GeNeZiSS

Previous Meetings

• GeNeZiSS I (Inaugural meeting):  Neuchâtel, Friday November 5th 2004
  
  
  • A. Alekseev (UniGe): Current Algebras and Differential Geometry
  • S. Fredenhagen (ETHZ): Nonrational Boundary CFTs with c=1
  • N. Prezas (UniNe): D-branes and extended characters in SL(2,R)/U(1)
  
  
  
  
• GeNeZiSS II: ETHZ,  Friday December 3rd 2004
  
  
  • Jean-Pierre Derendinger (UniNe): Moduli Superpotentials of IIA Strings and others
  • Joerg Teschner (Berlin):  Introduction to Liouville Theory
  • Martin Schnabl (CERN): Fake Supergravity, Janus and Interface CFT
  • Maxim Zabzine (QMW): Generalized Complex Geometry from Supersymmetry


• GeNeZiSS III: Neuchâtel, Friday April 22nd 2005
  
  
  • Costas Bachas (ENS Paris, ETHZ): Some comments on Fluxes and the String Landscape
  • Ioannis Bakas (Patras, CERN): On the Integrability of Spherical Gravitational Waves
    
  • Dario Martelli (CERN): Sasaki-Einstein metrics, toric quivers and Z-minimisation
    
  • Ilka Brunner (ETHZ): D-branes from Matrix Factorizations


• GeNeZiSS IV: ETHZ, Friday July 8th 2005
  
  
  
  • Hermann Nicolai (AEI Golm): Loop Quantum Gravity: an Introduction
    
  • Paul Wiegmann (U. Chicago): Hydrodynamics instabilities in degenerate quantum systems
    


• GeNeZiSS V (Ph.D. Student and Postdoc Day): Neuchâtel, Friday November 11th 2005
  
  • Samuel Monnier (Geneva): D-branes in Lie groups of rank > 1
    
  • Pavol Severa (Geneva): Quantization of twisted Poisson structures
    
  • Martin Kunz (Geneva): Why do we live in 3+1 dimensions?
    
  • Florian Dubath (Geneva): Large-N phase transitions for generalized 2d Yang-Mills theory
    
  • Denis Frank (Neuchâtel): Fermi Coordinates and Penrose Limits
    
  • Monica Borunda (Neuchâtel): Universal Behavior of Cosmological Singularities & String Theory
    
  • Sebastian Weiss (Neuchâtel): Massless scalar fields as probes for spacetime singularities
    
  • Marta Gomez-Reino (Neuchâtel): Moduli Stabilization and Inflation in String Theory
    
  • Nikolaos Prezas (Neuchâtel): Scherk-Schwarz reduction of M-theory
    
  • Claudio Scrucca (Neuchâtel): Realistic gravity mediation of supersymmetry breaking
    
  • Aldous Zaugg (Neuchâtel): Symmetries, anomalies and beta-functions
    
  • Peter Kaste (Zurich): On D-branes with travelling waves
    
  • Tako Mattik (Zurich): The N=2 integrable boundary sine-Gordon model
    
  • Stefan Fredenhagen (Zurich): Generalised permutation D-branes


• GeNeZiSS VI: ETHZ, Friday February 10th 2006
  
  
  
  • Eliezer Rabinovici (Racah Institute, CERN): On string/blackhole transitions in AdS3 and linear dilaton backgrounds
  • Marcos Marino (CERN): Counting BPS states on the Enriques Calabi-Yau
  • Sara Pasquetti (U. Parma): Topological strings and large N phase transition in q-deformed Yang-Mills


• GeNeZiSS VII: Neuchâtel, Friday April 28th 2006
  
  
  
  • Ralph Blumenhagen (MPI Munich): New heterotic GUT and Standard Model Vacua
  • Laurent Baulieu (LPTHE Paris): Ghosts, shadows and finiteness properties in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory
  • Nick Warner (USC, CERN): Foaming Black Holes and Black Rings
    


• GeNeZiSS VIII: ETHZ, Thursday June 29th 2006
  
  
  
  • Giovanni Felder (ETHZ): Branes in Poisson sigma models and deformation quantization
  • Thomas Hertog (CERN): Holographic Cosmology
  • Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN): Black Hole / Black String Transitions and Matrix Models


• GeNeZiSS IX (the CERN theory group has joined GeNeZiSS): CERN, Friday November 10th 2006
  
  
  
  • Angel Uranga (CERN): Overview of moduli stabilization in type II compactifications
  • Gabriel Lopes Cardoso (LMU Munich): Black hole entropy functions and attractor equations
  • Roberto Emparan (Barcelona): Einstein in Mordor: Black Rings in Higher-dimensional Gravity
  • Rafael Hernandez (CERN): Quantum corrections to the string Bethe ansatz


• GeNeZiSS X: ETHZ, Friday February 2nd 2007
  
  
  
