Athens Xmas Workshop in Theoretical Physics – 2025

from Wednesday, December 17, 2025 (8:45 AM) to Friday, December 19, 2025 (4:30 PM)
Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Amphitheater Alkis Argyriadis)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 17, 2025
Dec 18, 2025
Dec 19, 2025
AM
8:45 AM Reception  
9:15 AM Greeting by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prof. Gerasimos Siasos  
9:30 AM
Morning Session I - Konstantinos Sfetsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)) (until 11:00 AM)
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 ---
11:30 AM
Morning Session II - Aris Moustakas (until 1:00 PM)
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))  
9:30 AM
Morning Session I - Vassilis Spanos (Department of Physics National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) (until 11:00 AM)
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 ---
11:30 AM
Morning Session II - Ioannis Papadimitriou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)) (until 1:00 PM)
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)  
9:30 AM
Morning Session I - Georgios Papathanasiou (until 11:00 AM)
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 ---
11:30 AM
Morning Session II - Dimitrios Zoakos (University of Patras) (until 1:00 PM)
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))  
PM
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Afternoon Session I - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY)) (until 5:00 PM)
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 - Mrs 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)  
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Afternoon Session I - Manuela Kulaxizi (until 4:30 PM)
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