Amplitudes 2026

29 Jun 2026, 09:00 → 3 Jul 2026, 17:00 Europe/London

Arts 2 Lecture Theatre (QMUL)

Amplitudes 2026 will be held at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) from June 29 to July 3, 2026. This marks the 18^th installment of the annual conference series that gathers researchers interested in both the formal and practical aspects of scattering amplitudes. The topics discussed span a broad spectrum, ranging from pure mathematics to collider physics and gravitational waves.

The Amplitudes 2026 Summer School will take place the week after the conference from July 6 to July 10, 2026 at the University of Southampton.

Registration 

Registration is now closed.

Confirmed Speakers

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Daniel Baumann, Zvi Bern, Agnese Bissi, Lara Bohnenblust, Michael Borinsky, Graham Brown, Gang Chen, Dmitry Chicherin, Bo Feng, Thomas Gehrmann, Paul Heslop, Giulia Isabella, Gustav Jakobsen, Henrik Johansson, Axel Kleinschmidt, David Kosower, Arthur Lipstein, Sebastian Mizera, Donal O'Connell, Alexander Ochirov, Andrea Puhm, Grant Remmen, Francesco Riva, Michael Ruf, Canxin Shi, Marcus Spradlin, Tomasz Taylor, Piotr Tourkine, Pierre Vanhove, Cristian Vergu, Lauren Williams, Yang Zhang, Alexander Zhiboedov, Zihan Zhou, Simone Zoia

Scientific Advisory Board

Massimo Bianchi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata"), Ruth Britto (Trinity College Dublin), Lance Dixon (SLAC), Henriette Elvang (University of Michigan), Sangmin Lee (Seoul National University), Lorenzo Magnea (University of Turin), Jan Plefka (Humboldt University Berlin), Radu Roiban (Penn State University), Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis)

Local Organisers

Andreas Brandhuber, Ricardo Monteiro, Mary Thomas, Gabriele Travaglini, Congkao Wen, Chris White

Future Amplitudes Conferences

• 2027: Munich, 26-30 July 2027
• 2028: Rome

Past Amplitudes Conferences

• Seoul National University, June 16-20, 2025
• Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, June 10-14, 2024
• CERN Geneva, August 7-11, 2023
• Charles University Prague, August 8-12, 2022
• NBI Copenhagen, August 16-20, 2021
• Organized by Michigan University, hosted virtually by Brown University, May 11-15, 2020
• Trinity College Dublin, July 1-5, 2019
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, June 18-22, 2018
• University of Edinburgh, July 10-14, 2017
• Nordita Stockholm, July 4-8, 2016
• ETH Zürich, July 6-10, 2015
• IPhT Saclay, June 10-13, 2014
• Ringberg Castle, Max-Planck Institute für Physik, April 28 - May 3, 2013
• DESY Hamburg, March 5-9, 2012
• University of Michigan Ann Arbor, November 10-13, 2011
• Queen Mary University of London, May 4-7, 2010
• IPPP Durham, March 30-April 3, 2009

Funding:

This workshop has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764850 "SAGEX".

 

Amplitudes-2026-blue-poster.pdf

Amplitudes-2026-white-poster.pdf

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Monday 29 June

09:30 → 09:35 Welcoming Remarks

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Welcome-Amplitudes-2026.pdf

09:35 → 10:20 Amplitudes for Gravitational Waves

Speaker: David Kosower

David-Kosower.pdf

David-Kosower.pptx

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10:20 → 10:50 Advances in High-Precision Gravitational Scattering from Worldline QFT

Speaker: Gustav Jakobsen

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Gustav-Uhre-Jakobsen.pdf

10:50 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:45 Black Hole Response Theory and its Shockwave Limit

Speaker: Lara Bohnenblust (University of Zurich)

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Lara-Bohnenblust.pdf

Lara-Bohnenblust.pptx

11:45 → 12:15 Amplitudes and the Quest for Precision

Speaker: Michael Ruf

Michael-Ruf.pdf

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 The Hydrotope: An AI-Discovered Closed Form for Surface Water-Wave Amplitudes

Speaker: Zihan Zhou

Zihan-Zhou.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Gravitational Tidal Matching and Elliptic Curves

Speaker: Giulia Isabella

Giulia-Isabella.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Bridging Scattering Amplitudes and Black Hole Perturbation Theory —Toward a Fundamental Gravitational Action

