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Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis (Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
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9η Τριημερίδα Θεωρητικής Φυσικής, 18-20 Δεκεμβρίου 2024

The primary goal of the annual Christmas workshop in Theoretical Physics held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, is to bring together established and young researchers, in order to present their recent research results and to stimulate scientific interaction.

Invited Speakers

  • Alexandros Alexakis (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
  • Asimima Arvaniraki (Perimeter Institute)
  • Aristomenis Donos (Durham University)
  • Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech) (Canceled)
  • Alessandro Georgoudis (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete and Universite Paris Cite)
  • Carlos Nunez (University of Swansea)
  • Costas Papadopoulos (NCSR Demokritos)
  • Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton)

This year's workshop will include the new “Young Researchers” event (on the 18th) which is intended for senior PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers.

Young Researchers

  • Evangelos Afxonidis (University of Oviedo)
  • Ankit Aggarwal (TU Vienna) (Canceled)
  • Rigers Aliaj (Uni Hamburg)
  • Marios Galanis (Perimeter Institute)
  • Loukas Grimanellis (Kings College London)
  • Fotis Koutroulis (Warsaw University & IHEP Beijing)
  • Nikolaos Liatsos (Natl. Tech. U., Athens)
  • Stavros Mougiakakos (Université Paris Cité)
  • Antonia Paraskevopoulou (LMU/MPI Munich)
  • Houri Christina Tarazi (University of Chicago)
  • Dimitris Toulikas (IPhT, Saclay)
  • Stathis Vitouladitis (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Attendance (In person and virtual)

In-person meeting at the Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis. In addition, there will be a live streaming and interaction through Webex - the link can be provided upon request by sending an email request to: ksiampos@auth.gr

Live broadcast (Youtube)

Wednesday morning (09:30 - 13:00): https://youtube.com/live/CKe1peENiAM 
Wednesday afternoon (14:30 - 17:00): https://youtube.com/live/6FLw6N29IXw
Thursday morning (09:30 - 13:00): https://youtube.com/live/UilbearD-Oc
Thursday afternoon (14:30 - 16:00): https://youtube.com/live/9VHJYJUcwgQ
Friday morning (09:30 - 13:00): https://youtube.com/live/1F3tX1aso0c
Friday afternoon (14:30 - 17:00): https://youtube.com/live/SLmimmtz1XI

SCAM CAUTION
We kindly suggest that you arrange the accommodation by yourself as we have been aware of several scam emails and phishing attempts sent to participants!

Registration opening July 7, 2024

Call for talks deadline Sept 30, 2024

Registration deadline Nov 30, 2024

Organizers
Aris Moustakas (NKUA), Ioannis Papadimitriou (NKUA), Georgios Papathanasiou (City, University of London), Konstantinos Sfetsos (NKUA), Konstantinos Siampos (AUTH) and Vassilis Spanos (NKUA)

This is the 9th annual Xmas Theoretical Physics Workshop to be held in Athens. For past meetings see 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 & 2023

