Besides being involved in the organisation of the joint Belgian hep-th seminars, we organise local seminars, advanced lecture series and thematic or generic journal clubs. Moreover, we regularly organise international workshops in Mons and host international visitors.
Selected recent workshops:
- Gauge invariance: quantization and geometry – Workshop in memory of Igor Batalin, 9-12 September 2024
- Workshop “Twistors and Higher Spins”, 8-12 July 2024
- 5th Mons Workshop on Higher Spin Gauge Theories, 8-12 January 2024
- Be.HEP Summer Solstice 2023, 23 June 2023
- Mini-workshop “Strings, higher spins and amplitudes”, 25 May 2023
- 2nd Carroll Workshop, 12-16 September 2022
The full list of workshops organised by the unit is available here.
- Felipe Figueroa (LAPTH, Annecy) | How simple can stringy amplitudes be? Ruling out dual model amplitudes with finitely many trajectories | 2 July 2024
- Mirian Tsulaia (OIST, Okinawa) | Massive Higher Spins and Black Hole Interactions | 28 May 2024
- Kristiansen Lara (CECs, Valdivia) | Integrable Systems and spacetime dynamics | 26 October 2023
- Anders Bengtsson (University of Borås) | Archaeology of Higher Spin: A research program in itself | 26 October 2023
- Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis (Boskovic Institute, Zagreb) | Graded Generalised Geometry for Gauge and Gravity theories | 9 October 2023
The abstracts and the seminars of the previous years are available here.
Long-term visitors:
- Marios Petropoulos (École polytecnique, France), May-September 2024
- Matthieu Vilatte (École polytecnique, France and Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece), June 2024
Short-term visitors:
- Simon Pekar (École polytecnique, France), 2-12 July 2024
- Felipe Figueroa (LAPTH Annecy, France), 1-3 July 2024
- Xavier Bekaert (U. Tours, France), 10-14 June 2024
- Mirian Tsulaia (OIST, Japan), 21-31 May 2024
- Sylvain Lavau (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia), 22-26 April, 2024
- Tim Adamo (Edinburgh University, United Kingdom), 23-26 April, 2024
- Kurt Hinterbichler (Case Western Reserve University, United States), 11-16 December 2023
- Anders Bengtsson (University of Borås, Sweden), 23-27 October 2023
- Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis (Boskovic Institute Zagreb, Croatia), 9-13 October 2023
Older seminars are listed here, while you can find a list of previous scientific visits here. Between 2020 and 2022 we also contributed to the organisation of the Higher Spin Gravity online-club.