Joint Belgian hep-th seminars held in Mons

 

11 March 2026

  • Céline Zwikel (Collège de France, Paris) | A covariant formulation of logarithmic supertranslations at spatial infinity
  • Simone Speziale (CPT, Marseille) | The importance of covariance for gravitational charges
  • Biswajit Sahoo (King’s College, London) | Emergent Higher-Spin Symmetry on the Celestial Sphere from Loop-Corrected Soft Photon Theorems

 

5 November 2025

  • Dionysios Anninos (King’s College, London) | Features of the Partition Function of a Λ > 0 Universe
  • Konstantinos Siampos (AUTH, Thessaloniki) | The geometric origin of the energy–momentum tensor improvement terms
  • Paolo Vallarino (VUB) | N=2 Universality for integrated correlators at strong coupling

 

12 March 2025

  • Dario Francia (U. Roma Tre) | Double-copy supertranslations
  • Anastasios C. Petkou (AUTH, Thessaloniki) | On the correspondence between thermal one-point functions and conformal Feynman graphs
  • Yannick Herfray (U. Tours) | BMS particles

 

13 November 2024

  • 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

 

24 April 2024

  • 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

 

8 November 2023

  • 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

 

31 May 2023

  • 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

 

1 February 2023

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