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, 17 December 2025 (08:45) to Friday, 19 December 2025 (16:30)

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

08:45 Reception
Reception
08:45 - 09:15

09:15 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
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 Morning Session I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

09:30 The thermal representation of conformal ladder integrals - Tassos Petkou (AUTH)

10:15 Bipolaronic high transition- temperature superconductivity - John Sous (Yale University)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Morning Session II
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

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

12:15 Black holes with primary hair - Christos Charmoussis (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Afternoon Session I
14:30 - 17:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

14:30 Searching for emergent spacetime in spin-glasses - Dimitris Saraidaris (Freie Universität Berlin)

15:00 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)

15:30 The TTbar Connection - Evangelos Tsolakidis (University of Iceland)

16:00 Carrollian conformal dynamics: a flat-holographic story - Simon Alexandre Pekar (SISSA)

16:30 Mirrors at the edge of spacetime: Null infinity as an inverted extremal horizon - Panagiotis Charalambous (SISSA)
Thursday, 18 December 2025
09:30 Morning Session I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

09:30 Non-relativistic unitarity, long-range interactions and dark matter - Kalliopi Petraki

10:15 CP and Flavour Violation as a Probe for New Phenomena - Emmanuel Stamou (TU Dortmund)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Morning Session II
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

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

12:15 Holography and a codimension-2 defect CFT - Dimitrios Zoakos (University of Patras)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Afternoon Session I
14:30 - 16:30
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

14:30 Progress in the study of scalar CFTs - Stefanos Robert Kousvos (University of Torino and INFN Torino)

15:00 Features of gravitini and supersymmetry in de Sitter space - Vasileios Letsios (UMONS)

15:30 Chern-Simons-matter theories and Precision Holography - Alexia Nix (University of Iceland)

16:00 Critical Dynamics of Superfluids - POLYDOROS KAILIDIS
Friday, 19 December 2025
09:30 Morning Session I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

09:30 Quantum Simulation and Optimization using Rydberg Atoms - Peter Schmelcher (University of Hamburg)

10:15 Mathematical Structures in Scattering Amplitudes - Anastasia Volovich (Brown University (US))
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Morning Session II
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis
Contributions

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

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