Iberian Strings 2026
from
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 (08:30)
to
Friday, 23 January 2026 (19:00)
Monday, 19 January 2026
Tuesday, 20 January 2026
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
08:30
Opening
Opening
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
Counting states in quantum gravity
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Vijay Balasubramanian
(
University of Pennsilvania
)
Counting states in quantum gravity
Vijay Balasubramanian
(
University of Pennsilvania
)
09:00 - 10:00
10:00
A new String Field Theory
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Chris M Hull
(
Imperial College
)
A new String Field Theory
Chris M Hull
(
Imperial College
)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Integrability for non-AdS holography
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Sibylle Driezen
Integrability for non-AdS holography
Sibylle Driezen
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Exact BPS black hole microstate counting from holographic conformal quantum mechanics
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Gabriel Cardoso
(
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
)
Exact BPS black hole microstate counting from holographic conformal quantum mechanics
Gabriel Cardoso
(
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
)
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
Unveiling horizons in quantum critical collapse
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Marija Tomasevic
(
CERN
)
Unveiling horizons in quantum critical collapse
Marija Tomasevic
(
CERN
)
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
Non-invertible symmetries of Non-Linear Sigma Models
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Guillermo Arias-Tamargo
(
Imperial College London
)
Non-invertible symmetries of Non-Linear Sigma Models
Guillermo Arias-Tamargo
(
Imperial College London
)
12:30 - 12:45
12:45
Floquet SYK wormholes
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Martí Berenguer Mimó
(
IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
)
Floquet SYK wormholes
Martí Berenguer Mimó
(
IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
)
12:45 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:45
14:45
Probing new physics with black hole ringdown
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Pablo A. Cano
(
Universidad de Murcia
)
Probing new physics with black hole ringdown
Pablo A. Cano
(
Universidad de Murcia
)
14:45 - 15:45
15:45
Accelerating black holes in higher-derivative theories of gravity
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Marina David
(
KU Leuven
)
Accelerating black holes in higher-derivative theories of gravity
Marina David
(
KU Leuven
)
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
Entanglement asymmetry and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas
(
SISSA
)
Entanglement asymmetry and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas
(
SISSA
)
16:15 - 16:30
16:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Gong Show
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions
17:07
Emergent strings from Quantum Field Theory
-
Guim Planella Planas
(
Utrecht University
)
18:45
Reception
Reception
18:45 - 20:45
Thursday, 22 January 2026
09:00
Quantum complexity: from black holes to quantum circuits and chaos
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Shira Chapman
(
Ben Gurion University
)
Quantum complexity: from black holes to quantum circuits and chaos
Shira Chapman
(
Ben Gurion University
)
09:00 - 10:00
10:00
Far-from equilibrium inflation
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Jorge Casalderrey
(
Universitat de Barcelona
)
Far-from equilibrium inflation
Jorge Casalderrey
(
Universitat de Barcelona
)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break & Group photo
Coffee break & Group photo
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
The Hilbert space of gauge theories: group averaging and the quantization of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity
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Elba Alonso-Monsalve
(
MIT
)
The Hilbert space of gauge theories: group averaging and the quantization of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity
Elba Alonso-Monsalve
(
MIT
)
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Closed universes in holography
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Alejandro Vilar López
(
University of British Columbia
)
Closed universes in holography
Alejandro Vilar López
(
University of British Columbia
)
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
BKL dynamics inside higher-dimensional AdS black holes
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Ángel Murcia
(
Universitat de Barcelona
)
BKL dynamics inside higher-dimensional AdS black holes
Ángel Murcia
(
Universitat de Barcelona
)
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
Remarks on Quadratic Gravity
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Luca Buoninfante
(
IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
)
Remarks on Quadratic Gravity
Luca Buoninfante
(
IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
)
12:30 - 12:45
12:45
The Green-Schwarz mechanism and its non-relativistic limit
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Eric Lescano
(
Wroclaw University
)
The Green-Schwarz mechanism and its non-relativistic limit
Eric Lescano
(
Wroclaw University
)
12:45 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:45
14:45
Universal sectors in 2d near-extremal QFTs
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Stephane Detournay
(
Université Libre de Bruxelles
)
Universal sectors in 2d near-extremal QFTs
Stephane Detournay
(
Université Libre de Bruxelles
)
14:45 - 15:15
15:15
Microscopic description of critical bubbles from holography
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Javier Subils
(
Utrecht University
)
Microscopic description of critical bubbles from holography
Javier Subils
(
Utrecht University
)
15:15 - 15:45
15:45
Chaos and complexity on the (non-)planar worldsheet
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Saskia Demulder
(
CUNEF Universidad
)
Chaos and complexity on the (non-)planar worldsheet
Saskia Demulder
(
CUNEF Universidad
)
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
The black hole-tower correspondence
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Alvaro Herraez
(
Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
The black hole-tower correspondence
Alvaro Herraez
(
Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
16:15 - 16:30
16:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Connecting boundary entropy and effective central charge at interfaces
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Carlos Hoyos
(
Universidad de Oviedo
)
Connecting boundary entropy and effective central charge at interfaces
Carlos Hoyos
(
Universidad de Oviedo
)
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
Holographic QFT dynamics on curved spacetimes
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Francesco Nitti
(
APC Paris
)
Holographic QFT dynamics on curved spacetimes
Francesco Nitti
(
APC Paris
)
17:30 - 18:00
20:30
Banquet
Banquet
20:30 - 23:30
Friday, 23 January 2026
09:00
Quantum features of a Λ>0 universe
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Dionysios Anninos
(
King's College London
)
Quantum features of a Λ>0 universe
Dionysios Anninos
(
King's College London
)
09:00 - 10:00
10:00
No shift, Sherlock
-
José Calderón Infante
(
Caltech
)
No shift, Sherlock
José Calderón Infante
(
Caltech
)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
New developments in 5d gauge theories
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Amihay Hanany
(
Imperial College
)
New developments in 5d gauge theories
Amihay Hanany
(
Imperial College
)
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
On deformations of AdS3 solutions: G-structures and supersymmetric probe branes
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Anayeli Ramirez
(
KU Leuven
)
On deformations of AdS3 solutions: G-structures and supersymmetric probe branes
Anayeli Ramirez
(
KU Leuven
)
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
Higher-form symmetries in supergravity
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Tomas Ortin
(
IFT, CSIC/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
)
Higher-form symmetries in supergravity
Tomas Ortin
(
IFT, CSIC/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
)
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
Worldsheet theory of 2d QCD
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Adi Armoni
(
Swansea University
)
Worldsheet theory of 2d QCD
Adi Armoni
(
Swansea University
)
12:30 - 12:45
12:45
Quantum transparency of near-extremal black holes
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Stefano Trezzi
(
Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona (ICCUB)
)
Quantum transparency of near-extremal black holes
Stefano Trezzi
(
Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona (ICCUB)
)
12:45 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:45
14:45
Matrix models and holography
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Shota Komatsu
(
CERN
)
Matrix models and holography
Shota Komatsu
(
CERN
)
14:45 - 15:45
15:45
Holographic shear correlators at low temperatures, and quantum η/s
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Elias Kiritsis
(
University of Crete
)
Holographic shear correlators at low temperatures, and quantum η/s
Elias Kiritsis
(
University of Crete
)
15:45 - 16:15