Monday, June 29, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:50 - 09:20 Registration - Registration  
09:20 - 09:30 Welcome (Amphitheatre 25)
 
09:30 - 10:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Mark Goodsell (+)  
09:30 - 09:55 › Kaleidoscopes, Waves, and the Prepotential - Fabian Ruehle  
10:00 - 10:25 › Data-centered studies of string compactifications - Magdalena Larfors  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Mirjam Cvetic (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Effective Potentials, Warping, and F-Term Uplifts - Arthur Hebecker  
11:30 - 11:55 › Obstructions to degeneration limits of Type II orientifolds - Timo Weigand  
12:00 - 12:25 › Obstructions to asymptotic regions in F-theory - Max Wiesner  
14:00 - 16:00 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Amir Kashani-Poor (+)  
14:00 - 14:25 › The fermionic Z2xZ2 classification program: Past, Present and Future - Alon Faraggi  
14:30 - 14:55 › Infinite Distances : UV or IR physics ? - Eran Palti  
15:00 - 15:25 › Developments around the Emergence Proposal - Ralph Blumenhagen  
15:30 - 15:55 › Gravity Decoupling and the Swampland - Fernando Marchesano  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
16:30 - 18:00 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Gary Shiu (+)  
16:30 - 16:55 › Quantum Gravity Bounds on Axion Physics - Tom Rudelius  
17:00 - 17:25 › Combinatorial Standard Models - Jakob Moritz  
17:30 - 17:55 › Testing F-theory GUTs and the heterotic string with axions - Mario Reig Lopez  
18:00 - 20:00 Reception - Reception, on patio next to amphi 25  

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Michela Petrini (+)  
09:00 - 09:25 › The Dark Dimension - Cumrun Vafa  
09:30 - 09:55 › Shedding Light on the Darkness: From Dark Photons to Dark Energy and the Dark Dimension - Michele Cicoli  
10:00 - 10:25 › Moduli and Strings in the Early Universe - Joseph Conlon  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Dieter Lüst (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Landscape 2030 - Liam McAllister  
11:30 - 11:55 › EFTs with symmetric moduli spaces: the landscape and the swampland - Mariana Grana  
12:00 - 12:25 › TFTs are in the Swampland - Heckman Jonathan  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 1 (Corridor 24-25 Room 108) - Tom Rudelius (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › Supersymmetry breaking and Large Extra Dimensions - Leonardo Bersigotti  
14:15 - 14:27 › Phenomenology of Closed String Hidden Photons - Luca Caraffi  
14:30 - 14:42 › Constraining F-theory Model Building with QCD Axions - Keren Chen, Qinjian Lou  
14:45 - 14:57 › Axions at small Calabi-Yau subvolumes - Pang Yen Byron Chen  
15:00 - 15:12 › Natual Higgs mass from power-law running - Kang-Sin Choi  
15:15 - 15:27 › (Pseudo) Dirac Gravitino - Arno Goudeau  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 2 (Amphitheatre 25) - Max Wiesner (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › Instanton Corrections in Infinite Distance Limits - Manuel Artime  
14:15 - 14:27 › Laplacians, instantons, and moduli space geometry - Muldrow Etheredge  
14:30 - 14:42 › Tensionless String Limits in AdS5/CFT4 and the Sharpened Distance Conjecture - Gabriel Fenati  
14:45 - 14:57 › EFT strings and potentials - Alessandra Grieco  
15:00 - 15:12 › The Emergence Proposal: Vector-Multiplet Kinetics at one-loop - Jarod Hattab  
15:15 - 15:27 › The WGC in AdS space - Puxin Lin  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 3 (Corridor 24-25 Room 101) - Jakob Moritz (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › G2 Flux Compactifications of String Theory - Aravind Aikot  
14:15 - 14:27 › Fake Moduli Stabilization Part I - Raphael Dulac  
14:30 - 14:42 › Fake Moduli Stabilization Part II - Dimitrios Toulikas  
