Talks (non-conference)

Double parton scattering is a mechanism in hadron-hadron collisions wheretwo pairs of partons take part in a hard scattering. The initial state isdescribed by double parton distributions, which describe the correlated spectrumof two partons inside a hadron. [...]

Thanks to its close connection to many unsolved problems of Particle Physics, the 125-GeV Higgs boson constitutes a crucial probe of Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) Physics, via precision studies of its properties. Among these properties, the trilinear Higgs coupling provides a unique opportunity to access the structure of the Higgs sector, investigate the nature of the electroweak phase transition of the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, and search for indirect signs of BSM Physics. [...]

Parton showers are indispensable tools for realistic predictions of events with strongly interacting partons. At the heart of every parton shower lies a splitting kernel and in this talk, we want to discuss how they work and where they come from. [...]

Throughout the century that has passed since Ernst Ising submitted his PhD thesis in 1924, the Ising (-Lenz) model has provided an incredibly fruitful challenge that gave rise to entirely new branches of physics and mathematics. In this colloquium I will focus on the conformal bootstrap program which was designed by Polyakov in 1974 as a mathematical method to access non-perturbative aspects of critical systems/fixed points of the renormalization groups. [...]