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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

11 Jun

Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)

11 Jun 25

Berlin

13 Jun

Alessandro Pini: An explicit example of exact results for a 4d N=2 SCFT: a Z_2 orbifold of N=4 SYM

13 Jun 25

Berlin

18 Jun

Tomáš Procházka (Prague, Inst. Phys.)

18 Jun 25

Berlin

27 Jun

Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)

27 Jun 25

Berlin

Calendar

Today

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Wed

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Sun

1:30 PM - Joseph Ventura Kieninger: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM

1:30 PM - Chenliang Su: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM

10:00 AM - Jakob Neef (Trinity Dublin): Expanding the two body problem - Analytical approaches for second order self force

1:30 PM - Chris Kavanagh (University Coll., Dublin)

1:30 PM - Maria Kallimani: Worldline Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes

1:30 PM - Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)

1:30 PM - Alessandro Pini: An explicit example of exact results for a 4d N=2 SCFT: a Z_2 orbifold of N=4 SYM

1:30 PM - Tomáš Procházka (Prague, Inst. Phys.)

1:30 PM - Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)

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

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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Jakob Neef (Trinity Dublin): Expanding the two body problem - Analytical approaches for second order self force

02 Jun

Mon 02/06/2025

10:00

The self force formalism is the leading approach to obtaining waveforms for binary sources with extreme mass ratios. Accuracy requirement of the upcoming LISA mission [...]

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Chris Kavanagh (University Coll., Dublin)

04 Jun

Wed 04/06/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Chris Kavanagh Title: Analytical self-force and black hole scattering Abstract: This talk will begin with a brief overview of the status and challenges associated [...]

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Maria Kallimani: Worldline Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes

06 Jun

Fri 06/06/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Maria Kallimani (HU Berlin) Title: Worldline Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss a framework for the computation of scattering amplitudes by [...]

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Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)

11 Jun

Wed 11/06/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Leron Borsten Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

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Alessandro Pini: An explicit example of exact results for a 4d N=2 SCFT: a Z_2 orbifold of N=4 SYM

13 Jun

Fri 13/06/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: Alessandro Pini (HU Berlin) Title: An explicit example of exact results for a 4d N=2 SCFT: a Z_2 orbifold of N=4 SYM Abstract: We consider [...]

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Tomáš Procházka (Prague, Inst. Phys.)

18 Jun

Wed 18/06/2025

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building