14:45 - 14:57 › Perturbative Moduli Stabilisation, Inflation and Hagedorn Phase - Ahmed Rakin Kamal  
15:00 - 15:12 › Heterotic flux vacua with a small superpotential - Lucas Tsun Yin Leung  
15:15 - 15:27 › Time-Dependent Flux Backgrounds in Type IIB Supergravity - Ratul Mahanta  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 4 (Corridor 24-25 Room 107) - Markus Dierigl (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › Hořava–Witten theory on $S^1 \vee S^1$ as type 0 orientifold - Edoardo Anastasi  
14:15 - 14:27 › Type 0 orientifolds and heterotic ouroboros - Salvatore Raucci  
14:30 - 14:42 › UV/IR relations from the worldsheet - Christian Aoufia  
14:45 - 14:57 › On the web of effective theories with symmetric moduli space - Collazuol Veronica  
15:00 - 15:12 › String compactifications, W-algebras and brane symmetries - Mateo Galdeano  
15:15 - 15:27 › S-duality beyond supersymmetry: non-supersymmetric CHL strings - Bernardo Fraiman  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel 1 (Corridor 24-25 Room 108) - Mario Reig Lopez (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › Unifying Particle Physics and Cosmology in Type IIA String Theory - Yang Liu  
16:15 - 16:27 › Computing Standard Models from D7-branes - Elijah Sheridan  
16:30 - 16:42 › The Photinoverse - Jonathan Steiner  
16:45 - 16:57 › Swampland Bounds on Magnetized Extra Dimensions - Maki Takeuchi  
17:00 - 17:12 › A Supernova Constraint on F-theory - Sebastian Vander Ploeg Fallon  
17:15 - 17:27 › Universal Confining Strings: From Compact QED to the Hadron Spectrum - Luis Zapata  
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel 2 (Amphitheatre 25) - Matilda Delgado (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › EFT Strings and Quantum Obstructions to 4d N=1 Limits - Monnee Jeroen  
16:15 - 16:27 › Quantum obstructions in Type IIA orientifolds - Lukas Kaufmann  
16:30 - 16:42 › Integral scaling for EFT strings from brane taxonomy - Luca Melotti  
16:45 - 16:57 › Optimal paths on scalar field space: potentials & Wasserstein distance - Thomas Raml  
17:00 - 17:12 › Background instability of quintessence model in light of entropy and distance conjecture - Min-Seok Seo  
17:15 - 17:27 › How constrained are stringy amplitudes? - Georgina Staudt  
16:00 - 17:45 Parallel 3 (Corridor 24-25 Room 101) - David Andriot (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › Moduli Stabilisation for the Dark Dimension Scenario - Riccardo Milioli  
16:15 - 16:27 › Exploring the type IIB flux landscape - Pellegrino Piantadosi  
16:30 - 16:42 › Rolling Solutions in Warped Compactifications - Muthusamy Rajaguru  
16:45 - 16:57 › Small F-term Vacua and Where to Find Them: a Geometric View of the Flux Landscape - Gaetano Maria Sifo  
17:00 - 17:12 › Stabilization of a twisted modulus on a mirror of rigid Calabi-Yau manifold - Kai Takafumi  
17:15 - 17:27 › An M-theory dS4 maximum from Casimir energies and Riemann-flat manifolds - Bruno Valeixo Bento  
17:30 - 17:42 › No-scale strikes back: dynamical relaxation of vacuum energies - Gonzalo Villa  
16:00 - 17:45 Parallel 4 (Corridor 24-25 Room 107) - Fernando Marchesano (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › String probes, simple currents, and the no global symmetries conjecture - Guglielmo Lockhart  
16:15 - 16:27 › Generalised discrete torsion at genus two - Giorgio Leone  
16:30 - 16:42 › Genuinely 4-dimensional Type II/Heterotic Dualities - Giacomo Maggiorotti  
16:45 - 16:57 › Modular R-Symmetries and Discrete Gauge Symmetries - Alexander Stewart  
17:00 - 17:12 › Asymmetric orbifolds with vanishing cosmological constant - Michelangelo Tartaglia  
17:15 - 17:27 › Orientifolds of six-dimensional quasicrystallographic orbifolds - Antony Wendels  

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Mariana Graña (+)  
