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plenary conference talks


2024

Supersymmetric Casimir energy on $\mathcal{N}=1$ conformal supergravity backgrounds, Recent Developments in Conformal Field Theories, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Jan. 29 - Feb. 2)


2023

Algebraically special solutions and accelerating black hole thermodynamics, ICTP Workshop on String Theory, Holography, and Black Holes, ICTP, Trieste, Italy. (Oct. 23 – 27)


2022

Time-dependent Solutions and Holography, 11th Aegean Summer School: Recent Developments in Theory and Observations in Gravity and Cosmology, Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece (Sep. 5 - 15)

Exact superpotential for rotating BPS AdS black holes and entropy extremization, Corfu Workshop on Holography and the Swampland, Corfu, Greece. (Sep. 4 - 10)


2021

Black hole superpotential as a unifying entropy function and BPS thermodynamics, KIAS-YITP Joint Workshop 2021, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan (Dec. 13 - 16)

Anomalies and Supersymmetry, Fields, Strings and Geometries, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Sep. 24 - 26)

Anomalies and Supersymmetry, QUARKS-2020 Online Workshop on Integrability, Holography, Higher-Spin Gravity and Strings (May 31 - Jun. 5)


2020

Supersymmetry and Anomalies, YITP Workshop Strings and Fields 2020, Kyoto, Japan (Nov. 16 - 20, Online)

On AdS$_3$ and AdS$_2$ boundary conditions, TTbar Deformation and Integrability, APCTP, Pohang, Korea (Nov. 8 - 14, Online)

Supersymmetry and anomalies, KIAS Autumn Symposium on String Theory, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea (Sep. 21 - 25)

Complex SYK model from AdS$_3$ gravity, Quantum Matter and Quantum Information with Holography, APCTP, Pohang, Korea (Aug. 23 - 31, Online)

Update on supersymmetry anomalies, Strings, Branes and Gauge Theories, APCTP, Pohang, Korea (Jul. 15 - 21, Online)


2019

Supersymmetric black hole thermodynamics and entropy extremization, SNU mini-workshop on Quantum fields and strings, Seoul National University, Korea (Oct. 10 - 12)

Higher form holography, Higher Spin Gravity: Chaotic, Conformal and Algebraic Aspects, APCTP, Pohang, Korea (Sep. 23 - Oct. 2)

Generalized global symmetries and holography, Quantum Matter from Entanglement and Holography, APCTP, Pohang, Korea (Aug. 21 - 29)

Supersymmetry anomalies, Workshop on holography, gauge theories and black holes, STAG Research Centre, Southampton University (Jun. 24 - 25)

Supersymmetry anomalies, Gauge theories, supergravity and superstrings, Benasque, Spain (Jun. 09 - 21)

Supersymmetry anomalies, KIAS Workshop on Challenges and Advances in Theoretical Physics, KIAS, Seoul (May 23 - 24)

Supersymmetry anomalies, 4th USU Strings and Black Holes Workshop, Utah State University, Logan, United States (Apr. 24 - 26)

SQFTs on curved backgrounds and supersymmetry anomalies, Workshop on Black Holes and Holography, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF), Sanya, China (Jan. 7 - 11)

Near Extremal Black Holes and Holography, Workshop on Black Holes, Inflation and Gravitational Waves, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong (Jan. 3 - 5)


2018

Near extremal black holes, attractors, and black hole entropy, East Asian Joint Workshop on Fields and Strings 2018, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul. (Nov. 5 - 9)

SQFTs on curved backgrounds and supersymmetry anomalies, Workshop on Non-perturbative Effects in Supersymmetric Field Theories, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brazil (Oct. 15 - Nov. 2)

$\mathcal{N}=1$ SQFT on curved backgrounds and rigid supersymmetry anomalies, Workshop on Supersymmetric Localization and Holography: Black Hole Entropy and Wilson Loops, ICTP Trieste, Italy (Jul. 9 - 13)

The boundary value problem of (quantum) gravity and Hamiltonian holography, Black Holes, Quantum Chaos, and Solvable Quantum Systems, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF), Sanya, China (Jan. 22 - 26)


2017

Supercurrent anomalies in 4d SCFTs, LPTENS Summer Institute XLVII, Paris (Aug. 16 - 25)

Supercurrent anomalies in 4d SCFTs on curved backgrounds, 9th Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory, Kolymbari, Crete (Jul. 9 - 16)

AdS$_2$ holography and non extremal black holes, The String Theory Universe - 22nd European string workshop and final COST MP1210 conference, Milan (Feb. 20 - 24)


2016

Holographic dictionary for non-relativistic theories, Heraklion Workshop on Theoretical Physics, Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Heraklion (Sep. 5 - 10)

