This 4-day on-site workshop aims to bring together experts working on quantum field theory applied to both Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems, to open new directions in the understanding of formal aspects of quantum field theory, particularly nonperturbative effects and non-Hermitian extension of its Hermitian framework, and to explore interconnections and implications for beyond the Standard Model physics. We will in particular discuss the following four general topics:
- Perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of QFT
- PT-symmetric QM and QFT
- Phase transitions/False vacuum decay/Quantum tunneling
- Cosmology
There are no registration fees. There will be a (continental) breakfast, a lunch, and two coffee breaks provided each day without charge. Due to limited space, a maximum of 40 participants will be allowed. Participants (including non-invited speakers) will be determined upon selection when necessary.
The speakers will be required to upload their slides of their talk in PDF form to this Indico page.
Invited speakers:
Jean Alexandre (King's College London): Finite-volume effects in QFT and preventing singularities in gravity
Carl Bender (Washington University in St Louis): Complex phases in quantum mechanics
Massimo Blasone (University of Salerno & INFN)
Daniele Dorigoni (Durham University)
Gerald V. Dunne (University of Connecticut): Resurgence and Non-perturbative Physics
Manuel Reichert (Sussex University): Towards the Asymptotically Safe Landscape
Andreas Fring (City, University of London)
Björn Garbrecht (Technical University of Munich)
Oliver Gould (University of Nottingham)
Ruth Gregory (King's College London)
Syo Kamata (University of Tokyo): Exact WKB analysis for PT-symmetric quantum mechanics: Study of the Ai-Bender-Sarkar conjecture
Edward W. Kolb (University of Chicago): QFT, higher-spins, and particle production in the early universe
Azadeh Malek-Nejad (King's College London): Gauge fields in the early Universe and their remnants in the Sky
Nikolaos E. Mavromatos (National Technical University of Athens, King's College London): Complex Metastable condensates in Chern-Simons Quantum Gravity
Peter Millington (University of Manchester)
Tim R. Morris (University of Southampton): Ultraviolet finite resummation of perturbative quantum gravity
Ian Moss (University of Newcastle): Nucleation seeds and vacuum bubbles
Michael Ogilvie (Washington University in St Louis): High-density QCD: a paradigm for PT symmetry in field theory
Paul Romatschke (University of Colarado Boulder)
Joan Solà Peracaula (University of Barcelona): Running vacuum approach to renormalizing the vacuum energy in cosmological spacetime and the cosmological constant problem
Micheline Soley (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Alex Soto (Newcastle University) Bosonic dark-matter: How to mix Particle Physics, Cosmology and Cold Atoms
Andreas Stergiou (King's College London): Gradient Properties of RG Flows
Anders E. Thomsen (University of Bern)
Tom Rudelius (Durham University): Axions, String Theory, and the Swampland
Francisco Correra Santiago (Universidad de Santiago de Chile）
Graham A. White (Southampton University)
John Ellis (to be confirmed)
Organizers: Wen-Yuan Ai and Sarben Sarkar (chair)