Quantum Field and String Theory Group
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Math.-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Physik
Humboldt University
  • People
    • Plefka Group
  • Research
    • Quantum Field Theory and Gravity (Prof. Plefka)
  • Teaching
  • Positions
    • PhD
    • Postdoc
  • Seminars
    • ERC Group Seminar: QFT & Gravity
    • QFT and mathematical Physics Seminars
    • Seminar Archive
  • Publications
  • Theses/Prizes
    • Bachelor Theses
    • Master Theses
    • Diploma Theses
    • Ph.D. Theses
  • Events
  • Funding
  • Contact
  • AG Intern

Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka

Jan Plefka


Email: jan.plefka@hu-berlin.de

Office: IRIS Building, Zum Großen Windkanal 2, Room 2.27

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093 66409 or 66413 (secretary)

Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Talks

For an up to date list of my publications see Inspires (Bibliometry: Inspires, Google scholar or Researcher ID).

Some transparencies of recent talks and lectures.

Rethinking Quantum Field Theory Logo
Logo of the European Research Council
Logo of the Modern Foundation of Scattering Amplitudes

News

  • MAKING WAVES: Predicting with high precision what happens when two black holes scatter
    Our recent high-precision black hole scattering paper was now published in Nature:
    "Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering:
    AND we made it on the cover!

Seminars

30 Jan
Janik Rausch (HU Berlin)
30 Jan 26
Berlin
02 Feb
Francesco Alessio
2 Feb 26
Berlin
06 Feb
Ana Alonso-Serrano (HU Berlin)
6 Feb 26
Berlin
11 Feb
Dogan Akpinar (U. Edinburgh)
11 Feb 26
Berlin

Calendar

Today
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
M
T
W
T
F
S
S
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1:30 PM - Tim Meier (U. Santiago de Compostela)
8
9
1:30 PM - Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
10
11
12
3:00 PM - Gustav Jakobsen
13
14
1:30 PM - Waltraut Knop (DESY)
15
16
1:30 PM - Camilla Lavino (HU Berlin)
17
18
19
20
21
22
1:30 PM - Ana Retore (DESY)
23
24
25
26
27
28
1:30 PM - Didina Serban (IPhT, Saclay)
29
30
1:30 PM - Janik Rausch (HU Berlin)
31
1
Tim Meier (U. Santiago de Compostela)
07 Jan
Wed 07/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Tim Meier Title: Noncommutative deformations of gauge theories via Drinfel’d twists of the scale symmetry Abstract: Integrability within the AdS/CFT correspondence provides a powerful [...]
More Info
Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
09 Jan
Fri 09/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Valentina Forini (HU Berlin) Title: Remarks on flux-tubes and defects in holography Abstract: I will discuss the physics of a cusped Wilson loop in N=4 [...]
More Info
Gustav Jakobsen
12 Jan
Mon 12/01/2026    
15:00 - 16:00
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • ERC Group Seminar
Title:Wave Scattering and the Gravitational Compton Amplitude in WQFT Abstract:The gravitational Compton amplitude is an ideal observable for analyzing quadratic-in-curvature couplings of generic (Kerr) black [...]
More Info
Waltraut Knop (DESY)
14 Jan
Wed 14/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Waltraut Knop Title: Bootstrapping Supergraviton Amplitudes Abstract: In this talk we will bound the space of tree-level, 2→2 graviton amplitudes in ten dimensions with [...]
More Info
Camilla Lavino (HU Berlin)
16 Jan
Fri 16/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Camilla Lavino (HU Berlin) Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
More Info
Ana Retore (DESY)
22 Jan
Thu 22/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Ana Retore Title: Beyond "standard" integrability Abstract: The presence of integrability in a given model translates in a powerful toolkit available to solve and [...]
More Info
Didina Serban (IPhT, Saclay)
28 Jan
Wed 28/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Didina Serban Title: Correlation functions in integrable supersymmetric four-dimensional gauge theories Abstract: The talk will start with a reminder of the method of hexagonalization [...]
More Info
Janik Rausch (HU Berlin)
30 Jan
Fri 30/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Janik Rausch (HU Berlin) Title: Thermal stress-energy tensor for massless quantum fields in Kerr-Newman spacetime Abstract: We investigated massless quantum fields in a rotational global [...]
More Info
Events on Wed 07/01/2026
07 Jan
Tim Meier (U. Santiago de Compostela)
7 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Fri 09/01/2026
09 Jan
Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
9 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Mon 12/01/2026
12 Jan
Gustav Jakobsen
12 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Wed 14/01/2026
14 Jan
Waltraut Knop (DESY)
14 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Fri 16/01/2026
16 Jan
Camilla Lavino (HU Berlin)
16 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Thu 22/01/2026
22 Jan
Ana Retore (DESY)
22 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Wed 28/01/2026
28 Jan
Didina Serban (IPhT, Saclay)
28 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Fri 30/01/2026
30 Jan
Janik Rausch (HU Berlin)
30 Jan 26
Berlin
© 2026 Quantum Field and String Theory Group
back up ↑