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