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Pathways to Quantum Black Holes: from Effective Theories to Exact Methods

May 11, 2026 - May 15, 2026



Speakers
Stefano Antonini (UC Berkeley)
Iosif Bena (IPhT Saclay)
Pietro Benetti Genolini (Geneva U.)
Jan Boruch (UC Berkeley)
Kasia Budzik (Harvard U.)
Alejandro Cabo-Bizet (U. of Torino)
Chi-Ming Chang (Tsinghua U.)
Sunjin Choi (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo)
Sera Cremonini (Lehigh U.)
Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
Daniel Harlow (MIT)
Matthew Heydeman (Harvard U.)
Junho Hong (Sogang U.)
Gary Horowitz (UC Santa Barbara)
Seok Kim (Seoul National U.)
Eunwoo Lee (TIFR Mumbai)
Ji Hoon Lee (ETH Zurich)
Dario Martelli (U. of Torino)
Emil Martinec (U. of Chicago)
Samir Mathur (Ohio State U.)
Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR Mumbai)
Leopoldo Pando Zayas (U. of Michigan)
Eric Perlmutter (IPhT Saclay)
Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis)
Alejandro Ruiperez (U. of Padova)
Joan Simon (U. of Edinburgh)
Chiara Toldo (ULB)
Marija Tomasevic (CERN)
David Turton (U. of Southampton)
Amitabh Virmani (Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Mykhaylo Usatyuk (KITP Santa Barbara)
Alberto Zaffaroni (U. of Milano-Bicocca)

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




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Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
May 11, 2026 - 11:15-11:50 Gary Horowitz Unusually large tidal forces in unexpected places Seminar Slides
May 11, 2026 - 11:50-12:25 Sera Cremonini Quantum Corrections to η/s from JT Gravity Seminar Slides
May 11, 2026 - 14:30-15:05 Leopoldo Pando Zayas Low-Temperature Quantum Corrections in Holography Seminar Slides
May 11, 2026 - 15:05-15:40 Marija Tomašević How traversable is a traversable wormhole? Seminar Slides
May 11, 2026 - 16:20-16:55 Junho Hong Type IIB Supergravity Action and Holography Seminar Slides
May 11, 2026 - 16:55-17:30 Mykhaylo Usatyuk Charged particle production and superradiance Seminar Slides
May 12, 2026 - 10:00-10:35 Emil Martinec Brane Stars and Black Holes Seminar Slides
May 12, 2026 - 11:15-11:50 Iosif Bena Brane Sandwiches: from Microstate Geometries to Conformal Interfaces and Walls Seminar Slides
May 12, 2026 - 11:50-12:25 Jan Boruch Multicentered black hole saddles for supersymmetric indices Seminar Slides
May 12, 2026 - 14:30-15:05 Alejandro Ruipérez Bubbling saddles of the gravitational index Seminar Slides
May 12, 2026 - 15:05-15:40 Amitabh Virmani Index saddle for supersymmetric F1-P black ring Seminar Slides
May 12, 2026 - 16:20-16:55 Pietro Benetti Genolini Equivariant localization in supergravity Seminar Slides
May 12, 2026 - 16:55-17:30 Dario Martelli Equivariant localization for five-dimensional supergravity Seminar Slides
May 13, 2026 - 10:00-10:35 Shiraz Minwalla The Entropy of CFTs at large spin Seminar Slides
May 13, 2026 - 11:15-11:50 Chi-Ming Chang Fortuity and Quantum Corrections to the Q-cohomology Seminar Slides
May 13, 2026 - 11:50-12:25 Alberto Zaffaroni Fortuity in ABJM Seminar Slides
May 13, 2026 - 14:30-15:05 Alejandro Cabo-Bizet Why Indices Count the Total Number of Black Hole Microstates (at large N) Seminar Slides
May 13, 2026 - 15:05-15:40 Sunjin Choi Hairy black holes in AdS Seminar Slides
May 13, 2026 - 16:20-16:55 Seok Kim Quantum black hole hairs Seminar Slides
May 13, 2026 - 16:55-17:30 Eunwoo Lee Aspects of the BMN model and its variations Seminar Slides
May 14, 2026 - 10:00-10:35 Samir Mathur Universal BKL-type chaotic metric outside an ECO Seminar Slides
May 14, 2026 - 11:15-11:50 David Turton Probing the microstructure of heavy states in String Theory Seminar Slides
May 14, 2026 - 11:50-12:25 Joan Simón Comments on Spread Complexity Seminar Slides
May 14, 2026 - 14:30-15:05 Ji Hoon Lee Polar states in AdS3 holography Seminar Slides
May 14, 2026 - 15:05-15:40 Daniel Harlow A landscape puzzle in AdS/CFT Seminar
May 14, 2026 - 16:20-16:55 Kasia Budzik Finite N indices from branes and negative branes Seminar Slides
May 14, 2026 - 16:55-17:30 Matthew Heydeman Black Holes with Extended Supersymmetry and their Status in String Theory Seminar Slides
May 15, 2026 - 10:00-10:35 Netta Engelhardt A Quantum Singularity Theorem for the Evaporating Black Hole Seminar Slides
May 15, 2026 - 11:15-11:50 Mukund Rangamani Spectral function asymptotics & the black hole singularity in holography Seminar Slides
May 15, 2026 - 11:50-12:25 Stefano Antonini Comments on the Hartle-Hawking proposal and de Sitter universes from AdS boundary conditions Seminar Slides
May 15, 2026 - 14:30-15:05 Chiara Toldo Quantum corrections to the thermodynamics of Kerr and warped black holes. Seminar Slides
May 15, 2026 - 15:05-15:40 Eric Perlmutter Atle and Bernhard Jump Into a Black Hole Seminar