodd (UC Berkeley, LBNL)	Phenomenology is the search for the universe's building blocks[Slides][Video][CC]
12:00p	James Dent (Sam Houston State)	Mathematics is the actual language of theoretical physics[Slides][Video][CC]
	Afternoon Session, Chair: Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)
2:00p	Kara Farnsworth (Geneva U., Dept. Theor. Phys.)	What is Conformal Field Theory (CFT)?[Slides][Video][CC]
3:00p	Shane Wood (U. Notre Dame) Ken Cecire (U. Notre Dame)	Introduction to Quark Net[Slides][Video][CC]
3:45p	Rachel Rosen (Carnegie Mellon U.)	Quantum Gravity is the intersection of particle physics with General Relativity[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45p	Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)	Conclusion[Video][CC]