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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

Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)
11 Jun 25
Berlin
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
Tomáš Procházka (Prague, Inst. Phys.)
18 Jun 25
Berlin
Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
27 Jun 25
Berlin

Calendar

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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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10:00 AM - Jakob Neef (Trinity Dublin): Expanding the two body problem - Analytical approaches for second order self force
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1:30 PM - Chris Kavanagh (University Coll., Dublin)
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1:30 PM - Maria Kallimani: Worldline Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes
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1:30 PM - Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)
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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
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1:30 PM - Tomáš Procházka (Prague, Inst. Phys.)
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1:30 PM - Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
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1:30 PM - Alessandro Sfondrini (Padua U.)
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Joseph Ventura Kieninger: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM
Joseph Ventura Kieninger: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM
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
Chenliang Su: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM
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
Jakob Neef (Trinity Dublin): Expanding the two body problem - Analytical approaches for second order self force
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)
Chris Kavanagh (University Coll., Dublin)
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
Maria Kallimani: Worldline Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes
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.)
Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)
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
Alessandro Pini: An explicit example of exact results for a 4d N=2 SCFT: a Z_2 orbifold of N=4 SYM
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.)
Tomáš Procházka (Prague, Inst. Phys.)
Wed 18/06/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker:Tomáš Procházka Title: Abstract:
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Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
Fri 27/06/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Valentina Forini (HU Berlin) Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
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Alessandro Sfondrini (Padua U.)
Alessandro Sfondrini (Padua U.)
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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Events on Wed 28/05/2025
Joseph Ventura Kieninger: Subleading Regge trajectories in N=4 SYM
28 May 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 30/05/2025
Chenliang Su: Integrability of the surface defect in N = 4 SYM
30 May 25
Berlin
Events on Mon 02/06/2025
Jakob Neef (Trinity Dublin): Expanding the two body problem - Analytical approaches for second order self force
2 Jun 25
Events on Wed 04/06/2025
Chris Kavanagh (University Coll., Dublin)
4 Jun 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 06/06/2025
Maria Kallimani: Worldline Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes
6 Jun 25
Berlin
Events on Wed 11/06/2025
Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire U.)
11 Jun 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 13/06/2025
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
Events on Wed 18/06/2025
Tomáš Procházka (Prague, Inst. Phys.)
18 Jun 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 27/06/2025
Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
27 Jun 25
Berlin
Events on Wed 02/07/2025
Alessandro Sfondrini (Padua U.)
2 Jul 25
Berlin
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