Nordita is situated in the AlbaNova University Center campus, as are the two theory groups (CoPS and TKM) in the physics department of Stockholm university (SU), and the theoretical physics department of the KTH Royal institute of technology. Also at AlbaNova is the cross-institutional Oskar Klein Centre (OKC). Since these units share the same interests, we have decided to co-organize seminars, conferences and other scientific events in theoretical physics.
Here is a list of the regularly scheduled seminars and meetings in theoretical physics that are organized by one or more of the theory groups at AlbaNova. See the Seminar schedule for a list of seminars held within a month from now.
Theory seminar, with a slant towards string theory and general relativity.
Seminar of the OKC Beyond the Standard Model Working Group.
Nordita seminars are given by members of the local physics community, intended for a general theoretical physics audience. New Nordita seminars are announced irregularly, when there is a speaker. Traditionally the time is on Tuesdays at 11.00-12.00, but this can vary, as does the venue.
Usual time: weekly on Tuesdays at 11.00-12.00, usual place: the Nordita South Building seminar room, 112:028.
This is strongly phenomenology/cosmology-oriented, but occasionally theorists speak. OKC is the Oskar Klein Center, a collaboration between several research groups in physics and astronomy at Stockholm University and KTH.
Usual time: bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 13.15-14.30, usual place: the FA32 seminar room (AlbaNova main building, 3rd floor).
Theoretical biophysics, complex systems and statistical mechanics seminar; sometimes experimental work is presented. Usual time: weekly on Tuesdays 13.30-14.30, usual place: Nordita South Building seminar room, 112:028
This is is a "theory colloquium" (i.e. condensed matter, quantum information, string theory, anything theory), i.e. supposed to not be overly technical.
Usual time: weekly on Wednesdays at 11.00-12.15, usual place: the FA31 or FA32 seminar rooms (AlbaNova main building, 3rd floor).
Seminar of the OKC Cosmology and Gravity Working Group.
Usual time: Wednesdays, 13:30-14:30 in the Nordita East Building seminar room, 132:028. This is an informal discussion of recent papers posted in arXiv:hep-th.
They are being held on Wednesdays, 13:30-14:30 in 122:026. As a rule, all papers submitted by group members to the arXiv are to be presented here. Sometimes there are two talks of 30 minutes instead. This seminar slot is also used for guests and visitors of the group. Several times a year, this slot is also used for joint seminars with the Solar Physics Institute and the group of Göran Scharmer.
Even though the physics departments of KTH and Stockholm University (SU) are located at AlbaNova, the mathematics departments are not (but within walking distance from AlbaNova). The two departments co-organize a mathematics colloquium, under the auspices of the recently formed Stockholm Mathematics Center, SMC.
Usual time: Weekly on Wednesdays at 14:30-15:30, usual place: the Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5 (AlbaNova main building, 4th floor).
Seminar of the OKC Extreme Objects Working Group.
Seminar of the OKC Theory Working Group.
The AlbaNova/Nordita colloquia are intended for students and staff members in all research fields at AlbaNova - physics, astronomy and biotechnology.
Usual time: Thursdays at 15.15-16.15, usual place: the Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5 (AlbaNova main building, 4th floor). Coffee and tea is served at 15.00 outside the auditorium.
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Workshop 10—14 December 2018
Presently under construction, the European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the world's most powerful neutron source. The ESS can provide a unique program of experimental particle physics at the intensity and precision frontiers. Experiments at the ESS can address central open questions in modern physics such as the mechanism of baryogenesis, the strong CP problem, and the nature of dark matter. Sensitivity to particles and processes beyond the Standard Model at mass scales beyond that available at colliders. This workshop explores the potential of the ESS, focusing on the optimization of signatures and experimental search strategies, the development of the phenomenology needed to interpret ESS results, and the complementarity with the collider program. A number of topics are covered, including the implications of precision measurements neutron decay, searches for neutron electric dipole moment and for the baryon number violating (BNV) processes.
Conference 10—14 December 2018
The conventional approaches for treating condensed matter, based on Fermi liquid theory and the associated Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson approach to phase transitions, have been challenged recently, as we see a growing library of states that do not display this behaviorm and also witness discoveries of many materials that exist on the verge of transitions to different types of ordered states. These developments are encapsulated within the new category of condensed matter known as “quantum materials”, which has stimulated a host of new ideas based on unconventional correlated, entangled, and topological orders. Attendant with the developments on theory and modeling we see a rapid rise of new probes of matter, most prominently, MAX IV and ESS that are capable of revealing a new and exciting behavior of quantum matter at the short time scale with high spatial resolution.
Conference 10—14 December 2018
Gauge theory and general relativity are the two modern frameworks that describe the interactions of fundamental spin-1 (gluon) and spin-2 (graviton) particles, respectively. Despite significant historical differences in how these theories were developed, recent results show that these frameworks are intimately connected. The goal of this workshop is to bring together in a collaborative environment world experts on ideas and methods relevant to the double-copy dictionary between gauge and gravity perturbative predictions. Topics expected to be covered by the workshop include: amplitudes in supersymmetric gauge theory and gravity, classical solutions and perturbation theory in gravity, effective potentials and gravitational waves, higher-loop QCD, supergravity UV divergences, gravitational symmetries, string amplitudes, on-shell diagrams and the amplituhedron, twistor strings, polylogarithms, color-kinematics duality and the double copy, and more.