A S P E N

CENTER FOR PHYSICS

2015 WINTER CONFERENCE

PROGRESS AND APPLICATION OF MODERN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

February 16-21, 2015

Monday evening reception

Meetings Tuesday morning through Saturday evening

Quantum Field Theory plays a central role in our descriptions of diverse areas of science, including condensed matter, particle physics, string theory, cosmology, and mathematics. While many significant advances have been made in recent years in the formal aspects of QFT and its applications, many open problems and questions remain, whose resolution would impact considerably the way in which we think about strongly interacting systems. The goal of this conference is to cover a wide array of recent advances in quantum field theory, with a focus on its nonperturbative properties. Topics will include:

• Mathematics of non-perturbative quantum field theory;

• Renormalization group flows, entanglement and conformal field theories;

• New methods for strongly coupled systems at finite density;

• Topological phases of matter;

• Quantum field theory for non-Fermi liquids.

Schedule 

List of Invited Speakers