Despite its undeniable success, there are evidences that the Standard Model cannot be the fundamental theory of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions. The search for a theory beyond the Standard Model is deeply connected to another fundamental question in theoretical physics, namely understanding the structure of quantum gravity. Whatever effective theory might describe particle interactions beyond the observable energy scale must eventually be completed into quantum gravity. Recently, a lot of activity has been devoted to determine criteria which differentiate between effective low-energy field theories that can be consistently coupled to quantum gravity from theories that, even if they seem to be consistent, cannot. In the current jargon, the former are said to be in the `Landscape’ while the latter form the so-called `Swampland’. A number of such criteria, or Swampland Conjectures, have been proposed in the literature and attracted considerable interest in the high energy physics community. The Swampland Conjectures have profound implications for many open issues in physics and cosmology, such as the structure of large field inflation in early-time cosmology, or the mechanism responsible for the observed late-time acceleration of the universe, to name some of the most striking examples. It is therefore extremely important and timely to put such conjectures on firmer grounds.
A concrete and particularly well developed framework to address specific questions of quantum gravity is String Theory, where the Swampland conjectures translate into conjectures regarding the structure of possible string geometries. Recent work has shown that these geometries have an elegant reformulation in terms of a generalized version of Riemannian geometry. The goal of this workshop is to explore the intriguing connections between general properties of quantum gravity and the generalized geometry of string theory. The workshop aims to bring together the swampland community and the generalized geometry community at this unique time in which our understanding of the Swampland is quickly evolving.
Considering the general opinion of the Baryons-21 IAC members, the Baryons-21 LOC has designed an on-line school for the week that Baryons-21 was expected to be held (18-22 October 2021).
The school is designed for experimental and theoretical nuclear and particle physics graduate students and early-career postdocs with the scope of introducing them to the forefront of baryon-related topics.
Finally, we would also like to make you note that we got an agreement with the Few-Body Systems review to publish the lectures material as part I of the special issue Baryons-21, and integrate it with a second part with selected contributions of the conference to be celebrated one year later.
Due to the health emergency related to the Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), this event is by videoconference only.
The video-conference will be performed using Zoom and the connection details will be provided here one week before the beginning of the school.
Neutrino experiments have evolved from single-purpose instruments into large, multi-purpose research facilities with a broad and diverse research program. Similarly, theoretical neutrino physics spans a multitude of topics, from theoretical model building, over oscillation phenomenology, all the way to cosmology and astrophysics.
The goal of this school is to prepare the next generation of scientists for work in this vibrant field. Aimed at PhD students and young postdocs in both experimental and theoretical neutrino physics, it will feature lectures by renowned experts spanning the full breadth of modern neutrino physics. Lectures will be complemented by mini-projects on which the students will work in small teams, with guidance from the lecturers and organizers.
The school will be hosted by CERN, but is planned to run fully in virtual mode. There might be options for lecturers and students to visit CERN during the program, depending on sanitary conditions at the time.
The 2021 Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), and the International Symposium on Room Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (RTSD), will be held from the 16th to 23rd of October 2021.
The 2021 NSS and MIC is the 68th meeting and the RTSD is the 28th one. This conference is a unique one among many other conferences. The basic interests of its participants are on radiation detectors and instrumentations, and spread from the basic physics to their applications in many fields of study. Especially the application of radiation instrumentations to the medical field is the strong point of this conference. Researchers related to medical physics and those who would like to apply their studies on radiation techniques to medical related fields will be given excellent opportunities in this conference.
Newcomers to this field of study will be guided by short course lectures we provide for many topics. People who are associated with this field for a long time can meet their research friends and their colleagues. We can bring a big synergy in science and technologies by listening to the presentations of NSS, MIC and RTSD and each other.
The organizing committee provides plenary talks given by distinguished researchers and specialist workshops. Also, industrial exhibitions by companies with special products will help you choose your experimental equipment.
Originally, the 2021 IEEE NSS-MIC was planned to be held in Yokohama, Japan. However, the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic forces all of us to stay in our own country. The organizing committee has changed the conference style to virtual, following the success of 2020 Boston virtual conference. The participants will feel at home in the coming virtual conference, having on-line meetings and conferences experienced during the year 2020.
On behalf of the entire organizing committee, we warmly welcome you to the 2021 IEEE NSS, MIC and RTSD.
The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) is one of the major international conferences that reviews the field every second year since 1971 and is organised by the High Energy and Particle Physics Divison of the European Physical Society. The latest conferences in this series were held in Ghent, Venice, Vienna, Stockholm, Grenoble, Krakow, Manchester, Lisbon, Aachen
The 2021 European Physical Society conference for high energy physics will follow a purely online format. The organisation of the conference is hosted jointly by Universität Hamburg and by the research center DESY. The conference will feature plenary, review and parallel sessions covering all major areas and developments in high energy and particle physics, astroparticle physics, neutrino physics and related areas.
Since their creation in 1966 by Jean Tran Thanh Van, the Rencontres de Moriond bring together physicists for in-depth discussions in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The 55th Rencontres de Moriond session devoted to QCD AND HIGH ENERGY INTERACTIONS will take place from Saturday, March 27th to Saturday, April 3rd, 2021.
vCHEP2021
Welcome! The CHEP conference series addresses the computing, networking and software issues for the world’s leading data‐intensive science experiments that currently analyse hundreds of petabytes of data using worldwide computing resources.
vCHEP 2021 will be held as a virtual event between Monday-Friday 17th-21st May 2021.
The International Workshops on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos have been organized regularly for the past 40 years at venues in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin and North America.
The 28th edition (WIN 2021) will take place virtually, June 7-12, 2021.
The goal of these Workshops is to offer the physics community a significant opportunity to assess the status of major topics within the field and initiate collaborative efforts to address current challenges. The Workshops attract leading experimentalists and theorists, from all over the world, allowing them to exchange ideas and to develop new strategies. In many cases the efforts initiated at these Workshops result in completed projects that are published in international journals. These projects have sometimes proven to be major breakthroughs such as the MSW effect, which was first discussed at the WIN85 meeting in Finland.
As customary in this workshop series, the program will be structured to allow ample time for formal and informal discussions in the four working groups:
- Neutrino Physics
- Electroweak Interactions
- Flavor and Precision Physics
- Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
For more, visit the WIN 2021 indico page.
The 10th International Workshop on CHARM Physics will finally take place from May the 31st to June the 4th, 2021. Sadly, in-person conference will not be possible. It will be online via UNAM’s Zoom.
The purpose of the CHARM 2020 Workshop is to bring together particle and nuclear physicists working in the field related to physics of the charm quark to discuss recent results in this area, including the impact on and from theory as well as projections for results to be expected from upcoming experimental facilities.
Scientific Program
This year’s conference will cover the following topics:
Charm facilities – Status and future
Charmed meson and baryon spectroscopy
Exotics
Production of charm and charmonia
Hidden and open charm in media
Light hadronic spectroscopy from decays of charm and charmonia
Leptonic, semileptonic, radiative and rare charm decays (including new physics scenarios for charm decays)
D oscillations and CP violation
Tau lepton physics
HFLAV & PDG
