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SUMMARY:Decoding the &quot\;DNA&quot\; of prediction\, from the smallest t
 o largest scales in nature - John Joseph Carrasco\, Northwestern Universit
 y &amp\; IPhT
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DTEND:20181107T151500Z
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CONTACT:Francesca Chadha-Day
DESCRIPTION:Recent conceptual advances have allowed us to delve further th
 an ever before into the quantum corrections to scattering amplitudes\, per
 haps nature's most perfect microscopic structures. Doing so we have uncove
 red surprisingly powerful relations known as the color-kinematics duality\
 , and associated double-copy structure. Universal to many theories from th
 e entirely formal to the utterly effective\, these structures apply to pro
 cesses from pion scattering to perturbative QCD to classical black hole sc
 attering and to cosmic inflation. I will introduce the field of scattering
  amplitudes as a conceptual laboratory for probing the invariant predictiv
 e content of physical theory. I will discuss how we have made progress on 
 one of the boundary pushing questions driving this progress: the UV behavi
 or of maximal supergravity\, as well as sketch some exciting open roads ah
 ead.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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