Name: Athens Xmas Workshop in Theoretical Physics – 2025
Start: 2025-12-17T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2025-12-19T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Athens Xmas Workshop in Theoretical Physics – 2025

from Wednesday, December 17, 2025 (8:45 AM) to Friday, December 19, 2025 (4:30 PM)

Monday, December 15, 2025
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

8:45 AM Reception
Reception
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM

9:15 AM Greeting by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prof. Gerasimos Siasos
Greeting by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prof. Gerasimos Siasos
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Morning Session I
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

9:30 AM The thermal representation of conformal ladder integrals - Tassos Petkou (AUTH)

10:15 AM Bipolaronic high transition- temperature superconductivity - John Sous (Yale University)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Morning Session II
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

11:30 AM Hamiltonian Truncation Tensor Networks: a new numerical method for the simulation of 1+1D quantum field theory - Spyros Sotiriadis (University of Crete)

12:15 PM Black holes with primary hair - Christos Charmoussis (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Afternoon Session I
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

2:30 PM Searching for emergent spacetime in spin-glasses - Dimitris Saraidaris (Freie Universität Berlin)

3:00 PM Towards a theory of dissipative Dark Matter I: the Born limit - Garance Lankester--Broche (Particle Physics Group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna; Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

3:30 PM The TTbar Connection - Evangelos Tsolakidis (University of Iceland)

4:00 PM Carrollian conformal dynamics: a flat-holographic story - Simon Alexandre Pekar (SISSA)

4:30 PM Mirrors at the edge of spacetime: Null infinity as an inverted extremal horizon - Panagiotis Charalambous (SISSA)
Thursday, December 18, 2025
9:30 AM Morning Session I
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

9:30 AM Non-relativistic unitarity, long-range interactions and dark matter - Kalliopi Petraki

10:15 AM CP and Flavour Violation as a Probe for New Phenomena - Emmanuel Stamou (TU Dortmund)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Morning Session II
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

11:30 AM Deep Finite Temperature Bootstrap - Costis Papageorgakis (Queen Mary University of London)

12:15 PM Holography and a codimension-2 defect CFT - Dimitrios Zoakos (University of Patras)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Afternoon Session I
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

2:30 PM Progress in the study of scalar CFTs - Stefanos Robert Kousvos (University of Torino and INFN Torino)

3:00 PM Features of gravitini and supersymmetry in de Sitter space - Vasileios Letsios (UMONS)

3:30 PM Chern-Simons-matter theories and Precision Holography - Alexia Nix (University of Iceland)

4:00 PM Critical Dynamics of Superfluids - POLYDOROS KAILIDIS
Friday, December 19, 2025
9:30 AM Morning Session I
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

9:30 AM Quantum Simulation and Optimization using Rydberg Atoms - Peter Schmelcher (University of Hamburg)

10:15 AM Mathematical Structures in Scattering Amplitudes - Anastasia Volovich (Brown University (US))
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Morning Session II
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

11:30 AM Integrable Quantum Field Theories Perturbed by TTbar - Olalla Castro Alvaredo

12:15 PM Amplitudes, Zigzags, and Curves - Marcus Benjamin Spradlin (Brown University (US))

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