Joint Belgian hep-th seminars
A longstanding Belgian tradition has been the organisation of weekly seminars in high-energy theoretical physics that aim to bring together research groups from various institutes in the country. Originally held by ULB and VUB in Brussels together with KU Leuven, with Mons and Ghent joining, respectively, in 2009 and 2023, the current set of participating institutions is given by
- Brout Englert Lemaître Center
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, High Energy Physics and Relativistic Field Theory group
- International Solvay Institutes
- Université de Mons, Service de Physique de l’Univers, Champs et Gravitation
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Service de Physique Théorique et Mathématique
- Universiteit Gent, Theoretical High Energy Physics group
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Theoretical High Energy Physics group
The seminars take place on most Wednesdays of the academic year, with the location varying among the aforementioned institutions, while speakers are invited from both inland and abroad.
Schedule
10:30 – 11:30 first talk
11:30 – 12:00 coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 second talk
13:00 – 14:00 lunch
Useful information for speakers
Each seminar lasts about one hour, which should approximately consist in 50 minutes of talk, followed by 10 minutes of questions and discussion. The audience comprises the participating institutions’ professors, postdocs and students, who work on a wide range of topics in high-energy theory, from (super)gravity and cosmology to string theory and higher spins. A pedagogical introduction is, therefore, very much encouraged.
- Antoine Rignon-Bret (Marseille U.) | Dynamical observables on null hypersurfaces in general relativity
- Andrew Svesko (King’s College, London) | Quantum inequalities for quantum black holes
- Stefan Prohazka (U. Vienna) | Quantizing carrollian field theories
- Sylvain Lavau (Ruđer Bošković Institute) | A graded geometric perspective on tensor hierarchies
- Tim Adamo (Edinburgh University) | Scattering on self-dual black holes
- Victor Godet (SISSA Trieste) | Quantum cosmology as automorphic dynamics
- Blagoje Oblak (Université libre de Bruxelles) | Anisotropic Quantum Hall Droplets
- Antoine Bourget (IPhT) | Why Symplectic Singularities?
- Ana-Maria Raclariu (University of Amsterdam) | Entanglement, soft modes and celestial CFT
- Michele Schiavina (University of Pavia) | Hamiltonian gauge theory with corners. Soft symmetries, memory and superselection from Hamiltonian reduction by stages
- Sašo Grozdanov (University of Edinburgh) | Spectra, reconstructions and pole-skipping
Special event : BEL lectures by Axel Kleinschmidt (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam).
- String scattering old and new I
- String scattering old and new II
- Antoine Rignon-Bret (CPT Marseille, France), 13 November 2024
- Stefan Prohazka (U. Vienna, Austria), 13 November 2024
- Carlo Heissenberg (Queen Mary University of London, UK), 9 October 2024
Speakers invited by UMONS in previous years are listed here.
Organiser on behalf of UMONS:
Matthieu Vilatte (matthieu.vilatte@umons.ac.be)