Speaker: Slava Rychkov (CERN) Title: Introduction to the conformal bootstrap Abstract: Conformal bootstrap program aims to describe RG fixed points via conformal field theory techniques. I will explain the rules of the game of this method, and the resulting well-defined mathematical equations, which can be analyzed analytically or solved on a computer. The latter approach has yielded surprisingly precise information about the critical 3d Ising model, as I will review.