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George Jorjadze (Free University of Tbilisi) - 25 Feb 2026 - 13:30

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George Jorjadze (Free University of Tbilisi) - Wed 25/02/2026 - 13:30 - 14:30
Marek Liska (DIAS) - Wed 29/04/2026 - 13:30 - 14:30

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

23 Feb

Paolo Pichini

23 Feb 26

25 Feb

George Jorjadze (Free University of Tbilisi)

25 Feb 26

Berlin

29 Apr

Marek Liska (DIAS)

29 Apr 26

Berlin

Calendar

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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

1:30 PM - George Jorjadze (Free University of Tbilisi)

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

ERC Group Seminar

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Paolo Pichini

23 Feb

Mon 23/02/2026

13:30 - 14:30

ERC Group Seminar

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George Jorjadze (Free University of Tbilisi)

25 Feb

Wed 25/02/2026

13:30 - 14:30

Room 1.221, IRIS building

Pizza Seminars

Speaker: George Jorjadze Title: Equations and their solution for the S-matrix of integrable 2d CFT’s Abstract: We investigate the S-matrix of coset WZW theories such [...]

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Events on Wed 28/01/2026

28 Jan

Didina Serban (IPhT, Saclay)

28 Jan 26

Berlin

Events on Fri 30/01/2026

30 Jan

Janik Rausch (HU Berlin)

30 Jan 26

Berlin

Events on Tue 03/02/2026