Speaker: Gang Chen

Gang-Chen.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 16:30 Classical scattering from QFT via phase space dequantization

Speaker: Canxin Shi

Canxin-Shi.pdf

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16:30 → 17:00 The Magnus Expansion in QFT

Speaker: Graham Brown

Graham_Brown.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Rational Functions Beyond Scattering

Speaker: Donal O'Connell

Donal-OConnell.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Drinks Reception

Tuesday 30 June

09:30 → 10:15 High-Precision Predictions for Collider Physics

Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann

Thomas-Gehrmann.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Two-Loop Amplitudes for Massive Two-to-Three Processes at the LHC

Speaker: Simone Zoia (CERN)

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10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:45 Frontier of Multi-loop and Multi-leg Feynman integrals

Speaker: Yang Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)

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Yang-Zhang.pdf

11:45 → 12:15 Bootstrapping QCD amplitudes

Speaker: Dmitry Chicherin

dimitry_chicherin.pdf

12:15 → 12:25 Group Photo

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12:25 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 BH scattering in N=8 supergravity to all loops

Speaker: Henrik Johansson (Uppsala University)

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Johansson_Amplitudes_QMUL_2026.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Symbolic Reduction of Feynman Integrals via Generating Functions

Speaker: Bo Feng

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15:00 → 15:30 What can Landau Analysis do for you?

Speaker: Cristian Vergu

cristian_vergu.pdf

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15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 16:30 Tropical quantum field theory

Speaker: Michael Borinsky

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Michael-Borinsky.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Cluster Bootstrap for Cosmological Correlators

Speaker: Marcus Spradlin

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Mark-Spradlin.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 The three-loop hadronic vacuum polarization in chiral perturbation theory

Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (Institut de Physique Théorique - CEA/Saclay, France)

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pierre_vanhove.pdf

Wednesday 1 July

09:30 → 10:15 Energy correlators at finite coupling

Speaker: Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN)

Alexander-Zhiboedov.pdf

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10:15 → 10:45 Cosmological dressing rules

Speaker: Arthur Lipstein

Arthur-Lipstein.pdf

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10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:45 The Cosmological Grassmannian

Speaker: Daniel Baumann

Daniel-Baumann.pdf

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11:45 → 12:15 amplitudes before Amplitudes

A discussion on the world of amplitudes before Amplitudes

Speakers: David Dunbar, David Kosower, Lance Dixon, Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US))

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BDDK.pdf

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Thursday 2 July

09:30 → 10:15 Positivity bounds without vanishing couplings

Speaker: Francesco Riva

Francesco-Riva.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Strings from Almost Nothing

Speaker: Grant Remmen

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Grant Remmen.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:45 Analytic superspace applied to non supersymmetric CFTs

Speaker: Paul Heslop

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Paul-Heslop.pdf

11:45 → 12:15 Perturbative Yang-Mills theory in de Sitter spacetime

Speaker: Tomasz Taylor

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Tomasz-Taylor.pdf

12:15 → 12:25 Drone group photo: People's Palace

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12:25 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 From trees to loops on the celestial sphere

Speaker: Andrea Puhm

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14:30 → 15:00 Large n + L

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Gong Show

Gong-Show-part1.pdf

Gong-Show-part2.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 3 July

09:30 → 10:15 Holographic correlators and AdS amplitudes

Speaker: Agnese Bissi

Agnese Bissi.pdf

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10:15 → 10:45 Anomalies from three-point on-shell bootstrap

Speaker: Alexander Ochirov

Alex Ochirov.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:45 Algebraic underpinnings of genus-one string amplitudes

Speaker: Axel Kleinschmidt

Axel-Kleinschmidt.pdf

11:45 → 12:15 Non-perturbative scattering in higher dimensions

Speaker: Piotr Tourkine

Piotr-Tourkine.pdf

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Conjectures and counterexamples for the amplituhedron

Speaker: Lauren Williams

Lauren Williams.pdf

14:30 → 15:15 Progress at the 5th post-Minkowskian Order in Gravitational-Wave Physics

Speaker: Zvi Bern (University of California Los Angeles (US))

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Zvi-Bern.pdf

15:15 → 15:20 Closing Remarks

Closing-announcements.pdf

15:20 → 16:00 Coffee