2nd Symmetry Webinar
Solving Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Field Theory provides an extraordinarily successful description of natural phenomena, working from the largest to the smallest scales. Its applications range from fundamental physics to condensed matter and reach out to health sciences, including the highly topical subject of the dynamics of epidemics. Such a broad range of applications calls for different, highly specialized approaches. This variety may obscure the substantial unity of the field, which, however, must be nurtured and recognized to preserve our capability to identify new avenues of research and to further expand the attendant methodologies. We will present two unconventional approaches.
The first speaker, Francesco Sannino, will provide a comprehensive overview of Quantum Field Theory. The title of his talk is self-explanatory and is called Solving Quantum Field Theory: From Gravity to Pandemics. He will deduce several conjectures and conditions on the type of extensions allowed for the Standard Model and suggests that the same physics underlying the fundamental forces of the universe can be used to understand the spread of infectious disease.
Gravity is commonly viewed as very different from other interactions. There are objective reasons for this as well as historical ones, and different views are possible. The second speaker, Roberto Percacci, will present a somewhat unconventional view of gravity as a spontaneously broken gauge theory, that has features of both strong and electroweak interactions below the respective characteristic scales. The emphasis will be on the use of Quantum Field Theory, which is very well established at low energies but may work also in the UV limit.
Date: 4 May 2022
Time: 3:00 pm CEST | 9:00 am EDT | 9:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 882 2584 3746
Webinar Secretariat: symmetry.webinar@mdpi.com