Xmas Theoretical Physics Workshop @Athens 2024

from Wednesday 18 December 2024 (08:45) to Friday 20 December 2024 (16:30)
Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis)

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