The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effort of high energy theorists from China, India, Japan and Korea to give young researchers in Asia an opportunity to come together and learn about the latest developments in high energy theory, from leading experts on the subject.The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS 2018) will focus on the following topics (lecturers in parentheses)Conformal Bootstrap (Luis Alday (Univ. of Oxford, UK))Cosmology (Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, USA))Scattering Amplitudes (Freddy Cachazo (PITP, Canada))Supersymmetric gauge theories (Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR, India))Bulk reconstruction (Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN,Switzerland))SYK Model (Vladimir Rosenhaus (KITP, USA)) + a special lecture by David Gross (KITP, USA)QFT dynamics in 2+1 dimensions (Nathan Seiberg (IAS, USA))Soft Theorems (Ashoke Sen (HRI, India))As part of the school activities we will also have a Kavli Distinguished Lecture by David Gross (Jan. 8th), ...
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