Frontiers in Field Theory and Phenomenology, JHU/IPMU Workshop Series

19 May 2025, 09:55 → 23 May 2025, 19:00 Asia/Tokyo

Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU)

The "Frontiers in Field Theory and Phenomenology" workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the latest developments in quantum field theory and its applications in high-energy physics and cosmology. It will provide a platform for discussions on both fundamental aspects of field theory and its phenomenological implications in particle physics, gravity, and beyond. Topics covered will include effective field theories, new symmetries, axion physics, and extra dimensions, along with their relevance to current and future experiments. A key objective of the workshop is to foster collaboration between theorists and phenomenologists, encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to open problems in the field. To encourage this there will be a relaxed schedule to the workshop with only three invited speaker talks per day, leaving plenty of time for discussions over coffee, lunch and the IPMU 'tea-time'.

Information for visitors: https://www.ipmu.jp/en/visitors

 

Invited speakers:

 

Alessandro Podo  (IHES)

 

Aurora Ireland (Stanford)

Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute)

Francesco  Serra  (JHU)

Giulia Isabella (UCLA) 

Haruki Watanabe  (U Tokyo)

Ioanna Kourkoulou (U Cambridge) 

Isabel Garcia Garcia (U Washington) 

Loris Del Grosso (JHU)

Marc Riembau  (CERN)

Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez (Imperial) 

Qiuyue Liang (IPMU)

Tim Cohen (CERN)

Yuichiro Nakai (Shanghai Jiaotong)

 

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Organizers

David E Kaplan

Tom Melia

 

This workshop is held as a joint activity with Trans-Scale Quantum Science Institute:

 

https://tsqi.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tsqi/en/

 

Monday 19 May

1 Welcome

welcome.pdf

2 Observable CMB B-Modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions

Speaker: Aurora Ireland

11:00 Coffee Break

3 Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope

Speaker: Elena Pinetti

12:30 Lunch

4 Shadow sectors of gauge theory

Speaker: Francesco Serra

15:00 IPMU Tea Time (3F) and discusson

Tuesday 20 May

5 Relativistic fractions and their dust

Speaker: Qiuyue Liang

11:00 Group Photo

11:05 Coffee

6 Dark Supercooled Phase Transition

Speaker: Yuichiro Nakai

12:30 Lunch

7 Exploring Alternative Cosmologies

Speaker: Loris Del Grosso

15:00 IPMU Tea Time (3F) and discussion

Wednesday 21 May

8 Towards regularizing chiral gauge theories

Speaker: Ioanna Kourkoulou

11:00 Coffee

9 Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons

Speaker: Isabel Garcia Garcia

12:30 Lunch

10 Causality bounds in cosmology

Speaker: Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez

15:00 IPMU Tea Time (3F) and discussion

Thursday 22 May

11 Frustration-free free fermions

Speaker: Haruki Watanabe

11:00 Coffee

12 Microcausality without Lorentz invariance

Speaker: Alessandro Podo

12:30 Free afternoon

Friday 23 May

13 Energy correlators for spinning sources

Speaker: Marc Riembau

11:00 Coffee

14 Matching Love numbers: uncovering the simplest EFT

Speaker: Giulia Isabella

12:30 Lunch

15 What is the Geometry of EFTs?

Speaker: Tim Cohen

15:00 IPMU Tea Time (3F) and discussion