Xmas Theoretical Physics Workshop @Athens 2024
from
Wednesday 18 December 2024 (08:45)
to
Friday 20 December 2024 (16:30)
Monday 16 December 2024
Tuesday 17 December 2024
Wednesday 18 December 2024
08:45
Reception
Reception
08:45 - 09:15
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
09:15
Welcome address
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Ioannis Papadimitriou
(
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
)
Welcome address
Ioannis Papadimitriou
(
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
)
09:15 - 09:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
09:30
Ioannis Papadimitriou
Ioannis Papadimitriou
09:30 - 11:00
Probing the Hubble constant and resolving AGN disks with ultrafast photon counters
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Marios Galanis
Probing the Hubble constant and resolving AGN disks with ultrafast photon counters
Marios Galanis
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
10:00
QFT-based methods for classical gravity
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Stavros MOUGIAKAKOS
(
LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon
)
QFT-based methods for classical gravity
Stavros MOUGIAKAKOS
(
LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon
)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
10:30
Reflections on an M-theoretic Emergence Proposal
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Antonia Paraskevopoulou
Reflections on an M-theoretic Emergence Proposal
Antonia Paraskevopoulou
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
11:30
A journey through the non-geometric Landscape and connections to the Swampland
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Houri Christina Tarazi
(
University of Chicago
)
A journey through the non-geometric Landscape and connections to the Swampland
Houri Christina Tarazi
(
University of Chicago
)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Vassilis Spanos
Vassilis Spanos
11:30 - 13:00
12:00
Dark branes for Dark matter and PTA
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Fotios Koutroulis
(
Warsaw University
)
Dark branes for Dark matter and PTA
Fotios Koutroulis
(
Warsaw University
)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
12:30
The boundary entropy function for interface conformal field theories
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Evangelos Afxonidis
The boundary entropy function for interface conformal field theories
Evangelos Afxonidis
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
13:00
Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
14:30
Konstantinos Sfetsos
Konstantinos Sfetsos
14:30 - 17:00
The Geometry of Black Hole Microstructure
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Dimitrios Toulikas
(
IPhT, Universite Paris-Saclay, CEA
)
The Geometry of Black Hole Microstructure
Dimitrios Toulikas
(
IPhT, Universite Paris-Saclay, CEA
)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
15:00
W-symmetries, anomalies and heterotic backgrounds with SU holonomy
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Loukas Grimanellis
(
King's College London
)
W-symmetries, anomalies and heterotic backgrounds with SU holonomy
Loukas Grimanellis
(
King's College London
)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
15:30
On the lack of scale-separated supersymmetric AdS_2 flux vacua
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Nikolaos Liatsos
(
National Technical University of Athens
)
On the lack of scale-separated supersymmetric AdS_2 flux vacua
Nikolaos Liatsos
(
National Technical University of Athens
)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
16:00
Gifts from infinite-dimensional current algebras
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Stathis Vitouladitis
(
University of Amsterdam
)
Gifts from infinite-dimensional current algebras
Stathis Vitouladitis
(
University of Amsterdam
)
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
16:30
An Exceptional Cluster Algebra for Higgs plus Jet Production
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Rigers Aliaj
(
DESY
)
An Exceptional Cluster Algebra for Higgs plus Jet Production
Rigers Aliaj
(
DESY
)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Thursday 19 December 2024
09:30
Konstantinos Sfetsos
Konstantinos Sfetsos
09:30 - 11:00
Scattering amplitudes from holography
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Kostas Skenderis
Scattering amplitudes from holography
Kostas Skenderis
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
10:15
Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise
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Asimina Arvanitaki
(
PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA)
)
Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise
Asimina Arvanitaki
(
PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA)
)
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
11:30
Aspects of gauge-strings duality
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Carlos Nunez
(
Swansea University
)
Aspects of gauge-strings duality
Carlos Nunez
(
Swansea University
)
11:30 - 12:15
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Georgios Papathanasiou
Georgios Papathanasiou
11:30 - 13:00
12:15
A turbulent world
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Alexandros Alexakis
A turbulent world
Alexandros Alexakis
12:15 - 13:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
13:00
Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
14:30
Vassilis Spanos
Vassilis Spanos
14:30 - 16:00
de Sitter vacua, swampland and supergravity
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Fotis Farakos
(
NTUA
)
de Sitter vacua, swampland and supergravity
Fotis Farakos
(
NTUA
)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
15:00
An Inflationary Cosmology from (AdS) Wormholes
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Panos Betzios
(
University of British Columbia
)
An Inflationary Cosmology from (AdS) Wormholes
Panos Betzios
(
University of British Columbia
)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
15:30
Shadow formalism for supersymmetric conformal blocks.
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Boris Runov
Shadow formalism for supersymmetric conformal blocks.
Boris Runov
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Friday 20 December 2024
09:30
Aris Moustakas
Aris Moustakas
09:30 - 11:00
Nearly critical superfluids and holography
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Aristomenis Donos
(
Durham University
)
Nearly critical superfluids and holography
Aristomenis Donos
(
Durham University
)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
10:15
(confining) holographic QFTs on AdS
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Elias Kiritsis
(confining) holographic QFTs on AdS
Elias Kiritsis
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
11:30
Amplitude reduction at two loops
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Costas Papadopoulos
Amplitude reduction at two loops
Costas Papadopoulos
11:30 - 12:15
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Ioannis Papadimitriou
Ioannis Papadimitriou
11:30 - 13:00
12:15
Structure Constants from Integrability
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Alessandro Georgoudis
(
ENS Paris
)
Structure Constants from Integrability
Alessandro Georgoudis
(
ENS Paris
)
12:15 - 13:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
13:00
Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
14:30
Georgios Papathanasiou
Georgios Papathanasiou
14:30 - 16:00
Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: theoretical expectations and challenges
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Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: theoretical expectations and challenges
Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
15:00
Entanglement Entropy of Scalar Fields in de Sitter space
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Dimitrios Katsinis
Entanglement Entropy of Scalar Fields in de Sitter space
Dimitrios Katsinis
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
15:30
Fibre Inflation in Large Volume Compactifications
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George Leontaris
(
University of Ioannina (GR)
)
Fibre Inflation in Large Volume Compactifications
George Leontaris
(
University of Ioannina (GR)
)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis