General Overview

YTF will begin on Wednesday 17th December, immediately after this year's Annual Theory Meeting. There will be a series of 15 and 30 minute talks with the final 2 or 5 minutes (respectively) designated for questions. Talks will be collected into sessions with a general theme and will be separated by tea/coffee breaks. YTF will conclude with a buffet lunch at 1pm on Thursday 18th.

There will be a plenary talk at the end of the final sessions on Wednesday. The speaker this year is Gerald Dunne, from the University of Connecticut:

Resurgence and the Physics of Divergence
Perturbation theory is a powerful and general approach to many physics questions, but it typically leads to divergent series. This is actually a good thing, as there is a lot of physical information in this divergence, and there exist mathematical techniques to extract this information. I will illustrate the method of "resurgence", which naturally unifies perturbative and non-perturbative physics, with examples from quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.

The talks on Wednesday will conclude with a "Poster and Pizza" session. Those not presenting are strongly encouraged to bring a poster displaying aspects of their research.

Accomodation

We expect to be able to fund accommodation for the majority of attendees, although priority will be given to speakers if demand exceeds expectations. These rooms will typically be university-owned accommodation for those attending the Annual Theory Meeting. We anticipate that we will be able to provide accommodation for those not attending the ATM, but this is not guaranteed.

Travel

Durham is easily accessible via rail network. For those travelling a large distance, Newcastle airport is around 30 minutes away by rail. For more detailed information on travelling to Durham, a good resource is This is Durham. For any enquiries not covered above, please contact the event organisers.



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Organisers

Please email the organisers at the YTF email address rather than individually.