09:00 - 09:25 › Moduli Space Quantum Mechanics - Dieter Lüst  
09:30 - 09:55 › M-theory on S1vS1 as Type 0A - Emilian Dudas  
10:00 - 10:25 › Stringy Dualities without Supersymmetry - Matilda Delgado  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Arthur Hebecker (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Gauging obstructions & obstructions to gauging - Markus Dierigl  
11:30 - 11:55 › Symmetry Theories, Anomalies and η Invariants - Mirjam Cvetic  
12:00 - 12:25 › Non-invertible symmetries, axions, and the imaginary wormholes - Luca Martucci  

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Fernando Quevedo (+)  
09:00 - 09:25 › The Unbearable Lightness of moduli in flux vacua - Thomas Van Riet  
09:30 - 09:55 › Brane duals of scale-separated AdS vacua - Fien Apers  
10:00 - 10:25 › Counting AdS Vacua - Alessandro Tomasiello  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Ralph Blumenhagen (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Scaling up Landscape Exploration with AI - Gary Shiu  
11:30 - 11:55 › The cost of small numbers: naturalness, fine-tuning, and arithmetics - Thomas Grimm  
12:00 - 12:25 › A big picture on little strings - Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 1 (Corridor 24-25 Room 101) - Susha Parameswaran (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › Gravitational Constraints for Fibre Inflation - Alessandro Borys  
14:15 - 14:27 › Phenomenology of Cosmic Supertrings with Moduli-Dependent Tension - Luca Brunelli  
14:30 - 14:42 › Schwinger-Like Production of Axion String Loops - Luen Clingerman  
14:45 - 14:57 › Constraints on Higher Dimensional Inflation - Jules Cunat  
15:00 - 15:12 › Signature of Particle Production during Inflation - Adam Gonstal  
15:15 - 15:27 › Finite modular Coleman-Weinberg inflation - Komei Goto  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 2 (Amphitheatre 25) - Miguel Montero (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › Casimirs of Casimirs: Ruling out scale-separated vacua with moduli space Laplacians - Miquel Aparici  
14:15 - 14:27 › On the branes behind scale-separated AdS3 flux vacua - Álvaro Arboleya  
14:30 - 14:42 › Hagedorn has no weight on his shoulders - Florent Baume  
14:45 - 14:57 › 7D (non-)susy vacua & DWs from dynamical open strings - Bevilacqua Valentina  
15:00 - 15:12 › Scale separation in 3D orientifold flux vacua - Gabriele Casagrande  
15:15 - 15:27 › T-dualities and scale-separated $AdS_3$ in type I - Zheng Miao  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 3 (Corridor 24-25 Room 108) - Damian van de Heisteeg (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › The Heterotic Bott Defect - Rafael Álvarez-García  
14:15 - 14:27 › Hodge Loci and Complex Multiplication via Generalized Symmetries in Calabi-Yau sigma models - Roberta Angius  
14:30 - 14:42 › Flux Vacua, Asymptotic Periods, and Relatively Anosov Representations - Paul Balavoine  
14:45 - 14:57 › Supergravity anomaly equations from modularity of Calabi–Yau threefolds - Cesar Fierro Cota  
15:00 - 15:12 › Calabi-Yau Orientifold Hypersurfaces and their F-Theory Uplifts - Björn Hassfeld  
15:15 - 15:27 › Picard-Fuchs Ideals for Calabi-Yau Manifolds with many Moduli - Soeren Kotlewski  
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel 4 (Corridor 24-25 Room 107) - Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (+)  
14:00 - 14:12 › Gravitational Background of Alice-Vortices and R7-Branes - Atakan Cavusoglu  
14:15 - 14:27 › Schwinger-time approach towards the complete \alpha' corrected D3-brane action - Federico Compagnin  
14:30 - 14:42 › Avoiding a multiversal apocalypse from Coleman-De-Luccia transitions - Thibaut Coudarchet  
14:45 - 14:57 › Compactification with non-constant fluxes and the cobordism conjecture - Oscar Loaiza-Brito  
