News & Events

The seminar takes place on Wednesdays, 14:30, in HS 05.12.

  • Oct. 16, Otto Laback (TU Graz) “On the topological connection of inertial frames of a spacetime manifold”
  • Oct. 23, Iulian Grozav, Felix Halbwedl, Friedrich Viertler “Bound states in the Functional Renormalisation Group”
  • Oct. 30, Sofie Martins (U. of Southern Denmark, Odense) “Composite Higgs from SU(2) gauge theory with two fundamental flavours”
  • Nov. 6, Matthias Diez “On backreaction in the Sauter-Schwinger effect”
  • Nov. 13, Eduardo Ferreira “Hadron Structure and Functional Methods”
  • Nov. 20, Georg Wieland “Lattice Analyses of the SU(2) scalar-fermion-gauge system”
  • Nov. 27, Yannick Dengler "Dark Matter Scattering: 3->2 on the lattice"
  • Dec. 4, Juliana Carrosco (U. Valencia) “Emerging jet probes of strongly interacting dark sectors”
  • Dec. 11, Einan Gardi (U. Edinburgh)
  • Jan. 8, Christian Kohlfürst (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) “Strong-field QED”
  • Jan. 15, Michael Hansen
  • Jan. 22, Joshua Lockyer
  • Jan. 29, Enno Carstensen

The PhD seminar takes place on Wednesdays, 15:00 in HS 05.12.

  • Jan 31: Elizabeth Dobson
    "Constructing Operators on the Lattice"
     
  • Jan 24: Luka Leskovec, University of Ljubljana
    "The finite volume of lattice QCD"
     
  • Jan 17: An Di, University of Uppsala
    "Baryon Form Factors with Dispersion Theory"
     
  • Jan 10: Joshua Lockyer
    "Walking in the Hidden Valley: simulating near-conformal dark sector theories"
     
  • Dec 13: Yannick Dengler
    "Scattering of dark pions in an Sp(4) gauge theory"
     
  • Dec 6: Eduardo Ferreira
    "Bound states on the light front"
     
  • Nov 22: Michael Hansen
    "Correcting Complex Langevin simulations for full QCD"
     
  • Nov 15: Jordan Francois, University of Graz
    "Bundle geometry & covariant phase space methods for diffeomorphisms"
     
  • Nov 8: Heribert Weigert, University of Capetown
    "QCD at high energies: Wilson lines in the CGC and jets"
     
  • Oct 25: Sean Mee
    "Collider phenomenology of strongly interacting dark matter"
     
  • Oct 18: David Dobrigkeit-Chinellato, Stefan Meyer Institute Vienna
    "High-density QCD matter studies: a summary of recent measurements and their implications"
     
  • Oct 11: Michael Mandl
    "Interacting Fermions in Magnetic Fields, at Non-Zero Temperature and Density"

 

"Introduction to the Functional Renormalisation Group"
November 21 - 22, 2024, HS 05.12 
Organizer: Reinhard Alkofer, Lecturers:

  • Jens Braun (TU Darmstadt)
  • Holger Gies (U. Jena)
  • Jan M. Pawlowski (U. Heidelberg)

Please note that the talks on Thursday will be in the style o

 

Nov. 21st

14:00 - 15:30 Jens Braun, 

"The Wetterich equation: Where it comes from and first steps"

- Derivation of the Wetterich equation

- Discussion of the properties of the Wetterich equation

- First application: Solving ordinary integrals with the Wetterich equation

- Wetterich equation and scalar field theory: A first shy glimpse at critical behaviour

 

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee 

 

 

16:00 - 17:30 Holger Gies, 

“Simple examples for functional RG flows”

 

17:30 - 19:00 Jan Pawlowski, 

"Emergent composites & Functional flows at finite T & mu"

 

- Dinner (at Steirer Stub'n, starting appr. 19:30)

 

Nov. 22nd

  9:15- 10:45   Jan Pawlowski, 

“Physics informed RG flows, and the phase structure of QCD"

 

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee 

 

11:15 - 12:45 Jens Braun, 

"From perturbation theory to dense neutron-star matter: Mind the (color-superconducting) gap"

- Perturbation theory and functional RG

- Dense strong-interaction matter and neutron stars

- Ground-state(s) of dense strong-interaction matter

- Equation of state and speed of sound

 

Lunch 12:45 - 14:00

 

 

14:00 - 15:30 Holger Gies, 

"Pathways to high-energy complete quantum field theories"

 

 

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee 

 

 

15:45 - 16:15 Concluding discussion

 

 

 

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"Quantum Field Theory applied to Condensed Matter Systems"
May 27-28 2024, HS 05.12
Organizer: Reinhard Alkofer, Lecturers:

  • Dieter Kölle (U. Tübingen)
  • Lukas Janssen (TU Dresden)
  • Selym Villalba Chavez (U. Düsseldorf)

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“Structure in jets and hadronic final states”

Jan 25-26 2024, HS 05.12
Organizer: Simon Plätzer, Lecturers:

  • Jack Holguin (University of Manchester, UK)
  • Christian Bierlich (Lund University, Sweden)
  • David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Stefan Meyer Institute & OeAW Vienna, Austria)

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“Exotic hadrons”
June 1-2 2023, HS 05.12
Organizer: Gernot Eichmann, Lecturers:

  • Claudia Patrignani (University of Bologna, Italy)
  • Alessandro Pilloni (University of Messina, Italy)
  • Eric Swanson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

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"Quantum Computing"
Jan 26-27 2023, HS 05.12
Organizer: Denes Sexty, Lecturers:

  • János Asbóth (Wigner RCP Budapest, Hungary)
  • Alessio Celi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
  • Stefan Kühn (DESY Zeuthen, Germany)