Larkin Award Colloquium - Dr. Simon Caron-Huot
Title: 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.
This year's Larkin Junior Researcher Award will go to Dr. Simon Caron-Huot from McGill University for elucidating the spin structure of scattering amplitudes in conformal field theories.
Anatoly Larkin (1932-2005) is a former faculty member of the Institute. This award is a tribute to his contributions to the field of theoretical physics and its community.
