École Normale Supérieure Summer Institute 2025

Jun 19, 2025, 9:00 AM → Jun 27, 2025, 5:00 PM Europe/Paris

ENS

Boris Pioline (LPTHE, Sorbonne Université et CNRS), Costas Bachas (ENS, Paris), Giuseppe Policastro (LPTENS), Kallia Petraki (ENS and Sorbonne University), Luca SANTONI (APC, Paris), Marc Henneaux (Université Libre de Bruxelles & Collège de France), Miguel Fernandes Paulos (Ecole Normale Superieure), Raffaele DAgnolo

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 2025 edition of the ENS Summer Institute. The ENS Summer Institute aims to cover a broad spectrum of topics in high-energy physics and cosmology, and provide ample opportunities for discussion. 

This year, it will include topics on holography, quantum gravity and particle physics.

Special event: On 25/06, we will celebrate the distinguished career and scientific legacy of our esteemed colleague, Curtis Calan, on the occasion of his retirement, organised jointly with the ENS biophysics group.

 

 

Location: 75005 Paris

19-20 June: 3 rue d'Ulm, ground floor lecture room (Collège de France)

23-26 June: 24 rue Lhomond, room Conf IV, 2nd floor, Erasme building (LPENS)

27 June: 24 rue Lhomond, room L378, 3rd floor, Lhomond building (LPENS)

 

Recent past editions: 2024, 2023, 2018, 2017. 

Thu, June 19

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Categorical Symmetries and Applications: from phases of matter to cold atoms

Speaker: Sakura Schafer-Nameki

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Late-time saturation of black hole complexity

Speaker: Larus Thorlacius

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

Fri, June 20

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM A survey of the Yang-Mills millenium prize problem

Speaker: Michael Douglas

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Smooth extremal horizons are the exception, not the rule

Speaker: Gary Horowitz

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

Mon, June 23

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Operators in Lorentzian CFTs

Speaker: Philip Argyres

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Microscopic Bounds on Macroscopic Theories

Speaker: Francesco Riva

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee break

Tue, June 24

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Chaos and stochasticity in holography

Speaker: Julian Sonner

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM (No) Progress in Putting Chiral Fermions on the Lattice

Speaker: David Tong

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee break

Wed, June 25

9:00 AM → 12:50 PM Callan Day: HEP session

9:00 AM Welcome remarks

9:10 AM An IR test of S-duality

Speaker: Philip Argyres

9:50 AM From baryons and mesons to renormalisation group

Speaker: Igor Klebanov

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Particle physics in the sixties and seventies

Speaker: Jean Iliopoulos

11:30 AM Toy models for black hole evaporation

Speaker: Larus Thorlacius

12:10 PM Monopole-Fermion Scattering is Weird

Speaker: David Tong

12:50 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Callan Day: Biophysics session

2:00 PM William Bialek

Speaker: William Bialek

2:30 PM Thomas Gregor

3:00 PM Gasper Tkacik

3:30 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Thierry Mora

4:30 PM Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer

Thu, June 26

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Themelia, spikes, bulges, black poles, scars, gaps, and what they teach us about black holes

Speaker: Iosif Bena

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Dimensional Transmutation and Confinement in Various Models

Speaker: Igor Klebanov

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee break

Fri, June 27

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM QCD flux tube in AdS

Speaker: Victor Gorbenko

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Are black holes natural?

Speaker: Julio Parra-Martinez

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee break

3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Twistors and a Grassmanian for cosmology

Speaker: Guilherme Pimentel