Infrared Physics: Asymptotic & BMS symmetry, soft theorems, memory, information paradox and all that
Workshop
Seemingly unrelated topics, such as the asymptotic structure of spacetime, infrared properties of massless particles in quantum field theory, or measurable effects related to gravitational waves, have been developed to some extent independently since the 1960s. Recent progress indicates that these subjects do admit an interesting intersection.The purpose of the present workshop is to give a snapshot of the advances in different communities (general relativity, both mathematical and observational, quantum field theory, string theory), with the hope to increase interactions transcending traditional subdivisions.
NB: Two other workshops on closely related topics are organized by the Solvay Institutes before and after, please see the links below:
“Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics”.
“Holography”.
Invited Speakers
Abhay Ashtekar (Pennsylvania State U., USA)
Tom Banks (NHETC and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers U., USA)
Lydia Bieri (U. of Michigan, USA)
Miguel Campiglia (UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay)
Paolo Di Vecchia (Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden)
Helmut Friedrich (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
David Garfinkle (Oakland U., USA)
César Gómez (IFT, Madrid, Spain)
Lionel Mason (Oxford U., UK)
Prahar Mitra (IAS, Princeton U., USA)
David Nichols (Radboud U. Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Malcolm Perry (Cambridge U., UK)
Massimo Porrati (New York U., USA)
Laurentiu Rodina (Princeton U., USA)
Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research I., India)
Cédric Troessaert (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Christopher White (Queen Mary, U. of London, UK)
Ellis Yuan (IAS, Princeton U., USA)
Organising and Scientific Committee
Glenn Barnich (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Geoffrey Compère (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Claude Duhr (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland &
UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium)
Marc Henneaux (SI & ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
