Speaker: |
Jacob Bourjaily (Princeton) |
Title: |
Quantum Field Theory and the Analytic S-Matrix, Redux |
Date (JST): |
Wed, Jun 01, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00 |
Place: |
Seminar Room A |
Related File: |
456.pdf
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Abstract: |
I will summarize some of the most striking examples of how our understanding of quantum field theory has evolved in recent years, illustrating a deep, underlying simplicity which is completely obfuscated by the familiar formalism of Feynman diagrams. I will describe how analyticity combined with the kinematic simplicity of Penrose's twistor variables leads to a powerful, recursive definition of (planar) scattering amplitudes to all orders of perturbation theory. No special familiarity with the subject should be required. |
Contact: |
Watari, Sudano |
Remarks: |
1.5 hr |