  • Jan de Boer (Amsterdam): Black Holes and Modular Invariance
  • Andreas Recknagel (King's, London): On the effective action of WZW branes
  • David Kosower (Saclay): A maximally supersymmetric journey from perturbation theory to string coupling


• GeNeZiSS XI: Neuchâtel, Friday April 27th 2007
  
  
  
  • Marika Taylor (Amsterdam): Holographic anatomy and the black hole fuzzball proposal
  • Pierre Vanhove (Saclay):  Ultraviolet properties of maximal supergravity theories
  • Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN): N=4 topological amplitudes and string effective action
    


• GeNeZiSS XII: ETHZ, Friday November 2nd 2007
  
  
  • Kris Kennaway (Saclay): Brane Tilings
    
  • Fernando Alday (Utrecht): Scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT
    
  • Lev Lipatov (St. Petersburg  and DESY/Hamburg):  Maximal transcendentality, BFKL Pomeron and double-logarithmic asymptotics in N=4 SUSY
    


• GeNeZiSS XIII: EPFL, Friday March 7th 2008
  
  
  • Wolfgang Lerche  (CERN): Matrix Factorization, D-Branes, and Homological Mirror Symmetry
    
  • Frank Ferrari (ULB, Brussels): The microscopic approach to N=1 super Yang-Mills theories
    
  • Fernando Quevedo (DAMTP, Cambridge): The large volume string scenario
    


• GeNeZiSS XIV: Bern, Friday March 13th 2009
  
  
  • Niels Obers (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen): Blackfolds: a new approach to higher-dimensional black holes
    
  • Edward Witten (IAS Princeton / CERN): Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in N=4 SYM
    


• GeNeZiSS XV: Geneva, Friday April 23rd 2010
  
  
  • Romuald Janik (Jagellonian University, Cracow): Correlation Functions of Operators Dual to Spinning Strings
  • Daniel Persson (ETHZ): Hypermultiplets, instantons, and automorphic forms
  • Johannes Walcher (Theory Division, CERN): Update on Open Mirror Symmetry


• GeNeZISS XVI: EPFL, Friday November 26th 2010
  
  
  • Hugo Duminil (UniGe): Smirnov's Work on the Two-Dimensional Ising Model
  • Bertrand Eynard (CEA Saclay and Bern): Matrix Models and Topological Strings
  • Erik Verlinde (UvA): Emergent Forces


• GeNeZiSS XVII: ETHZ, Friday May 13th 2011
  
  
  • James Drummond (Annecy): Integrable structures in gauge theory scattering amplitudes
  • James Sparks (Oxford): The large N limit of quiver matrix models and Sasakian manifolds
  • Misha Vasiliev (Moscow): Structure of higher-spin gauge theory


• GeNeZiSS XVIII: Geneva, Friday May 4th 2012
  
  
  • Andres Collinucci (CERN): New perspectives for G-flux in F-theory
  • Nikolay Gromov (King's College): Exact spectrum of 4d conformal gauge theories from integrability
  • Christian Vergu (ETHZ): Super-Wilson loops and scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills


• GeNeZiSS XIX: EPFL, Friday November 30th 2012
  
  
  • Ramy Brustein (Ben-Gurion University): Origin of the Black Hole Information Paradox
  • Inaki Garci Etxebarria (CERN): New N=1 dualities from orientifold transitions
  • Kewang Jin (ETHZ): Action principles for higher spin theory
  • Johan Kallen (UniGe): 5D gauge theories and localization
  • Paul Smyth (EPFL): Applications of the embedding tensor
  • Constantin Candu (ETHZ): Minimal model holography
  • Adolfo Guarino (UniBe): Exploring new maximal supergravity
  • Boaz Keren Zur (EPFL): Dilatons and RG flows
  • Filippo Passerini (CERN): Gauge theory, line operators and dualities


• GeNeZiSS XX: Bern, Friday March 13th 2015
  
  
  • Marco Baggio (ETHZ): Exact correlation functions in 4d N=2 SCFTs
  • Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN): The black hole interior in AdS/CFT
  • Ricardo Schiappa (Lisboa, CERN): Touring the Resurgent Structure of Gauge and String Theories


• GeNeZiSS XXI: Bern, Friday November 27th 2015
  
  
  • Christoph Keller (ETHZ): Cauchy conformal fields in d>2
  • Joan Penedones (EPFL): QFT in hyperbolic space and the conformal bootstrap
  • Julian Sonner (UniGe): Nonequilibrium AdS/CFT


• GeNeZiSS XXII (New-Postdocs Day): Bern, Friday December 1st 2017
  
  
  • David Andriot (CERN): On classical de Sitter and Minkowski string backgrounds
  • Andrea Campoleoni (ETHZ): Towards quantum 3D higher-spin gravity
  • Mahdi Godazgar (ETHZ): Aretakis charges and null infinity
  • Denis Karateev (EPFL): Conformal Bootstrap in 4D
  • Deb Sarkar (UniBe): Connecting holographic complexity to bulk entanglement
  • Benjamin Withers (UniGe): Tails of steady states and non-Killing horizons


