Annual Theory Meeting

Grey College, Durham
16 - 18 December 2004


The Annual Theory Meetings ("Christmas Meetings") started in 1961 and have been held every year since (with the possible exception of two years), previously at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and more recently at Durham. Gordon Moorhouse and David Morgan have written a brief history of the early meetings.


Speakers and Topics

John Ellis (CERN) Can one tell Supersymmetry from (anything else in) a hole in the ground?
Tony Doyle (Glasgow) The GRID: Why, How, When?
Christof Wetterich (Heidelberg) Quintessence - a Fifth Force from Variation of the Fundamental Scale?
Norman Christ (Columbia) Status of Lattice QCD and the New QCDOC Machine
Iain Stewart (MIT) Soft Collinear Effective Theory
Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN) Split Supersymmetry in String Theory
Reidun Twarock (City University London) Mathematical Virology: a Mathematical Physicist's Approach to Open Problems in Virology
Valery Rubakov (INR Moscow) Exotica from Extra Dimensions
Nigel Glover (IPPP) Phenomenology from Twistor Space
Henry Frisch (Chicago) Physics at the Tevatron Collider




Scientific Organising Committee

Steven Abel, Peter Bowcock , Patrick Dorey, Nigel Glover, Simon Ross,
James Stirling, Anne Taormina, Georg Weiglein



Administration

Linda Wilkinson , Emma Worden


General information

The provisional programme for the meeting can be found here

A list of speakers at previous Annual Theory Meetings can be found below

See the photos from the 2003 meeting

Travel to and from Durham. If you intend to come by train, the Railtrack timetable can help you plan your journey

Information about Grey College

A poster for the meeting with a view of the Cathedral from the river bank


Linda Wilkinson@durham.ac.uk




General Information

Accommodation will be in Grey College for the duration of your stay in Durham. All meals will be taken in the Dining Room in Grey: breakfast, buffet lunch and formal dinner. Please inform us of any special dietary requirements.

It is important that you advise us as soon as possible if you wish to arrive earlier or stay later than the days of the meeting or if you need to make any other arrangements.

The meeting commences with a buffet lunch at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday 16th December in Grey College. You will be able to register from 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. and then from 6:15 p.m. onwards. Rooms are to be vacated after breakfast on Saturday 20th December and luggage can be left with reception.

The talks will be held in the Appleby Lecture Theatre in the Geography Department building on the Umiversity's Science Site, close to the Physics Department and a three minute walk from Grey College. The location of Grey College (marked 8), the Geography and Physics buildings (marked 12) and the railway station are shown on the University map.

Durham is easily reached by train from all parts of the country. Should you wish to travel by car and require parking, please advise us as soon as possible as this has to be arranged in advance with the college. Please travel as cheaply as possible, as we will normally refund travel up to a Saver railfare only.

If you require any further information please contact Linda Wilkinson or Emma Durrant at the IPPP.




Annual Theory Meeting Speakers: 1970 - 2003

2003

R Heuer

W Hollik

J Cardy

C Gonzalez-Garcia

M Karliner

H Ooguri

L Verde

G Veneziano

J March-Russell

D Becirevic

2002

G Altarelli

J Barrow

J Dainton

G Dvali

B Gavela

P Goddard

S Shenker

M Strassler

M Turner

A Ukawa

J Womersley

 

 

 

 

2001

N Arkani-Hamed

G Branco

P Dauncey

N Dorey

C Frenk

G 't Hooft

P Lepage

W Marciano

N Smith

D Waldram

D Wark

 

 

 

 

2000

Y Nir

A Chamseddine

M Green

L Randall

J Bahcall

M Veltman

J Binney

H Georgi

W Murray

 

1999

M Luscher

J Flynn

R Dijkgraaf

S Sarkar

J Lykken

C Beichman

M Carena

M Beneke

P Sikivie

 

1998

H Wittig

M Seymour

GG Ross

J Maldacena

J Ellis

A Kusenko

J Silk

P Zerwas

J van Holten

 

1997

M Shaposhnikov

P Weisz

E Copeland

L Williams

C Johnson

T Banks

M Mangano

J Butterworth

H Dreiner

 