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  • Wednesday 18 December
    • 08:45 → 09:15
      Reception 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
    • 09:15 → 09:30
      Welcome address 15m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Ioannis Papadimitriou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))
    • 09:30 → 11:00
      Chair: Ioannis Papadimitriou
    • 09:30 → 10:00
      Probing the Hubble constant and resolving AGN disks with ultrafast photon counters 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Marios Galanis
      Athens_Xmas.pdf
    • 10:00 → 10:30
      QFT-based methods for classical gravity 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Stavros MOUGIAKAKOS (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon)
      Mougiakakos.Xmas@Athens.pdf
    • 10:30 → 11:00
      Reflections on an M-theoretic Emergence Proposal 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Antonia Paraskevopoulou
      XMAS_Athens_Paraskevopoulou.pdf
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee break 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
    • 11:30 → 12:00
      A journey through the non-geometric Landscape and connections to the Swampland 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Houri Christina Tarazi (University of Chicago)
      talk.pdf
    • 11:30 → 13:00
      Chair: Vassilis Spanos
    • 12:00 → 12:30
      Dark branes for Dark matter and PTA 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Fotios Koutroulis (Warsaw University)
      KOUTROULIS_Xmas2024.key
      KOUTROULIS_Xmas2024.pdf
    • 12:30 → 13:00
      The boundary entropy function for interface conformal field theories 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Evangelos Afxonidis
      XmasAthensAfxonidis.pdf
    • 13:00 → 14:30
      Lunch break 1h 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
    • 14:30 → 17:00
      Chair: Konstantinos Sfetsos
    • 14:30 → 15:00
      The Geometry of Black Hole Microstructure 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Dimitrios Toulikas (IPhT, Universite Paris-Saclay, CEA)
      Toulikas talk.pdf
    • 15:00 → 15:30
      W-symmetries, anomalies and heterotic backgrounds with SU holonomy 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Loukas Grimanellis (King's College London)
      Slides - L. Grimanellis.pdf
    • 15:30 → 16:00
      On the lack of scale-separated supersymmetric AdS_2 flux vacua 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Nikolaos Liatsos (National Technical University of Athens)
      Nikolaos Liatsos Xmas 2024.pdf
    • 16:00 → 16:30
      Gifts from infinite-dimensional current algebras 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Stathis Vitouladitis (University of Amsterdam)
      Xmas gifts Vitouladitis.pdf
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      An Exceptional Cluster Algebra for Higgs plus Jet Production 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Rigers Aliaj (DESY)
      Rigers_Aliaj_XMAS.pdf
  • Thursday 19 December
    • 09:30 → 11:00
      Chair: Konstantinos Sfetsos
    • 09:30 → 10:15
      Scattering amplitudes from holography 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Kostas Skenderis
      Skenderis_Athens2024.pdf
    • 10:15 → 11:00
      Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Asimina Arvanitaki (PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA))
      XmasAthensDec2024.pdf
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee break 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
    • 11:30 → 12:15
      Aspects of gauge-strings duality 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Carlos Nunez (Swansea University)
      carlosforAthensfinal.pdf
    • 11:30 → 13:00
      Chair: Georgios Papathanasiou
    • 12:15 → 13:00
      A turbulent world 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Alexandros Alexakis
      A_Turbulent_World.pdf
    • 13:00 → 14:30
      Lunch break 1h 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
    • 14:30 → 16:00
      Chair: Vassilis Spanos
    • 14:30 → 15:00
      de Sitter vacua, swampland and supergravity 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Fotis Farakos (NTUA)
      SUGRA-SWAMP-FARAKOSv2.pdf
    • 15:00 → 15:30
      An Inflationary Cosmology from (AdS) Wormholes 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Panos Betzios (University of British Columbia)
      WormXmas.pdf
    • 15:30 → 16:00
      Shadow formalism for supersymmetric conformal blocks. 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Boris Runov
      RunovXmasAthens.pdf
  • Friday 20 December
    • 09:30 → 11:00
      Chair: Aris Moustakas
    • 09:30 → 10:15
      Nearly critical superfluids and holography 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Aristomenis Donos (Durham University)
      Donos.pdf
    • 10:15 → 11:00
      (confining) holographic QFTs on AdS 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Elias Kiritsis
      Kiritsis-Athens-2024-l.pdf
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee break 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
    • 11:30 → 12:15
      Amplitude reduction at two loops 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Costas Papadopoulos
      Xmas-NKUA.pdf
    • 11:30 → 13:00
      Chair: Ioannis Papadimitriou
    • 12:15 → 13:00
      Structure Constants from Integrability 45m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Alessandro Georgoudis (ENS Paris)
      XMas24_Georgoudis.pdf
    • 13:00 → 14:30
      Lunch break 1h 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
    • 14:30 → 16:00
      Chair: Georgios Papathanasiou
    • 14:30 → 15:00
      Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: theoretical expectations and challenges 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
      Xmas2024.pdf
    • 15:00 → 15:30
      Entanglement Entropy of Scalar Fields in de Sitter space 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: Dimitrios Katsinis
      Katsinis_Entanglement_dS.pdf
    • 15:30 → 16:00
      Fibre Inflation in Large Volume Compactifications 30m Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis

      Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

      30 Panepistimiou, 10679, Athens
      Speaker: George Leontaris (University of Ioannina (GR))
      Leontaris_xmas2024.pdf
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