Gravity Seminars 2025

Jan 16: Harvey Reall

Title: Third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes

 

Feb 4: Jay Armas (inaugural lecture as an Affiliated Associate Professor)

Title: Hydrodynamics and collective behaviour across scales: from high-energy to gravity, quantum/active matter, and social dynamics.

 

Feb 6: Luis Fernando Alday

Title: The AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude

 

Feb 18: Alessandro Sfondrini

Title: A progress report on AdS3/CFT2 holography

 

Feb 21: Oscar Dias

Title: Localised thermal phases in BFFS quantum mechanics

 

Feb 25: Jake Bourjaily

Title: Loop Integration: Phenomenology, Polemics, and Prospects Ahead

 

Feb 27: Callum Jones

Title: Smooth Splitting from On-Shell Recursion and Hidden Zeros in 4D Helicity Amplitudes

 

Mar 6: Stefan Vandoren

Title: Aspects of Carroll limits, partition functions and flat space holography

 

Mar 12: Cumrun Vafa (Quantum Gravity and Joint Theory Seminar)

Recent developments in the Swampland Program

 

Mar 13: Andreas Brandhuber

Title: Spinning waveforms in (modified) GR from amplitudes

 

Apr 3: Matteo Sergola

Title: Amplitudes for Hawking Radiation