EUROSTRINGS 2026 - COST Action Theory-Challenges General Meeting
Eurostrings is a series of annual conferences gathering researchers from all over Europe and elsewhere, working on string theory, gauge/gravity duality, quantum gravity and quantum field theories, and the relations among them. Previous Eurostrings conferences were held in Stockholm, Southampton, Gijon, Lyon, London, Milano, Leuven, Cambridge.
The COST Action "Fundamental Challenges in Theoretical Physics" aims to develop a comprehensive approach for studying strongly-interacting systems in classical and quantum physics. The Action brings together theoretical and mathematical physicists with expertise in quantum field theory, string theory, gravity, geometry and information theory, establishing the first network of this kind centred around Europe. You can join the action by clicking here.
The conference will feature invited research talks in plenary sessions and contributed talks in parallel sessions.
Early registration deadline: 31 March 2026
Late registration deadline: 19 April 2026
Parallel talk and poster application deadline: 15 March 2026
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Zoltan Bajnok (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
Paweł Caputa (Stockholm University)
Gabriel Francisco Cuomo (SISSA)
Laura Donnay (SISSA)
Sibylle Driezen (ETH Zurich)
Kiril Hristov (Sofia University and INRNE, BAS)
Shota Komatsu (CERN)
Juan Maldacena (IAS)
Dario Martelli (University of Torino)
Christoph Nega (Max Planck Potsdam and TUM)
Konstantinos Roumpedakis (University of Crete)
Andreas Stergiou (King's College London)
Chiara Toldo (ULB)
Max Wiesner (University of Hamburg)
Gabi Zafrir (University of Haifa)
Zahra Zahraee (Perimeter Institute)
Contributed Talks
Alex Arvanitakis (Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb)
Igor Bandos (Ikerbasque and UPV/EHU, Bilbao)
Francesco Bigazzi (INFN, Firenze)
Deniz Bozkurt (DESY)
Tommaso Canneti (University of Turin, INFN Torino)
Federico Capone (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Edoardo Colombo (Kyung Hee University)
Marius de Leeuw (Trinity College Dulbin)
Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala Univeristy)
Elia de Sabbata (King's College London)
Sergey Frolov (Trinity College Dublin)
Elias Furrer (Rutgers University)
Tamás Gombor (Wigner RCP)
David Grabovsky (UC, Santa Barbara)
Falk Hassler (University of Wrocław)
Måns Henningson (University of Gothenburg)
Johan Henriksson (CERN)
Chris Hull (Imperial College London)
Stefanos Robert Kousvos (University of Torino and INFN Torino)
Craig Lawrie (DESY)
Siyul Lee (KU Leuven)
Georgios Linardopoulos (SIMIS)
Niall Macpherson (Oviedo University)
Kevin Nguyen (King's College London)
Antonia Paraskevopoulou (Garching, Max Planck Inst.)
Simon Alexandre Pekar (SISSA)
Aaron Poole (Kyung Hee University)
Andrew Rolph (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels)
Alejandro Ruiperez (Rome University Tor Vergata and INFN Rome2)
Jakob Salzer (ULB)
Torben Skrzypek (DESY Hamburg)
Dimitrios Toulikas (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Diego Trancanelli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and INFN Bologna)
Ioannis Tsiares (IPhT, Saclay and LPENS, Paris)
Public Talk
Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States)
Thursday 7 May 2026 at 19:00
Local Organizing Committee
Fotis Farakos (National Technical University of Athens)
Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete)
Ioannis Papadimitriou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Georgios Papathanasiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Anastasios Petkou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Ioannis Rizos (University of Ioannina)
Konstantinos Sfetsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Dimitrios Zoakos (University of Patras)
Advisory Committee
Oren Bergman (Technion)
Agnese Bissi (ICTP and Uppsala University)
Riccardo Borsato (Santiago de Compostella)
Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna)
Martin Cederwall (Chalmers University of Technology)
Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich)
Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College London)
Thomas Grimm (Utrecht University)
Magdalena Larfors (Uppsala University)
Fernando Marchesano (IFT Madrid)
Vasilis Niarchos (University of Crete)
Niels Obers (Niels Bohr Institute)
Boris Pioline (LPTHE Paris)
Elli Pomoni (DESY)
Henning Samtleben (ENS Lyon)
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (University of Oxford)
Alessandro Sfondrini (University of Padova)
Nicolaos Toumbas (University of Cyprus)
Antoine Van Proeyen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Alberto Zaffaroni (Milan Bicocca University)
Konstantin Zarembo (NORDITA)
COST Action Leadership
Alessandro Sfondrini (Action Chair), Piotr Sułkowski (Action Vice-chair), Agnese Bissi, Vasilis Niarchos, Nicolaos Toumbas, Martin Cederwall, Nils Carqueville, Riccardo Borsato
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