During the last 10 years, there has been a lot of work trying to understand the connection between quantum information theory, in particular various measures of quantum entanglement, and space-time geometry and quantum gravity. In this talk I will review some of the basic ideas and insights that have come out of this.

After a brief introduction summarizing experience of Belle and BaBar experiments we discuss the status of the SuperKEKB collider and BelleII detector. Based on results obtained by the experiments of the first generation, expectations of what can be achieved at BelleII in CP-violation studies, hadron spectroscopy, tau-lepton physics, rare decays of charm and beauty, searches for new physics, are presented.

During its first two observing runs, the Advanced LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave  detector network reported the observation of one binary neutron star merger and ten binary black hole mergers. After the network entered its third run in April 2019 with improved sensitivity, weekly candidates
of compact binary mergers are being publicly announced. The ongoing O3 run may hopefully bring out the discovery of yet unobserved sources. In this talk we will present an overview of the past and ongoing efforts and the implications of the recent detections for physics and astronomy.

The extent of the worldwide effort to try to understand what the dark matter consists of is truly impressive. After reviewing what we know about dark matter, I will talk about some important current and future direct, indirect and accelerator dark matter searches.

At the end of 2018, the experiments ATLAS and CMS have successfully terminated the second experimental data taking phase at the LHC (Run 2) at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The large dataset collected, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 140 fb^{-1}, allows for precise measurements of the properties of the discovered Higgs boson as well as for precise measurements of Standard Model processes and parameters. In parallel they have been explored to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.

 

In the present talk an overview on the most important physics results at the LHC is given. In addition, future prospects of the experimental programme at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) are presented, together with the planned upgrade programme of the detectors to cope with the largely increased luminosity and data rate at the HL-LHC.

In this talk, I will quickly review the status of the field of Observational Cosmology, focusing on the recent results coming from large extragalactic surveys and, in particular, the Dark Energy Survey. I will also cover the current tensions within the /\CDM cosmological model, affecting both the Hubble parameter, H_0, and the matter inhomogeneity parameter, \sigma_8. 

 

After a review of the muon g-2, I will present the MUonE proposal for an experiment at CERN which aims at determining the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon g-2 by measuring the differential cross section of the elastic scattering of high-energy muons on atomic electrons.

This will be a theorist's view on the present and short term future of particle physics.

I will review recent progress on asymptotic symmetries in general relativity, soft theorems in quantum field theory and memory effects - three seemingly separate subjects which have recently been shown to be secretly related - and discuss their role in the attempt to find a holographic description for quantum gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes.