Name: Xmas Theoretical Physics Workshop @Athens 2024
Start: 2024-12-18T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2024-12-20T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Kostas Skenderis
Scattering amplitudes from holography
- Kostas Skenderis
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
10:15 Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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