EUROSTRINGS 2026 - COST Action Theory-Challenges General Meeting

May 4, 2026, 8:30 AM → May 7, 2026, 6:00 PM Europe/Athens

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Scope

Eurostrings is a series of annual conferences gathering researchers from all over Europe and elsewhere, working on string theory, gauge/gravity duality, quantum gravity and quantum field theories, and the relations among them. Previous Eurostrings conferences were held in Stockholm, Southampton, Gijon, Lyon, London, Milano, Leuven, Cambridge.

Invited Speakers

Public Talk

Local Organizing Committee

Fotis Farakos (National Technical University of Athens)
Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete)
Ioannis Papadimitriou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Georgios Papathanasiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Anastasios Petkou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Ioannis Rizos (University of Ioannina)
Konstantinos Sfetsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Dimitrios Zoakos (University of Patras)

Advisory Committee

Oren Bergman (Technion)
Agnese Bissi (ICTP and Uppsala University)
Riccardo Borsato (Santiago de Compostella)
Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna)
Martin Cederwall (Chalmers University of Technology)
Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich)
Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College London)
Thomas Grimm (Utrecht University)
Magdalena Larfors (Uppsala University)
Fernando Marchesano (IFT Madrid)
Vasilis Niarchos (University of Crete)
Niels Obers (Niels Bohr Institute)
Boris Pioline (LPTHE Paris)
Elli Pomoni (DESY)
Henning Samtleben (ENS Lyon)
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (University of Oxford)
Alessandro Sfondrini (University of Padova)
Nicolaos Toumbas (University of Cyprus)
Antoine Van Proeyen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Alberto Zaffaroni (Milan Bicocca University)
Konstantin Zarembo (NORDITA)

 

THEORY-CHALLENGES Action

CA22113 - Fundamental challenges in theoretical physics (THEORY-CHALLENGES)

   

Mon, May 4

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Plenary Session

9:00 AM Talk

9:50 AM Talk

10:40 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM Talk

12:10 PM Talk

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch Break

2:30 PM → 5:00 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

4:30 PM Talk

2:30 PM → 5:00 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

4:30 PM Talk

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Poster Session

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Welcome Reception

Tue, May 5

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Plenary Session

9:00 AM Talk

9:50 AM Talk

10:40 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM Talk

12:10 PM Talk

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch Break

2:30 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

4:30 PM Talk

5:00 PM Talk

2:30 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

4:30 PM Talk

5:00 PM Talk

Wed, May 6

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Plenary Session

9:00 AM Talk

9:50 AM Talk

10:40 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM Talk

12:10 PM Talk

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch Break

2:30 PM → 4:30 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

2:30 PM → 4:30 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Public Talk

8:00 PM → 11:00 PM Conference Dinner

Thu, May 7

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Plenary Session

9:00 AM Talk

9:50 AM Talk

10:40 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM Talk

12:10 PM Talk

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch Break

2:30 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

4:30 PM Talk

5:00 PM Talk

2:30 PM → 5:30 PM Parallel Session

2:30 PM Talk

3:00 PM Talk

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Talk

4:30 PM Talk

5:00 PM Talk