The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of Minnesota is proud to announce the recipients of the 2023 Larkin Award in Theoretical Physics
Professor Michael Dine
University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor Dine is being awarded the Larkin Senior Researcher Award for exceptional contributions to physics beyond the standard model including mechanisms for supersymmetry breaking, the invisible axion, as a solution to the strong CP problem, the Affleck-Dine mechanism for baryogenesis and aspects of perturbative string theory.
Professor Simon Caron-Huot
McGill University
Professor Caron-Huot is being awarded the Larkin Junior Researcher Award for elucidating the spin structure of scattering amplitudes in conformal field theories.
Michael Dine
University of California, Santa Cruz
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill University
Did you miss their lectures? Watch recordings of their talks below and check out our YouTube channel for more recordings.
4/18/24: 2023 Anatoly Larkin Junior Award
Professor Caron-Huot from McGill University was awarded the Junior Award for elucidating the spin structure of scattering amplitudes in conformal field theories.
The title of his talk is, "Does Our World Respect Causality?"
Abstract: "Please read these lectures last week," the late Sydney Coleman once joked. Causality is so ingrained in our daily experience that this request seems absurd. This talk will focus on relativistic causality: the notion that signals cannot move faster than light. I will review its central role in modern physics and how it leads to surprising properties like analyticity in spin of various physical observables, gives insight on the dynamics of some strongly interacting systems, and restricts potential modifications to Einstein's gravity.