AdS$_2$ holography and non-extremal black holes, Workshop on Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime, NORDITA, Stockholm (Aug. 8 - 19)


2015

A goldstino at the bottom of the cascade, Xmas Theoretical Physics Workshop @Athens 2015 (Dec. 21 - 22)

A goldstino at the bottom of the cascade, 2nd Workshop on holography, gauge theories, and black holes, STAG Research Centre, Southampton (Sep. 14 - 16)

AdS black hole thermodynamics with scalar hair, Theoretical Frontiers in Black Holes and Cosmology, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brazil (Jun. 8 - 19)

AdS black hole thermodynamics with scalar hair, Gauge/Gravity Duality 2015, The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence (Apr. 13 - 17)

Holographic Lifshitz anomalies, Progress in Fluid/Gravity Correspondence, Thessaloniki (Feb. 16 - 20)

Renormalization Group as a Hamiltonian flow and the symplectic structure of quantum field theory, Holographic Renormalization Group and Entanglement, Paris (Jan. 26 - 28)


2014

Hyperscaling violating Lifshitz holography, Quantum Field Theory, String Theory and Condensed Matter Physics, Kolymbari, Crete (Sep. 1 - 7)


2013

Holography for non-asymptotically AdS backgrounds, Holography 2013: Gauge/gravity duality and strongly correlated systems, APCTP Pohang (Jun. 13 - 22)


2012

Field redefinitions, conformally coupled scalars and the $SO(6)×SO(2)$ invariant sector of $\mathcal{N}=8$ gauged supergravity in four dimensions, HoloGrav 2012, Swansea (Apr. 17)


2011

Deconstructing the holographic map: QFT operator spectra and correlation functions from generic holographic backgrounds, Workshop on Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics, Santiago de Compostela (Oct. 20)

Generalized Holographic Renormalization, Sixth Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory, Milos (Jun. 20)

Holographic renormalization of Improved Holographic QCD, Workshop on Large-N Gauge Theories, The Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence (May 12)


2010

Holographic renormalization as a canonical transformation: A first step towards generalized holography, AdS$_4$/CFT$_3$ and the Holographic States of Matter Miniconference, The Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence (Oct. 1)


2009

Holography and Applications, CERN Theory Group Retreat 2009, Les Houches (Nov. 6)

Generalized Holography, Fifth Aegean Summer School on the AdS/CFT correspondence, Milos (Sep. 22)

Holographic Renormalization for Improved Holographic QCD and other backgrounds, Fifth Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory, Kolymbari. (Jun. 30)


2008

Asymptotic Flatness and Holography, Eurostrings 2008, Amsterdam (Jun. 30)


2007

AdS boundary conditions, stability and M-theory instantons, Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory, Patras, Greece (Jun. 12)


2005

Black Hole Thermodynamics and Holography, Workshop on String Theory in Curved backgrounds and Boundary Conformal Field Theory, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna (Nov. 3 - 10)


2004

Holographic Renormalization in the Generalized AdS/CFT Correspondence, 8th UK Meeting on Integrable Models, Conformal Field Theory and Related Topics, Edinburgh (Apr. 17)


2003

A new approach to holographic renormalization in the AdS/CFT correspondence, International School of Subnuclear Physics, 41st Course: From Quarks to Black Holes, Erice (Sep. 1)

 

parallel conference talks and posters


2021

Anomalies and Supersymmetry, PASCOS 2021, Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea (Jun. 14 - 18, Online)


2016

Thermodynamics, transport and relaxation in non-conformal theories, HoloGrav 2016, Current Themes in Holography: Exact results, applications, extensions and fundamentals, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (Apr. 25 - 29, Poster)


2014

Lifshitz hyperscaling violating holography, ICHEP 2014, Valencia (Jul. 2 - 9, Parallel talk)


2005

Thermodynamics of Asymptotically Locally AdS Spacetimes, Trends in Theory 2005, 6th two-yearly symposium of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics, Dalfsen (May 19, Poster)

 

seminars


2023

Algebraically special solutions and accelerating black hole thermodynamics, Kyunghee University, Seoul, South Korea. (Dec. 7)

Algebraically special solutions and accelerating black hole thermodynamics, String Theory Seminar, Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. (Sep. 26)

Complex SYK model from AdS$_3$ gravity, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. (Feb. 17, online)

Robinson-Trautman holography, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. (Feb. 8, online) [youtube]


2022

Robinson-Trautman holography, Theory seminar, Institut de Physique Théorique Saclay, Paris, France. (Nov. 2)

AdS$_5$ BPS black hole superpotential, thermodynamics and entropy extremization, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. (May 16, Online)


