Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2012
Volume 57, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, March 31–April 3 2012; Atlanta, Georgia
Session W2: DPF Prize and Award Session |
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Sponsoring Units: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Regency Ballroom V |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
W2.00001: W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics Lecture: The making of GLAST: Being creative with experimental particle physics Invited Speaker: William Atwood The extension of astrophysical observations to gamma-ray energies requires the utilization of detectors invented and developed for the pursuit of High Energy Particle Physics. GLAST is the result of a close collaboration between the astrophysics and the HEP communities. The exceedingly small signal-to-noise (cosmic rays) ratio coupled with the need for the best angular resolution possible presented a host of problems. How these were successfully met and the resulting instrument and its science are reviewed. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:21AM - 11:39AM |
W2.00002: Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics Lecture: Calculating the number of degrees of freedom in supersymmetric quantum field theories in three dimensions Invited Speaker: Daniel Jafferis I will give an overview of supersymmetric quantum field theories in three spacetime dimensions, from the construction of Chern-Simons-matter theories to their relations with string/M-theory and the gauge/gravity correspondence. I will show how the sphere partition function of such theories with 4 supercharges can be computed exactly, and how it leads to an exact determination of the dimensions of all chiral operators in the IR superconformal field theory. Further evidence will be provided that this quantity is a good measure of the number of degrees of freedom in three dimensions, even for non-supersymmetric quantum field theories. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:39AM - 11:57AM |
W2.00003: LeRoy Apker Award Lecture: Connecting the Holographic and Wilsonian Renormalization Groups Invited Speaker: Djordje Radicevic Inspired by the AdS/CFT duality, we develop an explicit formal correspondence between the planar limit of a $d$-dimensional global gauge theory and a classical field theory in a $(d + 1)$-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The key ingredient is the identification of scalar fields in the AdS with generalized Hubbard-Stratonovich transforms of single-trace couplings of the QFT. Guided by this idea, we show that the Wilsonian renormalization group flow of these transformed couplings can match the holographic (Hamilton-Jacobi) flow of bulk fields along the radial direction in AdS. This result leads to an outline of an AdS/CFT dictionary that does not rely on string theory. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:57AM - 12:15PM |
W2.00004: Tanaka Dissertation Award Lecture Invited Speaker: Georgia Karagiorgi |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:15PM - 12:33PM |
W2.00005: J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award Lecture Invited Speaker: Andre Lessa . [Preview Abstract] |
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