Foundations of Physics @Harvard - Naturalness and Renormalization (March 30, 2021)

Mini-Workshop on Naturalness and Renormalization

Tuesday, March 30, 2021
12:00pm (noon)–4:00pm (East Coast time)

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• This is a free Zoom event (no registration fee)
• The meeting ID and password will be shared with those who register
• Each talk will be 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions
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Questions or comments: Jacob Barandes, firstname_lastname(at)harvard.edu (organizer)

11:45–12:00
Informal introductions

12:00–1:00
“An Argument for All Seasons: Naturalness and the Hierarchy Problem as Flexible Heuristic Tools in High Energy Physics”
Arianna Borrelli – Leuphana University Lüneburg
Video (YouTube)

1:00–2:00
“Emergence, Autonomy, and Naturalness”
Alexander Franklin – King’s College London
Video (YouTube)

2:00–3:00
“Dogmas of Effective Field Theory: Fundamental Parameters, Scheme Dependence, and the Many Faces of the Higgs Naturalness Principle”
Joshua Rosaler – RWTH Aachen University
Video (YouTube)

3:00–4:00
Open discussion
Video (YouTube)

Participants

Emily Adlam, Abdullah Afzal, Holly Andersen, Feraz Azhar, Dave Baker, Jacob Barandes (organizer), Charles Bédard, Federico Benitez, Joseph Berkovitz, Arianna Borrelli (speaker), Clara Bradley, Samuel Buckley-Bonanno, Maura Burke, Jeremy Butterfield, Andrea Carosso, Kade Cicchela, Enrico Cinti, Catalina Curceanu, Maaneli Derakhshani, John Earman, Johannes Fankhauser, Benjamin Feintzeig, Alex Franklin (speaker), James Fraser, David Freeborn, Marian Gilton, Henrique Gomes, Daniel Grimmer, Vesselin Gueorguiev, Guy Hetzroni, Mina Himwich, Josh Hunt, Gregg Jaeger, Mahmoud Jalloh, Ding Jia, Xiaohe Jia, David Kagan, Greg Kestin, Brennan Klein, Aaron Kruk, Klaas Landsman, Lawrence Lee, Zhitong Liu, Barry Loewer, Joanna Luc, Emilia Margoni, Logan McCarty, Kerry McKenzie, Alexander Meehan, Xiangyi Meng, Ryan Miller, Chris Mitsch, Damon Moley, George Musser, Siddharth Muthukrishnan, Wayne Myrvold, Alyssa Ney, Makinde Ogunnaike, Fleur Petit, J. Brian Pitts, Felipe Portales Oliva, Josh Quirke, Michele Reilly, Sebastien Rivat, Katie Robertson, Pascal Rodríguez Warnier, Jerome Romagosa, Davide Romano, Joshua Rosaler (speaker), Hassaan Saleem, Marco Sanchioni, Carlos Gerardo Sanjuan Ciepielewski, Jonathan Schonfeld, Jeremy Steeger, Chrysovalantis Stergiou, Noel Swanson, Nicholas Teh, Antonio Vassallo, Kadri Vihvelin, Niranjana Warrier, Isaac Wilhelm, Al Wilson, Jingyi Wu, Snow Xueyin Zhang, Tian Zhang (further participants TBA)

Mini-Workshop on Naturalness and Renormalization

Tuesday, March 30, 202112:00pm (noon)–4:00pm (East Coast time)

[Registration Form]

11:45–12:00Informal introductions

12:00–1:00“An Argument for All Seasons: Naturalness and the Hierarchy Problem as Flexible Heuristic Tools in High Energy Physics”Arianna Borrelli – Leuphana University LüneburgVideo (YouTube)

1:00–2:00“Emergence, Autonomy, and Naturalness”Alexander Franklin – King’s College LondonVideo (YouTube)

2:00–3:00“Dogmas of Effective Field Theory: Fundamental Parameters, Scheme Dependence, and the Many Faces of the Higgs Naturalness Principle”Joshua Rosaler – RWTH Aachen UniversityVideo (YouTube)