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2026 Winter School in Mathematical Physics

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Maison des Congrès

Maison des Congrès

Chem. des Grandes Isles 7 1865 Ormont-Dessus Les Diablerets Switzerland
Anton Alexeev (Universite de Geneve (CH)), Elise Raphael
Description

Programme includes

Mini-courses

  • Pavel Etingof (MIT): Analytic Langlands correspondence
  • Nikita Nikolaev (University of Birmingham): Geometric resurgence
  • Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam): Quantum chaos and low dimensional quantum gravity models

 

Talks by: TBA

Organized by

  • Anton Alekseev (UNIGE)
  • Alberto Cattaneo (UZH)
  • Giovanni Felder (ETH Zürich)
  • Elise Raphael (UNIGE)
  • Thomas Strobl (U. Lyon 1)
  • Andras Szenes (UNIGE)

 

The 2026 Winter School in Mathematical Physics is mostly aimed at PhD and postdoctoral students. Master students can submit their applications as well. Accommodation and full board are covered for all accepted participants but not travel expenses. 

Acceptance or rejection will be notified after the registration deadline (November 30th, 2025).

If you need a VISA, please contact us.

 

*Note that this event won't be streamed.

This event is sponsored by G-Research and the NCCR SwissMAP.

 

absdiabl.pdf
Exercises part 1 - Verlinde/Ambrosini.pdf
Exercises part 2 - Verlinde/Ambrosini.pdf
Les Diablerets Miini Course- Verlinde.pdf
Nikita Nikolaev slides lecture 1.pdf
Nikita Nikolaev slides lecture 2.pdf
Nikita Nikolaev slides lecture 3.pdf
Pavel Etingof Lecture 1.pdf
Pavel Etingof Lectures 1&2.pdf
Pavel Etingof Lectures 3.pdf
Slides Alessandro Giachetto.pdf
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  • Sunday 4 January
    • 19:00 → 20:30
      Dinner 1h 30m
  • Monday 5 January
    • 09:00 → 10:15
      Nikolaev: I
    • 10:15 → 10:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:45 → 11:35
      Nikolaev: Tutorial I
    • 12:00 → 13:30
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 16:10 → 16:40
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:45 → 18:00
      Verlinde: I
    • 18:00 → 19:15
      Welcome aperitif & Poster session 1h 15m
    • 19:30 → 21:00
      Dinner 1h 30m
  • Tuesday 6 January
    • 09:30 → 10:20
      Verlinde: Tutorial I
    • 10:20 → 10:45
      Coffee break 25m
    • 10:45 → 12:00
      Nikolaev: II
    • 12:15 → 13:45
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 16:15 → 16:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:45 → 17:35
      Nikolaev: Tutorial II
    • 17:40 → 18:55
      Verlinde: II
    • 19:00 → 20:30
      Dinner 1h 30m
  • Wednesday 7 January
    • 09:00 → 09:50
      Verlinde: Tutorial II
    • 09:50 → 10:15
      Coffee break 25m
    • 10:15 → 11:00
      Junior Prize I - Manuel Loparco 45m

      QFT in cosmology and beyond
      Abstract: Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is the paradigm at the basis of the modern understanding of statistical physics, particle physics and cosmology. While most progress has been made in understanding QFT at weak coupling and in flat space, many questions remain in the contexts of cosmology and strongly coupled QFT. In this talk I will report on recent progress in understanding aspects of QFT on a cosmological background with the use of representation theory. If time permits, I will also discuss on-going research on a new framework for strongly coupled QFTs, where the computation of local observables is reduced to the problem of solving an infinite set of coupled differential equations which can be systematically truncated.

    • 11:10 → 11:55
      Junior Prize II - Alessandro Giacchetto 45m

      From matrix models to LG gravity: the simplest gauge/string duality

      Abstract: Matrix models provide one of the oldest examples of a genus expansion suggestive of an underlying string theory, yet the identification of the corresponding worldsheet description has remained subtle. In this talk, I will explain how every one-cut Hermitian matrix model admits an exact reformulation as a closed string theory whose worldsheet dynamics is that of a B-twisted Landau–Ginzburg model coupled to two-dimensional topological gravity. The construction works directly in the conventional ’t Hooft limit, without invoking any double-scaling limit. The key ingredient is the spectral curve emerging from the large-N loop equations. I will show how the universal recursive structure governing matrix model correlators is naturally identified with the gravitational recursion relations of the worldsheet theory. In this framework, branch points of the spectral curve correspond to critical points of the Landau–Ginzburg superpotential, and matrix model observables map to tautological cohomology classes on the moduli space of curves. This provides a concrete and fully controlled example of gauge/string duality, in which the closed string theory and its worldsheet path integral are made completely explicit. Based on a work in progress with R. Gopakumar and E. Mazenc.

    • 12:15 → 13:45
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 17:45 → 19:00
      Etingof: I
    • 19:15 → 20:45
      Dinner 1h 30m
  • Thursday 8 January
    • 09:30 → 10:15
      Etingof: Tutorial I
    • 10:15 → 10:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:45 → 12:00
      Etingof: II
    • 12:15 → 13:45
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 17:10 → 18:00
      Nikolaev: III
    • 18:10 → 19:00
      Verlinde: III
    • 19:15 → 20:45
      Dinner - Fondue 1h 30m
  • Friday 9 January
    • 09:30 → 10:20
      Etingof: Tutorial II
    • 10:20 → 10:40
      Coffee break 20m
    • 10:40 → 11:30
      Etingof: III
    • 12:00 → 13:30
      Lunch 1h 30m
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