Athens Xmas Workshop in Theoretical Physics – 2025

from Wednesday, 17 December 2025 (08:45) to Friday, 19 December 2025 (16:30)
Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Dec 2025
18 Dec 2025
19 Dec 2025
AM
08:45 Reception  
09:15 Greeting by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prof. Gerasimos Siasos  
09:30
Morning Session I - Konstantinos Sfetsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)) (until 11:00)
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 ---
11:30
Morning Session II - Aris Moustakas (until 13:00)
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))  
09:30
Morning Session I - Vassilis Spanos (Department of Physics National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) (until 11:00)
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 ---
11:30
Morning Session II - Ioannis Papadimitriou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)) (until 13:00)
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)  
09:30
Morning Session I - Georgios Papathanasiou (until 11:00)
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 ---
11:30
Morning Session II - Dimitrios Zoakos (University of Patras) (until 13:00)
11:30 Integrable Quantum Field Theories Perturbed by TTbar - Olalla Castro Alvaredo  
12:15 Amplitudes, Zigzags, and Curves - Marcus Benjamin Spradlin (Brown University (US))  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Afternoon Session I - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY)) (until 17:00)
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 - Mrs 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)  
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Afternoon Session I - Manuela Kulaxizi (until 16:30)
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