Iberian Strings 2026

Contribution List

1. Counting states in quantum gravity

Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsilvania)

21/01/2026, 09:00

3. A new String Field Theory

Chris M Hull (Imperial College)

21/01/2026, 10:00

4. Integrability for non-AdS holography

Sibylle Driezen

21/01/2026, 11:00

5. Exact BPS black hole microstate counting from holographic conformal quantum mechanics

Gabriel Cardoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)

21/01/2026, 11:30

6. Unveiling horizons in quantum critical collapse

Marija Tomasevic (CERN)

21/01/2026, 12:00

8. Non-invertible symmetries of Non-Linear Sigma Models

Guillermo Arias-Tamargo (Imperial College London)

21/01/2026, 12:30

9. Floquet SYK wormholes

Martí Berenguer Mimó (IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

21/01/2026, 12:45

7. Probing new physics with black hole ringdown

Pablo A. Cano (Universidad de Murcia)

21/01/2026, 14:45

10. Accelerating black holes in higher-derivative theories of gravity

Marina David (KU Leuven)

21/01/2026, 15:45

11. Entanglement asymmetry and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas (SISSA)

21/01/2026, 16:15

34. Emergent strings from Quantum Field Theory

Guim Planella Planas (Utrecht University)

21/01/2026, 17:07

Gong Show

12. Quantum complexity: from black holes to quantum circuits and chaos

Shira Chapman (Ben Gurion University)

22/01/2026, 09:00

13. Far-from equilibrium inflation

Jorge Casalderrey (Universitat de Barcelona)

22/01/2026, 10:00

14. The Hilbert space of gauge theories: group averaging and the quantization of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity

Elba Alonso-Monsalve (MIT)

22/01/2026, 11:00

15. Closed universes in holography

Alejandro Vilar López (University of British Columbia)

22/01/2026, 11:30

16. BKL dynamics inside higher-dimensional AdS black holes

Ángel Murcia (Universitat de Barcelona)

22/01/2026, 12:00

17. Remarks on Quadratic Gravity

Luca Buoninfante (IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

22/01/2026, 12:30

18. The Green-Schwarz mechanism and its non-relativistic limit

Eric Lescano (Wroclaw University)

22/01/2026, 12:45

22. Universal sectors in 2d near-extremal QFTs

Stephane Detournay (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

22/01/2026, 14:45

32. Microscopic description of critical bubbles from holography

Javier Subils (Utrecht University)

22/01/2026, 15:15

19. Chaos and complexity on the (non-)planar worldsheet

Saskia Demulder (CUNEF Universidad)

22/01/2026, 15:45

20. The black hole-tower correspondence

Alvaro Herraez (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

22/01/2026, 16:15

21. Connecting boundary entropy and effective central charge at interfaces

Carlos Hoyos (Universidad de Oviedo)

22/01/2026, 17:00

23. Holographic QFT dynamics on curved spacetimes

Francesco Nitti (APC Paris)

22/01/2026, 17:30

24. Quantum features of a Λ>0 universe

Dionysios Anninos (King's College London)

23/01/2026, 09:00

25. No shift, Sherlock

José Calderón Infante (Caltech)

23/01/2026, 10:00

26. New developments in 5d gauge theories

Amihay Hanany (Imperial College)

23/01/2026, 11:00

27. On deformations of AdS3 solutions: G-structures and supersymmetric probe branes

Anayeli Ramirez (KU Leuven)

23/01/2026, 11:30

28. Higher-form symmetries in supergravity

Tomas Ortin (IFT, CSIC/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

23/01/2026, 12:00

29. Worldsheet theory of 2d QCD

Adi Armoni (Swansea University)

23/01/2026, 12:30

30. Quantum transparency of near-extremal black holes

Stefano Trezzi (Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona (ICCUB))

23/01/2026, 12:45

31. Matrix models and holography

Shota Komatsu (CERN)

23/01/2026, 14:45

33. Holographic shear correlators at low temperatures, and quantum η/s

Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete)

23/01/2026, 15:45

2. Categorical symmetries and applications

Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford University)