Current Problems in Theoretical Physics Quantum Field Theory, Loop Quantum Gravity,
Noncommutative Geometry, Strings & Gravitational waves
  • A printable version of the timetable can be found here.


    • Friday, 18th March

  • 14:30 - 15:00 Registration

  • 15:00 - 15:40 Andrea Campoleoni
  • Higher spins in three dimensions and BMS symmetry
  • 15:40 - 16:20 Massimo Taronna
  • Higher Spins, Holography and Locality: The Bulk Side

  • 16.20 - 16.40 Coffee break

  • 16:40 - 17:30 Michela Petrini
  • Geometrical structures in supergravity and string theory
  • 17:30 - 18:10 Stefano Massai
  • Non-geometric heterotic vacua from F-theory
  • 18:10 - 18:50 Patricia Ritter
  • Higher gauge theory interpretation of an M5-brane model


    • Saturday, 19th March

  • 09:30 - 10:20 Alberto Zaffaroni
  • AdS4 black holes and 3d gauge theories
  • 10:20 - 11:00 Fabrizio Nieri
  • Deformed Virasoro algebras in supersymmetric gauge theories

  • 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

  • 11:30 - 12:10 Lorenzo Di Pietro
  • Universal Properties of Cylinder Partition Functions
  • 12:10 - 12:50 Guglielmo Lockhart
  • Instanton strings of minimal 6d SCFTs

  • 12.50 - 15.00 Lunch

  • 15:00 - 15:50 Camillo Imbimbo
  • Some Applications of Topological Gravity to Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories
  • 15:50 - 16:30 Marco Bertolini
  • A new class of (0,2) superconformal field theories

  • 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break

  • 17:00 - 17:40 Luigi Tizzano
  •  6d fixed points from holography
  • 17:40 - 18:20 Simone Giacomelli
  • T-branes through 3d mirror symmetry


    • Sunday, 20th March

  • 09:30 - 10:20 Dimitri Sorokin
  • Spontaneously broken supergravity, constrained superfields and branes
  • 10:20 - 11:00 Marco Scalisi
  •  Inflation and attractors in supergravity

  • 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

  • 11:30 - 12:10 Marco Chiodaroli
  •  Scattering amplitudes in N=2 Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills-Einstein supergravities
  • 12:10 - 12:50 Alessandra Gnecchi
  •  Black branes in AdS4 and a quantum critical point

  • 12.50 - 15.00 Lunch

  • 15.00 - 15.45 Giovanni Landi
  • Line bundles over noncommutative spaces
  • 15.45 - 16.30 Francesco D’Andrea
  • Non-associative deformations of circle bundles

  • 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break

  • 17.00 - 17.45 Rita Fioresi
  • Quantum Homogeneous Spaces and Superspaces
  • 17.45 - 18.30 Pietro Antonio Grassi
  • The Geometry of Supermanifolds and Applications


    • Monday, 21st march

  • 09.30 - 10.15 Paolo Aschieri
  • Cartan's structure equations and Levi-Civita connection in Noncommutative Geometry from Drinfeld Twist
  • 10.15 - 11.00 Chiara Pagani
  • A sheaf theoretic description of quantum principal bundles

  • 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

  • 11.30 - 12.15 Francesco Bonechi
  • Quantum projective spaces from quantization of integrable models
  • 12.15 - 13.00 Alberto Cattaneo
  • Perturbative BV-BFV theories on manifolds with boundary

  • 13.00 - 15.00 Lunch

  • 15.00 - 15.45 Emanuele Alesci
  • Loop Quantum Gravity
  • 15.45 - 16.30 Daniele Oriti
  • Group field theory: foundations and emergent cosmology

  • 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break

  • 17.00 - 17.50 Daniele Pranzetti
  • Black hole entropy in loop quantum gravity

  • 17.50 - 19.00 Round table and general discussion on Quantum Gravity


    • Tuesday, 22nd March

  • 09.30 - 10.15 Goffredo Chirco
  • Exploring the pre-geometric quantum texture of space-time with entanglement
  • 10.15 - 11.00 Francesco Cianfrani
  • Cosmological implications of quantum geometry in LQG

  • 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

  • 11.30 - 12.15 Andrea Dapor
  • Effective Spacetimes from Quantum Cosmology
  • 12.15 - 13.00 Riccardo Martini
  • Functional Renormalisation Group analysis of Tensorial Group Field Theories

  • 13.00 - 15.00 Lunch

  • 15:00 - 15:30 – Fulvio Ricci
  • GW150914: the first direct detection of gravitational waves
  • 15:30 - 15:55 – Sebastiano Bernuzzi
  • How loud are neutron star mergers in the gravitational wave window?
  • 15:55 - 16:20 – Paolo Pani
  • Tidal deformations of compact objects and their impact for gravitational-wave astronomy

  • 16:20 - 16:50 – Coffee break

  • 16:50 - 17:15 – Andrea Maselli
  • Relativistic tidal effects in non standard Kerr space-time
  • 17:15 - -17:40 – Leonardo Gualtieri
  • Testing gravity with gravitational wave observations
  • 17:40 - 18:05 – Enrico Barausse
  • Gravitational waves from supermassive black-hole binaries
  • 18:05 - 18:30 – Alessandro Nagar
  • Interfacing effective-one-body and numerical relativity results for coalescing binaries


    • Wednesday, 23rd March

  • 9:30 - 9:55 – Paola Leaci
  • Gravitational Wave Astronomy with second generation interferometric detectors
  • 9:55 - 10:20 – Cristiano Palomba
  • Search for continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars in the advanced detector era
  • 10:20 - 10:45 – Salvatore Capozziello
  • Massive, massless and ghost modes of gravitational waves from higher-order gravity

  • 10:45 - 11:15 – Coffee break

  • 11:15 - 11:40 – Mariafelicia De Laurentis
  • Pulsar dynamics in general black-hole spacetimes: spherically symmetric case
  • 11:40 - 12:05 – Riccardo Ciolfi
  • Electromagnetic emission from long-lived BNS merger remnants
  • 12:05 - 12:30 – Francesco Maione
  • Modeling Equal and Unequal Mass Binary Neutron Star Mergers Using Public Codes
  • 12:30 - 12:45 – Alessandro Lovato
  • From few to many: the effective interaction approach
  • 12:45 - 13:05 – Giovanni Camelio
  • Gravitational waves from proto-neutron stars evolution
  • 13:05 - 13:30 – Giuseppe Greco
  • Multi-Messenger Astronomy with gravitational waves and electromagnetic transients