French Strings Meeting 2025

Jun 3, 2025, 10:00 AM → Jun 5, 2025, 3:00 PM Europe/Paris

Institut Denis Poisson

Balt Van Rees, Benjamin Basso (Laboratoire de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure), Boris Pioline (LPTHE, Sorbonne Université et CNRS), Francesco Nitti (APC, Université de Paris), Henning Samtleben (Ecole Normale de Lyon), Oleg Lisovyi (Université de Tours), Ruben Minasian (IPhT CEA Saclay), Xavier Bekaert (Institut Denis Poisson (Université de Tours))

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 Institut Denis Poisson, Tours, from Tuesday June 3 at 2pm till Thursday June 5 at around 2pm. The detailed program can be found here. Talks are by invitation. 

Review talks (50+10 min) will be given by:

• Carlo Heissenberg (IPHT):TBA
• Sylvain Lacroix (LPTHE): "4d Chern-Simons theory and integrable sigma-models"
• Dalimil Mazac (IPHT): TBA
• Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR): "Supersymmetric States in N=4 Yang Mills Theory"
• Olga Papadoulaki (CPHT)TBA

 

Short talks (25+5 min) will be given by:

• Khalil Bendriss (LCC)
• Zhongwu Chen (LPENS) 

• Camille Eloy (ENSL)

• Adrien Fiorucci (CPHT)

• Romain Gervalle (IDP)
• Mehmet Gumus (LAPTH)
• Ioannis Tsiares (IPHT) 
• Philine Van Vliet (LPENS)

• Xiang Zhao (IPHT)

• Tom Wetzstein (LPTHE) 

 

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

French Strings Meeting (Annecy, 2023)

French kick-off meeting of IRN:QFS (Zoom@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 TBA.

 

Travel: Tours can be reached by train (SNCF), bus (Flixbus) or car (including car-sharing Blablacar). Detailed information on how to access Institut Denis Poisson can be found at the botton of this  page (beware that IDP has two sites, the one in Tours and another in Orleans !). 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 IDP. The workshop dinner will take place at TBA. 

 

Organizing Committee:  Benjamin Basso, Xavier Bekaert, Oleg Lisovyy, Ruben Minasian, Michela Petrini, Boris Pioline, Balt van Rees, Henning Samtleben.

 

Funding: IRN:QFS,  FRIF

Tue, June 3

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Review Talk: Dalimil Mazac

Convener: Dalimil Mazac

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Talk: Philine Van Vliet

Convener: Philine Van Vliet (LPENS)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Talk: Mehmet Gumus

Convener: Mehmet Gumus (LAPTH)

5:15 PM → 6:15 PM Gong-Show: Many contributers

Convener: Ruben Minasian (IPhT CEA Saclay)

6:15 PM → 6:45 PM Apéritif

Wed, June 4

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Review Talk: Shiraz Minwalla

Convener: Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Talk: Khalil Bendriss

Convener: Khalil Bendriss (L2C)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Talk: Charting the Conformal Manifold of Holographic CFT2’s

Convener: Camille Eloy (ENSL)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Talk: On the three-point functions in timelike N=1 Liouville CFT

Convener: Ioannis Tsiares (IPhT, CEA-Saclay)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Review Talk: Carlo Heissenberg

Convener: Carlo Heissenberg (IPHT)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Talk: Adrien Fiorucci

Convener: Adrien Fiorucci (CPHT)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Talk: Tom Wetzstein

Convener: Tom Wetzstein (LPTHE)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Talk: Black holes with electroweak hair

Convener: Romain Gervalle (IDP)

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Review Talk: 4d Chern-Simons theory and integrable sigma-models

Convener: Sylvain Lacroix (LPTHE (Sorbonne Université))

6:00 PM → 6:01 PM Group picture

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Thu, June 5

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Review Talk: Olga Papadoulaki

Convener: Olga Papadoulaki (CPHT)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Talk: Xiang Zhao

Convener: Xiang Zhao (IPHT)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Talk: Claudia Rella

Convener: Claudia Rella (IHES)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Talk: Zhongwu Chen

Convener: Zhongwu Chen (LPENS)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break