Seminars & workshops

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:

Workshop “FDA meets Generalised Geometry”, 29 September – 1 October 2025
Workshop “Conformal higher spins, twistors and boundary calculus”, 30 June – 4 July 2025
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.

Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis (Ruđer Bošković Institute) | Adiabatically-induced Kawaguchi geometry and jerk in quantum-classical systems | 3 July 2026
Jonas Schnitzer (U. Pavia) | Quantization of the Momentum Map via g-adapted Formalities | 8 June 2026
Sébastien Robert (ULB) | Conservation laws at spatial infinity and the fate of peeling | 23 April 2026
Maria Kallimani (Humboldt U., Berlin) | Color-kinematics duality from homotopy algebras | 12 March 2026
Rodrigo Olea (U. Catolica de Valparaiso) | Holographic Weyl Anomaly and Kounterterms | 15 December 2025
Antoine Rignon-Bret (Université de Lorraine) | The second law: from Lindblad equation to black holes | 27 November 2025
Aravindhan Srinivasan (Charles U., Prague) | Spectrum generating operators in the hybrid superstring formalism | 20 November 2025
Vladislav Kupriyanov (UFABC, Sao Paulo) | Poisson Electrodynamics | 17 March 2025
Si Li (Tsinghua U., Beijing) | Quantum Mechanics with zero Hamiltonian | 19 February 2025
Carlo Iazeolla (Guglielmo Marconi U., Roma) | Fractional spins, unfolding and holography: a parent theory for dual higher spin gravities | 10 February 2025
Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo (U. Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago) | Maxwell gravity from an expansion in the cosmological constant | 22 January 2025
Keith Glennon (OIST, Okinawa) | K27 Symmetry of String Theory and Bosonic M-Theory | 13 January 2025

The abstracts and the list of older local seminars are available here.

Older seminars are listed here, while you can find a list of scientific visits here. Between 2020 and 2022 we also contributed to the organisation of the Higher Spin Gravity online-club.