Late Announcement

["Rotondo, Mary Ann" <mary_rotondo brown edu>]

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
2:30 p.m. Barus & Holley Building
Brown University
Department of Physics
"Jumpstarting gluon amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills"
Simon Carpm-Huot (IAS Princeton)

Abstract:  I will discuss recent progress in understanding loop-level scattering amplitudes in the planar limit of N=4 SYM.
The approach uses the so-called integrability of the theory to derive exact differential equations obeyed by the amplitudes, which allows them to be computed recursively in terms of lower-loop amplitudes.  In the talk I will present the equations, illustrating how they are solved in practice, and I will discuss the evidence supporting these equations, concluding with prospects for the future.



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Mary Ann Rotondo
Administrative Coordinator/Conference Coordinator
Physics Department
Brown University
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