2021

Κβαντικές Ανωμαλίες σε Υπερσυμμετρικές Θεωρίες Πεδίου, University of Athens, Greece. (Oct. 01, Online)

Anomalies and Supersymmetry, Harvard Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar, Harvard University. (May 05, Online)

Supersymmetry, anomalies, and supersymmetric partition functions, Pan Holo Guerrilla Seminar, La Plata, Argentina. (Mar. 17, Online)


2020

Black Holes as a Hologram, Theory Colloquium, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. (Apr. 01, Online)

Supersymmetry anomalies, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. (Mar. 31, Online)


2019

Supersymmetry anomalies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. (Sep. 09)

p-form holography and generalized global symmetries, Hanyang University Seoul, South Korea (Jul. 03)

Supersymmetry anomalies, Chung-Ang University Seoul, South Korea (May 29)

Supersymmetry anomalies, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Apr. 15)

Supersymmetry anomalies, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul (Apr. 1)

From Quantum Black Holes to Exotic Materials, Physics Colloquium, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, United States (Feb. 26)


2018

SQFTs on curved backgrounds & supersymmetry anomalies, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing (Nov. 15)

Gravity Colloquium, Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton (Nov. 1)

Effective actions for near extremal black holes and gauge fields in AdS$_2$, String Theory Seminar, Department of Mathematics, King’s College London (Oct. 31)

5D Rotating Black Holes and the nAdS$_2$/nCFT$_1$ Correspondence, APCTP Pohang, Korea (Jun. 26)

Thermoelectric DC conductivities in hyperscaling violating Lifshitz theories, Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan (May 24)

5D Rotating Black Holes and the nAdS$_2$/nCFT$_1$ Correspondence, String Theory Seminar, Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton (Apr. 24)

5D Rotating Black Holes and the nAdS$_2$/nCFT$_1$ Correspondence, AdS Seminar, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing (Mar. 15)

Thermoelectric DC conductivities in hyperscaling violating Lifshitz theories, Beihang University, Beijing (Mar. 13)

Thermoelectric DC conductivities in hyperscaling violating Lifshitz theories, GIST, Gwangju (Feb. 12)

Thermoelectric DC conductivities in hyperscaling violating Lifshitz theories, Hanyang University, Seoul (Feb. 7)


2017

The supercurrent anomaly on classically supersymmetric curved backgrounds, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University. (Dec. 4)

The supercurrent anomaly on classically supersymmetric curved backgrounds, String Group Seminar, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (Nov. 30)

Supercurrent anomalies in 4d SCFTs, University of Padova (Sep. 5)

Supercurrent anomalies in 4d SCFTs, CERN Theory Seminar (Aug. 22)

Supercurrent anomalies in 4d SCFTs, University of Milano - Bicocca (May 22)

Supercurrent anomalies in 4d SCFTs, String Theory Seminar, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Mar. 14)

Supercurrent anomalies from holographic renormalization of $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauged supergravity, String Theory Seminar, Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton (Mar. 1)

Supersymmetric holographic renormalization and localization, Institut Denis Poisson, University of Tours (Feb. 2)


2016

Towards a classification of AdS$_3$ boundary conditions, Black Hole Initiative Colloquium, Harvard University (Dec. 6)

AdS$_2$ holography and non extremal black holes, Dublin Theoretical Physics Colloquium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin (Nov. 30)

AdS$_2$ holography and non extremal black holes, Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM/CSIC, Madrid (Oct. 27)

AdS$_2$ holography and non extremal black holes, HET Brown Bag Seminar, Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan (Oct. 5)

AdS$_2$ holography and non extremal black holes, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania (Sep. 26)

A goldstino at the bottom of the cascade, University of Oviedo (Apr. 13)


2015

AdS black hole thermodynamics with scalar hair, String Theory Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University (May 26)

Lifshitz scale anomalies & hyperscaling violation from holography, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile (Mar. 12)

Conformally coupled scalars and a non-perturbative $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in gauged supergravity, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile (Mar. 9)

Lifshitz scale anomalies & hyperscaling violation from holography, Special Seminar, ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, São Paulo (Feb. 26)

Lifshitz scale anomalies & hyperscaling violation from holography, Universidade de São Paulo (Feb. 24)

Lifshitz hyperscaling violating holography, Florence Theory Group, Physics Department, University of Florence (Jan. 8)


2014

Hyperscaling violating Lifshitz holography, String Theory Seminar, Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton (Dec. 3)

Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating holography with arbitrary critical exponent $z>1$, Theoretical Particle Physics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels (Apr. 2)

Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating holography with arbitrary critical exponent $z>1$, String Theory Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University (Mar. 21)

Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating holography with arbitrary critical exponent $z>1$, Department of Physics, Oxford University (Feb. 18)


2013

Holography for non-asymptotically AdS backgrounds, U. Autonòma de Barcelona (May 31)

Holography for non-asymptotically AdS backgrounds, Universidade de São Paulo (May 14)


2012

Effective theories of gravity and holography, Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM/CSIC, Madrid (Nov. 22)

A ‘double cover’ for the $SO(6)×SO(2)$ symmetric sector of $\mathcal{N}=8$ gauged supergravity in four dimensions, Theory Group Seminar, University of Barcelona (May 31)

A ‘double cover’ for the $SO(6)×SO(2)$ symmetric sector of $\mathcal{N}=8$ gauged supergravity in four dimensions, Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Crete (Mar. 23)


2011

Generalized holographic renormalization & Improved Holographic QCD, Fields and Strings Seminar, Arnold Sommerfeld Center, LMU Munich (May 26)

Regularization of variational problems at infinity and applications, String Theory Seminar, University of Amsterdam (Mar. 15)

Regularization of variational problems at infinity and applications, University of Athens (Feb. 22)

Holographic renormalization for generic Hamiltonian systems and application to Improved Holographic QCD, Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Crete (Feb. 15)


2010

The Warped, Resolved, Deformed Conifold Gets Flavoured, CERN Theory Seminar (May 4)


2009

Black Holes, Holography and Gravity, LUMS, Lahore (Apr. 2)

On the asymptotic structure of Schrödinger and Lifshitz backgrounds, String Theory Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht (Mar. 26)

Recent results in the string/SQCD duality & applications to phenomenology, DESY Theory Seminar, Hamburg (Jan. 15)


2008

Asymptotic Flatness and Holography, CERN Theory Seminar (Nov. 25)

Revisiting Asymptotic Flatness and Holography, Theoretical Physics Seminar, Laboratoire de Physique ENS de Lyon (Jan. 31)

Revisiting Asymptotic Flatness and Holography, Université Montpellier (Jan. 28)

Revisiting Asymptotic Flatness and Holography, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam (Jan. 22)


2007

AdS boundary conditions, stability and M-theory instantons, Theory Seminar, Department of Physics, Swansea University (May 1)

Multi-Trace Deformations in AdS/CFT: Exploring the Vacuum Structure of the Deformed Theory, DESY Theory Seminar, Hamburg (Feb. 7)


2006

Conformally coupled scalars & an instability of AdS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (Dec. 14)

Conformally coupled scalars & an instability of AdS, École Polytechnique, Paris (Dec. 11)

Conformally coupled scalars in AdS, Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Crete (Nov. 14)

A Multi-Trace Deformation of $D=3$ $\mathcal{N}=8$ SCFT and AdS Vacuum Decay, Department of Physics, Brown University (Sep. 14)

A Multi-Trace Deformation of $D=3$ $\mathcal{N}=8$ SCFT and AdS Vacuum Decay, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania (Sep. 11)


2005

Black Hole Thermodynamics and Holography, DESY Theory Seminar, Hamburg (Nov. 14)


2004

Correlation Functions in Holographic RG Flows, University of Groningen (Dec. 2)

Correlation Functions in Holographic RG Flows, Imperial College London (Nov. 29)

Correlation Functions in Holographic RG Flows, DAMTP, University of Cambridge (Nov. 26)

Correlation Functions in Holographic RG Flows, École Polytechnique, Paris (Nov. 16)


2003

An Alternative Approach to Holographic Renormalization, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam. (Oct. 1)

 

lectures


2018

Lectures on AdS$_2$ holography and the SYK model, Focus Workshop on Holography and Geometry of quantum Entanglement, Hanyang University, Seoul (Aug. 8 - 6)

Lectures on holographic renormalization and supersymmetry, School on Supersymmetric Localization and Holography: Black Hole Entropy and Wilson Loops, ICTP Trieste, Italy (Jul. 2 - 7)

Lectures on holographic renormalization, Tsinghua University, Beijing (Mar. 16)


2016

Lectures on Holographic Renormalization, Lecture series on “Beyond Landau Fermi liquid and BCS superconductivity near quantum criticality and Real-space renormalization group approach”, APCTP Pohang, South Korea (Jun. 6 - 18)


2015

Lectures on holographic renormalization and applications, Theoretical Frontiers in Black Holes and Cosmology, Natal, Brazil (Jun. 8 - 19)<


2013

Lectures on Holographic Renormalization, Holography 2013: Gauge/gravity duality and strongly correlated systems, APCTP Pohang, South Korea (Jun. 13 - 22)


2008

Lectures on Holographic Renormalization, Física Teórica, University of Zaragoza (May 26 - 29)