New Frontiers of Quantum Field and Gravity

5 Jan 2026, 08:00 → 16 Jan 2026, 18:00 Asia/Shanghai

Peking University

 

In recent years, an emerging common theme in quantum field theories and gravity is the exploration of Lorentzian methods and scattering data at asymptotic infinity to uncover fundamental properties of underlying theories. This approach manifests in diverse areas, including the study of scattering amplitudes and the S-matrix in gauge and gravity theories, the exploration of Lorentzian methods in conformal field theories, the use of asymptotic data for integrable systems, the analysis of gravitational waves from black hole mergers and energy flow from particle collisions. This program will bring together leading experts to discuss current progress and outstanding challenges in amplitudes, conformal bootstrap, energy correlators, gravitational waves, integrability, and S-matrix bootstrap. The goal is to foster discussion and catalyze new collaborations between these subfields, as well as to strengthen the dialogue between theory and experiment, paving the way for new developments.

 

The structure of the program is as follows:

Week 1 (Jan 5, 2026 -- Jan 9, 2026) : Dedicated lecture sessions on the aforementioned topics.

Week 2 (Jan 12, 2026 -- Jan 16, 2026): Research talks highlighting the latest advancements in these areas.

Registration Fee for Week 2: 1500RMB (Faculty/ Postdoctral), 1000RMB (Student)

Course lecturers on the first week:

Simon Caron-Huot (McGill)

 

Stefano De Angelis (Saclay)

 

Denis Karateev (Geneva U.)

 

Shota Komatsu (CERN)

 

Ian Moult (Yale)

 

.....

 

Invited Speakers (to be confirmed):

Benjamin Basso (Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris)

Cyuan-Han Chang (U. of Chicago)

Hao Chen (MIT)

Miguel Correia (McGill)

Hadleigh Frost (IAS, Princeton)

Nikolay Gromov (King’s College London)

Johanness Henn (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Giulia Isabella (UCLA)

David Kosower (Saclay)

Pier Monni (CERN)

Donal O'Connell (Edinburgh)

Jan Plefka (Humboldt U., Berlin)

Jiaxin Qiao (EPFL)

Francesco Riva (Geneva U.)

Radu Roiban (ETH-ITS and Penn State) 

Junchen Rong (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT)

Paul Ryan (DESY)

Andrey Sadofyev (IKERBASQUE, Spain)

Ning Su (MIT and Caltech)

Gherardo Vita (CERN)

Hongbin Wang (Southeast U.)

Tianheng Wang (Seoul National U.)

Congkao Wen (Queen Mary, U. of London)

Junbao Wu (Tianjin U.)

Kai Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Zechuan Zheng (Perimeter Institute)

De-liang Zhong (Imperial Coll., London)

Shuang-Yong Zhou (USTC)

......

 

Organizers:

Song He (ITP, CAS)

Yifei He (CNRS)

Yunfeng Jiang (Southeast U.)

Fei Teng (Fudan U.)

Xinan Zhou (KITS)

HuaXing Zhu (Peking U.)

Program Secretary:

Zeyu Li (Peking U.)

Lv Lv (Peking U.)

 

Sponsors:

Theoretical Physics Special Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China

Center for High Energy Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University

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Monday, 12 January

09:00 → 10:20 Integ.

09:00 TBA

Speaker: Nikolay Gromov (King's College London)

09:40 TBA

Speaker: Junbao Wu (Tianjin University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:10 Amp

10:50 TBA

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

11:30 Squared Amplitudes in SYM and ABJM

Speaker: Yichao Tang (ITP-CAS)

11:50 Hidden Structures in Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Qu Cao (Zhejiang Universiy)

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 EEC

14:00 Seeing through the confinement screen

Speaker: Cyuan-Han Chang (University of Chicago)

14:40 Evidence of analyticity in spin from collider physics

Speaker: Hao Chen (MIT)

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 17:10 Grav.

15:50 TBA

Speaker: Canxin Shi (ITP-CAS)

16:30 Conservative binary dynamics beyond Einstein

Speaker: Hongbin Wang (Southeast University)

Tuesday, 13 January

09:00 → 10:20 Grav.

09:00 TBA

Speaker: David A. Kosower (IPhT, CEA-Saclay)

09:40 TBA

Speaker: Giacomo Brunello (Scuola Normale Superiore)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:10 S-Mat.

10:50 Long is the path, close is the goal: finite-coupling effects on positivity bounds

Speaker: Francesco Riva (Geneva University)

11:30 TBA

Speaker: Giulia Isabella (UCLA)

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 EEC

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Gherardo Vita (CERN)

14:40 TBA

Speaker: Kyle Lee (Yale University)

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 16:30 Conf.

15:50 Irrational CFTs from coupled anyon chains?

Speaker: Junchen Rong (CPhT, École Polytechnique)

16:30 → 17:10 Integ.

16:30 High-Rank Structure Constants and Separation of Variables in planar N=4 SYM

Speaker: Paul Ryan (DESY)

Wednesday, 14 January

09:00 → 10:20 Amp

09:00 TBA

Speaker: Johannes Henn (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

09:40 Applying Color-Kinematics duality in pure YM at three loops

Speaker: Gang Yang (ITP, CAS)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:10 Conf.

10:50 TBA

Speaker: Ning Su (Tsinghua University)

11:30 Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude in AdS3

Speaker: Deliang Zhong (Imperial College London)

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 Grav.

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Donal O'Connell (University of Edinburgh)

14:40 TBA

Speaker: Stefano De Angelis (Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay)

15:20 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Colloquium

16:00 TBA

Speaker: David A. Kosower (IPhT, CEA-Saclay)

Thursday, 15 January

09:00 → 10:20 S-Mat.

09:00 TBA

Speaker: Denis Karateev (University of Geneva)

09:40 TBA

Speaker: Miguel Correia (McGill University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:10 Integ.

10:50 TBA

Speaker: Benjamin Basso (ENS, Paris, LPTENS)

11:30 Giant graviton integrated correlator at large N made simple

Speaker: Congkao Wen (Queen Mary University of London)

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 EEC

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Kai Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

14:40 The structure of energy correlators in HIC

Speaker: Andrey Sadofyev (UPV/EHU & Ikerbasque)

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 17:10 Conf.

15:50 Universality of the Microcanonical Entropy at Large Spin

Speaker: Jiaxin Qiao (IPMU)

16:30 The analytic functional in the conformal bootstrap

Speaker: Zechuan Zheng (Perimeter Institute)

18:00 → 20:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 16 January

09:00 → 10:20 Grav.

09:00 TBA

Speaker: Radu Roiban (ETH Zurich and Pennsylvania State University)

09:40 TBA

Speaker: Tianheng Wang (Seoul National University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:10 S-Mat.

10:50 Primal S-matrix bootstrap with dispersion relations

Speaker: Shuangyong Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China)

11:30 Gauge Theory Bootstrap: predicting pion dynamics from QCD

Speaker: Yifei He (CNRS)

12:10 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:30 Free Discussion