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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.

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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

07 Jan
Tim Meier (U. Santiago de Compostela)
7 Jan 26
Berlin
09 Jan
Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
9 Jan 26
Berlin
14 Jan
Waltraut Knop (DESY)
14 Jan 26
Berlin
16 Jan
Camilla Lavino (HU Berlin)
16 Jan 26
Berlin

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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 [...]
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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: TBC Abstract: TBC
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Waltraut Knop (DESY)
14 Jan
Wed 14/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Waltraut Knop Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
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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
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Ana Retore (DESY)
21 Jan
Wed 21/01/2026    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Ana Retore Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
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QFT Colloquium
23 Jan
Fri 23/01/2026    
14:00 - 15:00
  • Colloquia
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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: TBC Abstract: TBC
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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 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 Wed 21/01/2026
21 Jan
Ana Retore (DESY)
21 Jan 26
Berlin
Events on Fri 23/01/2026
23 Jan
QFT Colloquium
23 Jan 26
Events on Fri 30/01/2026
30 Jan
Janik Rausch (HU Berlin)
30 Jan 26
Berlin
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