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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

30 May
Chenliang Su: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM
30 May 25
Berlin
04 Jun
Chris Kavanagh (University Coll., Dublin)
4 Jun 25
Berlin
06 Jun
Maria Kallimani (HU Berlin)
6 Jun 25
Berlin
11 Jun
Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)
11 Jun 25
Berlin

Calendar

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1:30 PM - Ezra Getzler (Northwestern U.)
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1:00 PM - Moritz Kade (HU Berlin)
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10:00 AM - Kathrin Stoldt (HU): Radiated angular momentum from black hole scattering trajectories
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1:30 PM - Manuel del Piano (SSM, Naples)
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1:15 PM - Zoltan Bajnok: Solving four-dimensional superconformal Yang-Mills theories with Tracy-Widom distribution
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1:30 PM - MSc Defense B. Varol
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10:00 AM - Carl Jordan Eriksen: Classical gravitational Compton amplitudes from flat and curved space
1:30 PM - Rafael Aoude (U. Edinburgh)
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10:00 AM - Carl Jordan Eriksen: Classical gravitational Compton amplitudes from flat and curved space
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1:30 PM - Florian Ermer: Computational Aspects of the One-Loop Dilatation Operator in Planar N=4 Super-Yang–Mills Theory
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1:30 PM - Joseph Ventura Kieninger: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM
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1:30 PM - Chenliang Su: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM
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Ezra Getzler (Northwestern U.)
30 Apr
Wed 30/04/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Ezra Getzler Title:BV cohomology and the Moyal bracket Abstract: The N=1 spinning particle is the one-dimensional worldsheet reduction of the field theory underlying the [...]
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Moritz Kade (HU Berlin)
09 May
Fri 09/05/2025    
13:00 - 14:00
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Moritz Kade (HU Berlin) Title: Integrable systems: From the ice rule to supersymmetric fishnet Feynman diagrams Abstract: This defense presents the correspondence between models of [...]
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Kathrin Stoldt (HU): Radiated angular momentum from black hole scattering trajectories
12 May
Mon 12/05/2025    
10:00
  • ERC Group Seminar
 I will present our recent progress on the calculation of the angular momentum which is radiated by a  system of two spinning, scattering black holes [...]
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Manuel del Piano (SSM, Naples)
14 May
Wed 14/05/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Manuel del Piano Title: An effective metric description of quantum black holes Abstract: Black holes provide a unique setting to explore quantum gravity, where [...]
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Zoltan Bajnok: Solving four-dimensional superconformal Yang-Mills theories with Tracy-Widom distribution
16 May
Fri 16/05/2025    
13:15 - 14:15
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Zoltan Bajnok (Wigner Research Centre for Physics ) Title: Solving four-dimensional superconformal Yang-Mills theories with Tracy-Widom distribution Abstract: In my talk I will review our recent [...]
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MSc Defense B. Varol
19 May
Mon 19/05/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
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Carl Jordan Eriksen: Classical gravitational Compton amplitudes from flat and curved space
21 May
Wed 21/05/2025    
10:00
  • ERC Group Seminar
Motivated by the study of extreme mass-ratio binary systems, the use of curved backgrounds in computations of classical, gravitational amplitudes have recently appeared in the [...]
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Rafael Aoude (U. Edinburgh)
21 May
Wed 21/05/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Rafael Aoude Title: Amplitudes for Hawking Radiation Abstract:In this talk, I will show an approach to compute Hawking radiation based on on-shell scattering amplitudes. The Hawking spectrum is obtained by [...]
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Carl Jordan Eriksen: Classical gravitational Compton amplitudes from flat and curved space
22 May
Thu 22/05/2025    
10:00
Motivated by the study of extreme mass-ratio binary systems, the use of curved backgrounds in computations of classical, gravitational amplitudes have recently appeared in the [...]
More Info
Florian Ermer: Computational Aspects of the One-Loop Dilatation Operator in Planar N=4 Super-Yang–Mills Theory
23 May
Fri 23/05/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Florian Ermer (HU Berlin) Title: Computational Aspects of the One-Loop Dilatation Operator in Planar N=4 Super-Yang–Mills Theory Abstract: This talk focuses on the computational [...]
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Joseph Ventura Kieninger: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM
28 May
Wed 28/05/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Joseph Kieninger (HU Berlin) Title: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM Abstract: In this talk, I will present a class of Regge trajectories in N=4 [...]
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Chenliang Su: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM
30 May
Fri 30/05/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Chenliang Su (Niels Bohr Institute) Title: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the integrability [...]
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Events on Wed 30/04/2025
30 Apr
Ezra Getzler (Northwestern U.)
30 Apr 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 09/05/2025
09 May
Moritz Kade (HU Berlin)
9 May 25
Berlin
Events on Mon 12/05/2025
12 May
Kathrin Stoldt (HU): Radiated angular momentum from black hole scattering trajectories
12 May 25
Events on Wed 14/05/2025
14 May
Manuel del Piano (SSM, Naples)
14 May 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 16/05/2025
16 May
Zoltan Bajnok: Solving four-dimensional superconformal Yang-Mills theories with Tracy-Widom distribution
16 May 25
Berlin
Events on Mon 19/05/2025
19 May
MSc Defense B. Varol
19 May 25
Events on Wed 21/05/2025
21 May
Carl Jordan Eriksen: Classical gravitational Compton amplitudes from flat and curved space
21 May 25
21 May
Rafael Aoude (U. Edinburgh)
21 May 25
Berlin
Events on Thu 22/05/2025
22 May
Carl Jordan Eriksen: Classical gravitational Compton amplitudes from flat and curved space
22 May 25
Events on Fri 23/05/2025
23 May
Florian Ermer: Computational Aspects of the One-Loop Dilatation Operator in Planar N=4 Super-Yang–Mills Theory
23 May 25
Berlin
Events on Wed 28/05/2025
28 May
Joseph Ventura Kieninger: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM
28 May 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 30/05/2025
30 May
Chenliang Su: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM
30 May 25
Berlin
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