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Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka

Jan Plefka


Email: jan.plefka@hu-berlin.de

Office: IRIS Building, Zum Großen Windkanal 2, Room 2.27

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093 66409 or 66413 (secretary)

Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Talks

For an up to date list of my publications see Inspires (Bibliometry: Inspires, Google scholar or Researcher ID).

Some transparencies of recent talks and lectures.

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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

07 Jan
Tim Meier (U. Santiago de Compostela)
7 Jan 26
Berlin
09 Jan
Valentina Forini (HU Berlin)
9 Jan 26
Berlin
14 Jan
Waltraut Knop (DESY)
14 Jan 26
Berlin
21 Jan
Ana Retore (DESY)
21 Jan 26
Berlin

Calendar

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1:30 PM - QFT-Colloquium: Chia-Hsien Shen, (Uppsala U and Taiwan U)
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9:00 AM - KMPB 2025/26 Winter Semester Kick-Off Meeting
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1:30 PM - Paul Ryan (DESY)
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1:30 PM - Giuseppe Casale (HU Berlin)
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Stefano De Angelis
01 Dec
Mon 01/12/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • ERC Group Seminar
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QFT-Colloquium: Chia-Hsien Shen, (Uppsala U and Taiwan U)
03 Dec
Wed 03/12/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Colloquia
Speaker: Chia-Hsien Shen, Uppsala University and National Taiwan University Title: Positivity in EFT Renormalization: from Quantum Particles to Classical Black Holes Abstract: Renormalization group (RG) [...]
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KMPB 2025/26 Winter Semester Kick-Off Meeting
05 Dec
Fri 05/12/2025    
09:00 - 12:00
  • Pizza Seminars
https://kmpb.physik.hu-berlin.de/index.php/event/save-the-date-kmpb-2025-26-winter-semester-kick-off-meeting/
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Paul Ryan (DESY)
10 Dec
Wed 10/12/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Paul Ryan Title: High-Rank Structure Constants and Separation of Variables in Planar N=4 SYM Abstract: Integrability in planar N=4 SYM has led to the [...]
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Giuseppe Casale (HU Berlin)
12 Dec
Fri 12/12/2025    
13:30 - 14:30
Room 1.221, IRIS building
  • Pizza Seminars
Speaker: Giuseppe Casale (HU Berlin) Title: Supergravity realisations of λ-models Abstract: λ-models are a family of integrable deformations of two-dimensional CFTs interpolating between the (gauged) [...]
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Events on Mon 01/12/2025
01 Dec
Stefano De Angelis
1 Dec 25
Berlin
Events on Wed 03/12/2025
03 Dec
QFT-Colloquium: Chia-Hsien Shen, (Uppsala U and Taiwan U)
3 Dec 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 05/12/2025
05 Dec
KMPB 2025/26 Winter Semester Kick-Off Meeting
5 Dec 25
Events on Wed 10/12/2025
10 Dec
Paul Ryan (DESY)
10 Dec 25
Berlin
Events on Fri 12/12/2025
12 Dec
Giuseppe Casale (HU Berlin)
12 Dec 25
Berlin
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