Quantum Dynamics at Ghent 2026

26 Jan 2026, 00:00 → 30 Jan 2026, 15:00 Europe/Brussels

Ghent University - Campus Sterre - S9

After the success of Quantum Dynamics at Ghent 2025, we will meet again in January 2026 to discuss the state of the art in nonequilibrium physics.

Stay tuned for the final participant list and timetable!

Organizers: Xin An, Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, and Clemens Werthmann

Monday 26 January

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 → 10:45 Welcome & Introduction

10:45 → 11:30 TBA

Speaker: Pawel Caputa

11:30 → 12:15 Nielsen and Krylov complexity

Speaker: Ben Craps

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:00 Krylov Complexity from the Partition Function

Speaker: Tim Schumann

14:00 → 14:45 TBA

Speaker: Mengting Wang

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:00 Holographic black hole formation and scrambling in time-ordered correlators

Speaker: Adrián Sánchez Garrido

Tuesday 27 January

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 → 10:45 TBA

Speaker: Jutho Haegeman

10:45 → 11:30 TBA

Speaker: Mari Carmen Bañuls

11:30 → 12:15 Let's talk about attractors (again)

Speaker: Michał Spaliński

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:00 Quantum dynamics at short times

Speaker: Tilman Enss

14:00 → 14:45 TBA

Speaker: Matisse De Lescluze

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:00 Prethermalization and quantum scars in cavity-coupled Rydberg arrays

Speaker: Alex Mikheev

Wednesday 28 January

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 → 10:45 Operator product expansion and thermal holography

Speaker: Andrei Parnachev

10:45 → 11:30 Universal thermalisation dynamics in (1+1)d QFT

Speaker: Richard A. Davison

11:30 → 11:55 TBA

Speaker: Chadwick Van Hoorickx

12:00 → 13:00 Conference lunch

13:00 → 18:00 Excursion to Brugge

Thursday 29 January

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 → 10:45 Holographic pseudospectra and diffusion

Speaker: David García Fariña

10:45 → 11:30 Orthogonality and completeness for black hole perturbations

Speaker: Ben Withers

11:30 → 12:15 TBA

Speaker: Gabriel Denicol

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:00 TBA

Speaker: Luca Tagliacozzo

14:00 → 14:45 TBA

Speaker: Jacopo de Nardis

14:45 → 15:05 Coffee break

15:05 → 15:50 TBA

Speaker: Robbe Brants

16:00 → 17:00 Annabelle Bohrdt (Department Theory Colloquium)

Friday 30 January

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 → 10:45 TBA

Speaker: Fabio Ori

10:45 → 11:10 TBA

Speaker: Federica Colombo

11:10 → 11:55 TBA

Speaker: Alessio Lerose

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch