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Focus Week

GPI@GGI: recent developments on the Gravitational Path Integral

Apr 20, 2026 - Apr 24, 2026



Speakers
Panos Betzios (Gent U.)
Giulio Bonelli (SISSA Trieste)
Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College)
Silvia Georgescu (King's College London)
Elliott Gesteau (MIT and Harvard U.)
Alessandra Gnecchi (INFN Padova)
Kiril Hristov (Sofiya U. and INR)
Oliver Janssen (EPFL Lausanne)
Bob Knighton (DAMTP Cambridge)
Thomas Mertens (Gent U.)
Olga Papadoulaki (CPHT Ecole Polytechnique)
Klaas Parmentier (Columbia U.)
Muktajyoti Saha (ICTS Bangalore)
Enrico Turetta (Kyung Hee U.)


Organizers
Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven)
Davide Cassani (INFN Padova)
Alejandra Castro (DAMTP Cambridge)
Roberto Emparan (ICREA and University of Barcelona)
Luca Iliesiu (UC Berkeley)
Sameer Murthy (King’s College London)
Ashoke Sen (ICTS Bangalore)



Contact
davide.cassani@pd.infn.it

Main event
Pathways to Quantum Black Holes: from Effective Theories to Exact Methods (Workshop) - Apr 13, 2026






Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
Apr 20, 2026 - 10:30-11:15 Jerome Gauntlett Equivariant Localization for Higher Derivative Supergravity Seminar Video
Apr 20, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 Kiril Hristov Supersymmetric observables from equivariant volumes Seminar Video
Apr 20, 2026 - 14:15-15:00 Enrico Turetta Euclidean saddles for the 5D gravitational index Seminar Video
Apr 21, 2026 - 10:30-11:15 Olga Papadoulaki Quantum Corrections Near Extremality for flat and AdS asymptotics Seminar Video
Apr 21, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 Giulio Bonelli Solving BHPT via classical CFT blocks Seminar Video
Apr 21, 2026 - 14:15-15:00 Thomas Mertens Quantum groups in lower-dimensional gravity models Seminar Video
Apr 22, 2026 - 10:30-11:15 Klaas Parmentier Late-Time Decay in the IP Matrix Model Seminar Video
Apr 22, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 Silvia Georgescu Black holes in conformal boxes Seminar Video
Apr 22, 2026 - 14:15-15:00 Panos Betzios Wormholes and Cosmology Seminar Video
Apr 23, 2026 - 10:30-11:15 Bob Knighton What's the Matter with 3D Gravity? Seminar Video
Apr 23, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 Oliver Janssen A discussion about KSW Seminar Video
Apr 23, 2026 - 14:15-15:00 Alessandra Gnecchi Entanglement phase space for rotating black holes from double holography Seminar Video
Apr 24, 2026 - 10:30-11:15 Elliott Gesteau When can spacetime emerge? Seminar Video
Apr 24, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 Muktajyoti Saha (Quantum) evolution of de Sitter black holes Seminar Video