YTF 24

A conference on theoretical physics organised by PhD students, for PhD students | 18-19 December 2024

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YTF is BACK for 2024!

Try guessing our theme - and sign up at https://t.co/YazeuL619W

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Hey everyone! D-3! Hope you're all excited for YTF 😄
The timetable is LIVE!!! Go check out the amazing programme on the Indico Page!!! https://t.co/EVTvR9xHb5

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The YTF 23 indico page is live! (Barbie style) The conference will take place in Durham Dec 14-15th 2023. Head to https://t.co/gD7GXvHepB to sign up.

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New year, new YTF, new logo 👀

Have a go at guessing this year's theme!

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Congratulations to everyone who won, and everyone who presented; you all have something to be proud of!

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We are happy to announce the prizes for this YTF!

Long talks
Winner - Hannah Banks
Runner up - Thomas Harvey

Gong show talk
Winner - Itziar Aldecoa Tamayo
Runner up - Ansh Bhatnagar

Poster
Winner - Claudio Severi and Marion Thomas
Runner up - Richie Dadhley

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“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace!” - Gandalf

And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who attended and organised. We will be back next year - hopefully in person!

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Our final set of talks for YTF 21!

- Constructing The Standard Model from String Theory by Thomas Harvey

- Scheme Dependence in pQCD at the Four Loop Level by Robert Mason

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Next up:

- Type II Calabi-Yau compactifications in general spacetime signature by Maxime Médevielle

- A comparison of spectral reconstruction methods applied to non-zero temperature NRQCD meson correlation functions by Thomas Spriggs

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After a short break, we move on to the final block of talks.

First, we have:

- Unoriented dualities from brane tiling by Salvatore Mancani

- Lattice simulations of early universe first order deconfinement phase transitions by David Mason

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Now we have:

- Improved Constraints on Effective Top Quark Interactions using Edge Convolution Networks by Panagiotis Stylianou

- Indirect detection of long-lived particles via a less-simplified dark Higgs portal by Krzysztof Jodlowski

[Bruno Valeixo Bento @BValeixoBento]

Particularly with respect to the pandemic/lockdowns and doing the PhD during these times😬

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Next up:

- Theoretical Frontiers in Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay by Graham Van Goffrier

- Light inflaton model in a metastable Universe by Abigail Keats

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Next up, we have

- EW Sudakov logarithmic and their implementation in OpenLoops by Lorenzo Mai

- Fuelling the search for light dark matter-electron scattering by Louis Hamaide

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Thank you so much to Prof Ruth Gregory for the wonderful plenary talk!

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

- Prof Ruth Gregory on persevering in research!

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Bonus points for sticking with the theme!

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We are now hearing from our plenary speaker, Professor Ruth Gregory, giving a talk titled "Return of the String"!

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Next we have:

- Searching for dark matter waves with pulsar polarimetry by Jorge Terol Calvo

- Precision calculation in theoretical predictions by Hang Yu

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Up next:

- Energy transport by dark matter scattering in the Sun, by Hannah Banks. This is a 20 minute talk following on from yesterday's 5 minute talk on the same topic.

- Quantum computing approaches for simulating parton showers in high energy collisions by Simon Williams