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Zum Großen Windkanal 2
Berlin, 12489

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QFT Colloquium: Charlotte Sleight (U. Naples) "Holograms in the Sky: Lessons for de Sitter and Flat-space Holography from AdS/CFT" - 13 Feb 2026 - 14:00

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Upcoming Events

QFT Colloquium: Charlotte Sleight (U. Naples) "Holograms in the Sky: Lessons for de Sitter and Flat-space Holography from AdS/CFT" - Fri 13/02/2026 - 14:00 - 15:00

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

11 Feb

Dogan Akpinar (U. Edinburgh)

11 Feb 26

Berlin

13 Feb

Dogan Akpinar

13 Feb 26

Berlin

13 Feb

QFT Colloquium: Charlotte Sleight (U. Naples) "Holograms in the Sky: Lessons for de Sitter and Flat-space Holography from AdS/CFT"

13 Feb 26

Berlin, 12489

16 Feb

Birgitta Biendarra

16 Feb 26

Berlin

Calendar

Today

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

1:30 PM - Didina Serban (IPhT, Saclay)

1:30 PM - Janik Rausch (HU Berlin)

11:00 AM - Francesco Alessio

1:30 PM - Benjamin Basso (ENS, Paris)

1:30 PM - Ana Alonso-Serrano (HU Berlin)

1:30 PM - Dogan Akpinar (U. Edinburgh)

11:00 AM - Dogan Akpinar

2:00 PM - QFT Colloquium: Charlotte Sleight (U. Naples) "Holograms in the Sky: Lessons for de Sitter and Flat-space Holography from AdS/CFT"

1:30 PM - Birgitta Biendarra

1:30 PM - Paolo Pichini

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 [...]

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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: Thermal stress-energy tensor for massless quantum fields in Kerr-Newman spacetime Abstract: We investigated massless quantum fields in a rotational global [...]

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Francesco Alessio

03 Feb

Tue 03/02/2026

11:00 - 12:00

Room 1.221, IRIS building

ERC Group Seminar

Title: From soft to high-energy logarithms in classical gravitational scattering Abstract: Since the discovery of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes, it has become crucial [...]

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Benjamin Basso (ENS, Paris)

04 Feb

Wed 04/02/2026

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Benjamin Basso Title: Origin limits of large-charge correlators in planar N=4 SYM Abstract: I will discuss the behavior of large-charge correlation functions in planar [...]

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Ana Alonso-Serrano (HU Berlin)

06 Feb

Fri 06/02/2026

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Ana Alonso-Serrano (HU Berlin) Title:Quantum estimation of cosmological parameters Abstract: Understanding how well future cosmological experiments can reconstruct the mechanism that generated primordial inhomogeneities is [...]

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Dogan Akpinar (U. Edinburgh)

11 Feb

Wed 11/02/2026

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Dogan Akpinar Title: An On-Shell Approach to Symmetries and Integrability for Kerr Black Hole Scattering Abstract:Recent years have seen significant progress in computing scattering [...]

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Dogan Akpinar

13 Feb

Fri 13/02/2026

11:00 - 12:00

Room 1.107, IRIS Building

ERC Group Seminar

Title: Precision Kerr Black Hole Dynamics from Scattering Amplitudes Abstract: Scattering amplitudes have emerged as a powerful tool for computing classical observables in two-body gravitational [...]

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QFT Colloquium: Charlotte Sleight (U. Naples) "Holograms in the Sky: Lessons for de Sitter and Flat-space Holography from AdS/CFT"

13 Feb

Fri 13/02/2026

14:00 - 15:00

IRIS building, Room 1.221

Colloquia

Speaker Charlotte Sleight, University of Naples Title Holograms in the Sky: Lessons for de Sitter and Flat-space Holography from AdS/CFT Abstract The AdS/CFT correspondence is [...]

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Birgitta Biendarra

16 Feb

Mon 16/02/2026

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building