• GeNeZiSS XXIII: Bern, Friday April 27 2018
  
  
  • Iosif Bena (Saclay): Physics at the horizon - mind the cap!
  • Matthias Gaberdiel (ETHZ): AdS3 at the string scale
  • Nissan Itzhaki (Tel-Aviv University): The FZZ duality and the black hole horizon


• GeNeZiSS XXIV (New-Postdocs Day): Bern, Friday November 30 2018
  
  
  • Pietro Longhi (ETHZ): Physics and Geometry of Knots-Quivers Correspondence
  • Madalena Lemos (CERN): The Bootstrap Approach to Four-dimensional Superconformal Field Theories
  • Yunfeng Jiang (CERN): Uniqueness of TTbar Deformation from Modularity
  • Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli (UniBe): On TTbar Deformations and Supersymmetry
  • Jie Gu (UniGe): Solutions to Minmal 6D SCFTs by Modularity and Blowup Equations
  • Daniel Medina Rincon (ETHZ): Holographic Wilson Loops: Quantum String Corrections


• GeNeZiSS XXV: Bern, Friday May 24 2019
  
  
  • Steve Giddings (UCSB, CERN): Gravitational dressing: soft charges, holography, and the quantum structure of gravity
  • Diego Hofman (UvA Amsterdam): Einstein Gravity from Conformal Collider Experiments
  • K.S. Narain (ICTP Trieste): Localization on AdS Spaces for Vector Multiplets


• GeNeZiSS XXVI (New-Postdocs Day): Bern, Friday November 29 2019
  
  
  • Marc-Antoine Fiset (ETHZ): Connecting stringy geometry: from G_2 and Spin(7) to Virasoro N=2
  • Matthijs Hogervorst (EPFL): Exploring the epsilon Expansion
  • Ling Lin (CERN): Characterization and Classification of 5d SCFTs via Geometry
  • Stefano Massai (ETHZ): Stringy black hole microstates
  • Pranjal Nayak (UniGe): Extended Eigenstate thermalisation in Schwarzian theory
  • Gabor Sarosi (CERN): Chaos in the butterfly cone


• GeNeZiSS XXVII (New-Postdocs Day): Virtual Zoom Meeting, Friday December 11 2020
  
  
  • Nicola Dondi (UniBe): Asymptotics of large charge expansions in CFT
  • Francesco Galvagno (ETHZ): N=2 conformal theories at large charge
  • Fabian Ruehle (CERN): Machine learning applications to string theory problems
  • Biswajit Sahoo (EPFL): Classical Soft Graviton Theorem in D=4
  • Jakub Vosmera (ETHZ): Exploring novel open string boundary conditions with string field theory
  • Donald Youmans (UniBe): BF, Schwarzian Theory and Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction


• GeNeZiSS XXVIII (New-Postdocs / Recent Arrivals Day): Bern, Friday May 13 2022
  
  
  • Fabio Apruzzi (UniBe): A Modern View on Symmetries and Symmetry Theories
  • Tommaso Macrelli (ETHZ): Homotopy Algebras, gauge theories and gravity
  • Marco Meineri (UniGe): Radiation and islands at the end of the world (and beyond)
  • Irene Valenzuela (CERN): Swampland and Black holes
  • Zhao Xiang (EPFL): Flat-space limit of QFT in AdS


• GeNeZiSS XXIX (New-Postdocs / Recent Arrivals Day): Bern, Friday May 26 2023
  
  
  • Joao Caetano (CERN): Large Charge t Hooft Limit of N = 4 Super Yang-Mills
  • Lucia Cordova (CERN): The O(N) monolith reloaded: sum rules and form factor bootstrap
  • Sibylle Driezen (ETHZ): Jordanian deformations of the AdS5xS5 superstring
  • Giacomo Sberveglieri (UniBe): Resurgence and 1/N Expansion in Integrable Field Theories
  • Jiaxin Qiao (EPFL): Wick rotation in CFTs and de Sitter QFTs
  • Ramon Miravitllas (UniGe): Renormalons in integrable quantum field theories


• GeNeZiSS XXX (New-Postdocs / Recent Arrivals Day): Bern, Friday December 1st 2023
  
  
  • Meer Ashwinkumar (UniBe): Dualities and Discretizations of Integrable Quantum Field Theories from 4d Chern-Simons Theory
  • Robin Karlsson (CERN): Black hole bulk-cone singularities
  • Frank Coronado (ETHZ): From correlation functions to massive scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM
  • Zahra Zahraee (CERN): Bootstrapping N = 4 SYM using integrability
  • Qianyu Hao (UniGe) : Topological string / spectral theory correspondence
  • Pronobesh Maity (EPFL): String dual of Two-dimensional Yang-Mills