1996

H Haber

J Thompson

S Abel

A Connes

J Harvey

Z Kunszt

C Lourenco

C Davies

J Smit

P Steinhardt

1995

RJN Phillips

I Bigi

J Thompson

P Townsend

H Satz

S Yankielowicz

K Ellis

M Teper

M Pennington

B Webber

1994

R Barbieri

J Shigemitsu

FE Close

T Morris

N Seiberg

DJ Miller

J Forshaw

Y Dokshitzer

M Drees

B Gavela

1993

P Aspinwall

B Schutz

M Spiro

D Weingarten

M Ryskin

H Montgomery

P Langacker

A Ashtekar

GG Ross

 

1992

L Hall

A Falk

C Michael

R Jaffe

R Marshall

R Dijkgraaf

J Cardy

G Efstathiou

I Hinchliffe

VN Gribov

1991

N Isgur

W David

C Sachrajda

H Leutwyler

M Strikman

S Giddings

N Mermin

G Gelmini

EWN Glover

GG Ross

1990

A Meuller

J Ralston

G Fogli

S Sarkar

F David

C Peterson

P Arnold

R Kenway

I Aitcheson

 

1989

P Darriulat

G Martinelli

G Veneziano

E Brezin

W Marciano

R Jaffe

M Shaposhnikov

M Veltman

LEP speakers  

1988

JD Jackson

M Pennington

S Hawking

F Dydak

S Donaldson

JB Zuber

AB Zamolodchikov

L Hall

P Weisz

 

1987

H Satz

A Chodos

S Sarkar

M Green

S Shenker

J Gunn

I Aitcheson

O Pene

A Buras

 

1986

K Narain

J Ambjorn

P Ramond

C Michael

A Mueller

RJN Phillips

T Barnes

GG Ross

CH Llewellyn

Smith

 

1985

WJ Stirling

C Jarlskog

RG Roberts

G Horowitz

J Harvey

M Feigenbaum

I Barbour

E Marinari

G t'Hooft

 

1984

C Rubbia

M Atiyah

L Alvarez-Gaume

P Hasenfratz

M Turner

J Ellis

R Peccei

K von Klitzing

M Green

A Salam

1983

P West

T Applequist

C Callan

S Geer

G Altarelli

A De Rujula

D Wallace

G Karl

M Wise

 

1982

IG Halliday

R Marshall

J Bell

E Witten

T Walsh

GG Ross

P Steinhardt

G Baym

F Halzen

 

1981

T Banks

FE Close

T Kibble

S Hawking

A Astbury

G Parisi

P Olesen

S Ferrara

CH Llewellyn

Smith

 

1980

J Badier

RG Roberts

M Creutz

JC Taylor

RJ Tayler

D Perkins

E Eichten

P van Nieuwenhuizen

   

1979

GG Ross

W Scott

R Petronzio

S Orito

M Rees

S Mandelstam

P di Vecchia

N Cabibbo

C Itzyson

 

1978

D Perkins

C Sachrajda

R Devenish

M Veltman

A Leggett

D Gross

D Olive

M Gaillard

A Salam

 

1977

E Corrigan

H Fritzsch

T Quirk

G Parisi

A Shwimmer

G Gibbons

BK Gunderson

J Ellis

H Lipkin

 

1976

K Kohnson

G Karl

H Lynch

W Venus

PV Landshoff

JC Taylor

R Peierls

G Veneziano

CH Llewellyn

Smith

 

1975

A Donnachie

G t'Hooft

JE Augustin

FE Close

W Toner

A Salam

L Maiani

D Sciama

G Veneziano

 

1974

M Jacob

J Ellis

W Czyz

L Lederman

M Gaillard

HM Chan

K Bardacki

G Oades

L Susskind

CH Llewellyn

Smith

1973

G Myatt

P Higgs

R Crewther

D Horn

G Manning

RG Roberts

R Peccei

D Wallace

J Weyers

W Toner

1972

C Rubbia

E Berger

DP Roy

H Harari

D Lyndon-Bell

J Peterson

JC Taylor

D Perkins

P Goddard

CH Llewellyn

Smith

1971

B Diddens

S Mandelstam

S Frautschi

H Satz

J Bell

J Polkinghorne

A Salam

Y Frishman

G Shaw

 

1970

K Gottfried

G Ringland

J Allaby

R Eden

TT Wu

RG Roberts

M Kugler

D Sutherland

H Osborn

AD Martin