About some future directions in fundamental physics (organised by a group of former students of RB)

Saturday 9 Nov 2024, 08:00 → 20:00 Europe/Rome

Sala Stemmi (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Roberto Contino (Sapienza U.), Paolo Creminelli (ICTP), Gian Giudice (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Riccardo Rattazzi (EPFL), Slava Rychkov (IHES), Enrico Trincherini (SNS)

1 Microcausality without Lorentz invariance

Speaker: Alberto Nicolis (Columbia U.)

Nicolis.pdf

2 Hints of new physics from the topological structure of the vacuum of the Standard Model and GR

Speaker: Gia Dvali (Munich U., ASC and Munich, Max Planck Inst.)

11:00 Coffee Break

3 Goldstones, vectors and positivity

Speaker: Alessandro Vichi (Pisa U. and INFN)

AVichi.pdf

4 The Strange Case of Continuous-Spin Particles

Speaker: Brando Bellazzini (IPhT, Saclay)

Bellazzini.pdf

13:00 Lunch

5 Tetraquarks: Successes & Mysteries

Speaker: Luciano Maiani (Rome U. & INFN & CERN)

Maiani.pdf

6 From Higgless models to Transformers: Breaking the cut-offs in Physics and Machine Learning

Speaker: Riccardo Torre (INFN, Genoa)

Torre.pdf

7 Axions beyond the QCD axion

Speaker: Stefania Gori (UC, Santa Cruz (main))

Gori.pdf

16:45 Coffee Break

8 Positivity bounds on EM properties of media

Speaker: Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)

Creminelli.pdf