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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

15 Oct

Irina Bobrova (MPI, Leipzig)

15 Oct 25

Berlin

17 Oct

Tobias Scherdin (HU Berlin)

17 Oct 25

Berlin

21 Oct

QFT Colloquium (Auditorium, Lise-Maitner-Haus, 15.15): Hartmut Wittig, U. Mainz

21 Oct 25

Berlin

07 Nov

Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)

7 Nov 25

Berlin

Calendar

Today

Mon

Tue

Wed

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Fri

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Sun

1:30 PM - Alessandro Sfondrini (Padua U.)

2:00 PM - QFT Colloquium: Volker Schomerus on "Ising’s Challenge and the Conformal Bootstrap"

10:00 AM - Alain Goldberg

1:30 PM - Maria J. Rodriguez (Utah State U., Harvard U., IFT Madrid)

1:30 PM - Frank Göhmann: Thermal form factor approach to the dynamical correlation functions of integrable lattice models

10:00 AM - Jitze Hoogeveen

1:30 PM - Carlos Núñez (Swansea U.)

1:30 PM - Davide Scazzuso: Quantum geometry and gauged linear sigma models

1:30 PM - Mathias Driesse

10:00 AM - Nabha Shah

Alessandro Sfondrini (Padua U.)

02 Jul

Wed 02/07/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Alessandro Sfondrini Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

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QFT Colloquium: Volker Schomerus on "Ising’s Challenge and the Conformal Bootstrap"

04 Jul

Fri 04/07/2025

14:00 - 15:30

Colloquia

Colloquium, part of the RTG2575 QFT-Colloquia series Room 1.221, at 14:00 Speaker: Volker Schomerus, DESY Hamburg Title: Ising’s Challenge and the Conformal Bootstrap Abstract: Throughout [...]

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Alain Goldberg

07 Jul

Mon 07/07/2025

10:00 - 11:00

Room 1.207

ERC Group Seminar

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Maria J. Rodriguez (Utah State U., Harvard U., IFT Madrid)

09 Jul

Wed 09/07/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Maria J. Rodriguez Title: Love Numbers and Black Holes Abstract:In this talk, I will review the gravitational tidal Love numbers and focus on these [...]

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Frank Göhmann: Thermal form factor approach to the dynamical correlation functions of integrable lattice models

11 Jul

Fri 11/07/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Frank Göhmann (Uni Wuppertal) Title: Thermal form factor approach to the dynamical correlation functions of integrable lattice models Abstract: We have initiated a study of [...]

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Jitze Hoogeveen

14 Jul

Mon 14/07/2025

10:00 - 11:00

Room 1.207

ERC Group Seminar

Title: Now what? - Future directions from probe dynamics Abstract: Feynman diagrams (in WQFT) generally express observables in terms of iterated integrals. Through IBP [...]

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Carlos Núñez (Swansea U.)

16 Jul

Wed 16/07/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Carlos Núñez Title: Aspects of gauge-strings duality Abstract: I will present recent developments in the duality between gauge fields and strings. The talk is [...]

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Davide Scazzuso: Quantum geometry and gauged linear sigma models

18 Jul

Fri 18/07/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Davide Scazzuso (HU Berlin) Title: Quantum geometry and gauged linear sigma models Abstract: In this talk I will discuss gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) [...]

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Mathias Driesse

25 Jul

Fri 25/07/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building