Advanced Summer School in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

from Tuesday, 23 June 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 3 July 2026 (16:00)
Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
25 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026
27 Jun 2026
29 Jun 2026
30 Jun 2026
1 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026
AM
09:00 Introduction to conformal collider physics (1) - Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Aspects of the Swampland Distance Conjecture (1) - Irene Valenzuela Agui (CERN)  
09:00 Theory of cosmological fluctuations (1) - Guilherme Pimentel (Scuola Normale Superiore)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Aspects of the Swampland Distance Conjecture (2) - Irene Valenzuela Agui (CERN)  
09:00 Theory of cosmological fluctuations (2) - Guilherme Pimentel (Scuola Normale Superiore)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Introduction to conformal collider physics (2) - Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN)  
09:00 Introduction to conformal collider physics (3) - Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Aspects of the Swampland Distance Conjecture (3) - Irene Valenzuela Agui (CERN)  
09:00 Why supergravity needs string theory (1) - Ashoke Sen (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Wormholes and closed universes in AdS/CFT (3) - Hong Liu (Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston, USA)  
09:00 Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes (1) - Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Why supergravity needs string theory (2) - Ashoke Sen (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India)  
09:00 Why supergravity needs string theory (3) - Ashoke Sen (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 3d gravity, averaged holography, and Virasoro TQFT (1) - Scott Collier (Syracuse University, USA)  
09:00 Quantum Chaos and Quantum Gravity in the Double Scaled SYK model (2) - Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes (2) - Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)  
09:00 Quantum Chaos and Quantum Gravity in the Double Scaled SYK model (3) - Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 3d gravity, averaged holography, and Virasoro TQFT (2) - Scott Collier (Syracuse University, USA)  
09:00 Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes (3) - Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)  
10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 3d gravity, averaged holography, and Virasoro TQFT (3) - Scott Collier (Syracuse University, USA)  
PM
12:15 --- Lunch Break ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Gong Show  
18:15 --- Welcome drink ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Wormholes and closed universes in AdS/CFT (1) - Hong Liu (Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston, USA)  
17:30
Discussion (until 19:00)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Wormholes and closed universes in AdS/CFT (2) - Hong Liu (Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston, USA)  
17:30
Discussion (until 18:30)
19:00 Presentation Grand Public - Piotr Tourkine (LAPTH, Annecy, France)  
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Theory of cosmological fluctuations (3) - Guilherme Pimentel (Scuola Normale Superiore)  
17:30
Discussion (until 18:30)
16:00 --- Excursion ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Quantum Chaos and Quantum Gravity in the Double Scaled SYK model (1) - Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)  
17:30
Wisdom Tree (until 18:30)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Defects in Quantum Field Theory and Many Body Systems: RG flows, Generalized Symmetries, and Exotic Dynamics (1) - Zohar Komargodski (Simons Center of Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA)  
17:30
Discussion (until 18:30)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Defects in Quantum Field Theory and Many Body Systems: RG flows, Generalized Symmetries, and Exotic Dynamics (2) - Zohar Komargodski (Simons Center of Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA)  
17:30
Discussion (until 18:30)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Defects in Quantum Field Theory and Many Body Systems: RG flows, Generalized Symmetries, and Exotic Dynamics (3) - Zohar Komargodski (Simons Center of Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA)  
17:30
Discussion (until 18:30)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---