23–25 mai 2023
LAPTh
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

This meeting will gather the France-based community working in string and quantum field theory for three days of scientific exchanges on current developments in these research areas. The workshop will take place at LAPTh, Annecy, from Tuesday 23rd May at 2pm till Thursday 25th at around 2pm. The detailed program can be found here. Talks are by invitation. 

Review talks will be given by:

  • Yifei He (LPENS, Paris)
  • Severin Lüst (L2C, Montpellier)
  • Eric Perlmutter (IPhT, Saclay)

Speakers list:

  • Nejc Ceplak (IPhT, Saclay)
  • Yegor Goncharov (IDP, Tours)
  • Nafiz Ishtiaque (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette)
  • Taro Kimura (IMB, Dijon)
  • Bruno Le Floch (LPTHE, Paris)
  • Sucheta Majumdar (LPENS, Lyon)
  • Paul Marconnet (IP2I, Lyon)
  • Blagoje Oblak (CPhT, Palaiseau)
  • Valentin Reys (IPhT, Saclay)
  • Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia (CPhT, Palaiseau)
  • George Tringas (LAPTh, Annecy)
  • Alexander Tumanov (LPENS, Paris)

This meeting is an activity of IRN:QFS, the International Research Network on Quantum Fields and Strings. Previous editions of similar workshops include:

French kick-off meeting of IRN:QFS (Tours, 2021)

Théorie des Cordes en France (Paris, 2015)

 

Registration:  can be done here. It will close on April 23rd. In case of high attendance, preference will be given to the members of institutes covered by the network IRN:QFS in France.

 

Accommodation:  will be covered by the IRN:QFS network for 2 nights (23-25/05), in the limit of 50 participants. The hotel is Best Western International, 19 avenue du Rhône, Annecy.

 

Travel: Annecy can be reached by train (SNCF), bus (Flixbus) or car (including car-sharing Blablacar). Detailed information on how to access the LAPTh can be found on this page. In particular, buses connecting the station and the LAPTh are indicated on this page. Travel costs are to be covered by participants.

 

Lunch and Dinner: Lunches, as well as a workshop dinner, will be offered. Lunches will be provided at LAPTh. The workshop dinner will take place at the Brasserie de l'Impérial. To reach the dinner restaurant as a group, we will leave LAPTh and catch the Bus 1 at Campus (18:40 or 18:51), stop at Montremont and walk along Avenue de France.

 

Group picture

 

Organizing Committee:  David Andriot, Benjamin Basso, Xavier Bekaert, Dmitrii Chicherin, Laurent Gallot, Ruben Minasian, Boris Pioline, Andrea Puhm, Henning Samtleben, Piotr Tourkine.

 

Funding: IRN:QFS, LAPTh, FRIF, CPTGA