15:00 - 15:12 › Sharpened Dynamical Cobordism - Andriana Makridou  
15:15 - 15:27 › Calibration, fuzziness: new results on AdS vacuum decay - Vincent Menet  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel 1 (Corridor 24-25 Room 101) - Michele Cicoli (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › A consistent construction for the No Boundary wavefunction of the inflationary universe. - Daniel Mata Pacheco  
16:15 - 16:27 › Resonant Cosmic Strings with Time-Dependent Tension - Martin Mosny  
16:30 - 16:42 › Observable signatures of spectator axions in the early universe - Margherita Putti  
16:45 - 16:57 › Cosmic superstrings in the early universe - Noelia Sanchez Gonzalez  
17:00 - 17:12 › Thin windows for stringy axion dark energy - Flavio Tonioni  
17:15 - 17:27 › Non-invertible selection rules in magnetized orbifold models - Haruki Uchida  
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel 2 (Amphitheatre 25) - Alessandro Tomasiello (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › The landscape and the swampland of O(3,3) gauged supergravities - Diego Perugini  
16:15 - 16:27 › T-dualities and scale-separated AdS3 in massless IIA - George Tringas  
16:30 - 16:42 › Open strings in type IIB AdS3 flux vacua - Giuseppe Sudano  
16:45 - 16:57 › UV Hints in the Hot IR - Dawson Thomas  
17:00 - 17:12 › A holographic constraint on scale separation & DGKT - Filippo Revello  
17:15 - 17:27 › Broken and restored: a holographic constraint and non-abelian orbifolds for AdS3 vacua - Vincent Van Hemelryck  
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel 3 (Corridor 24-25 Room 108) - Fabian Ruehle (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › Exploring Line Bundle Standard Models with Transformers - Alessandro Mininno  
16:15 - 16:27 › Orientifolds of Gepner models without Kähler moduli - Miguel Morros  
16:30 - 16:42 › Calabi-Yau Metrics with Kähler Moduli Dependence and Applications to String Phenomenology - Luca Armando Nutricati  
16:45 - 16:57 › A Frozen Singularity Pandemic - Ethan Torres  
17:00 - 17:12 › Sampling String Vacua Using Generative Models - Moritz Walden  
17:15 - 17:27 › Counting F-theory base polytopes - Yihang Yu  
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel 4 (Corridor 24-25 Room 107) - Alvaro Herráez (+)  
16:00 - 16:12 › Black Hole-Tower Correspondence and Species Backreaction - Joaquin Masias  
16:15 - 16:27 › Exact Path Integral Methods in Supersymmetric AdS2 ×S2 Backgrounds - Carmine Montella  
16:30 - 16:42 › How to (Non-)Perturb a BPS Black Hole - Matteo Zatti  
16:45 - 16:57 › A domain wall bound on anti-de Sitter vacua - Antonia Paraskevopoulou  
17:00 - 17:12 › Corbordisms and commutators: Handles and Junctions - Ignacio Ruiz García  
17:15 - 17:27 › Hamiltonian Cobordism - Giulia Tazzoli, Max Planck Institute for Physics  
18:30 - 22:30 Conference Dinner - Nocturnal visit of the musée d'Orsay, arrival between 18:00 - 19:00 Conference Dinner @ maison de l'Amerique latine at 20:00, 217 Boulevard Saint Germain  

Friday, July 3, 2026

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Severin Lüst (+)  
09:00 - 09:25 › Curious properties of the vacuum energy in non-supersymmetric corners of the String Landscape - Miguel Montero  
09:30 - 09:55 › Attempts at quintessence from string theory - David Andriot  
10:00 - 10:25 › The Cosmological Constant Problem and Dark Dimensions from Non-Susy Strings - Susha Parameswaran  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Patio 15/25)  
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Emilian Dudas (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Bounds on KK towers with warping and Global Symmetry Breaking - Irene Valenzuela  
11:30 - 11:55 › Probing infinite distance, one codimension at a time: the good, the bad... and the integer? - Alvaro Herráez  
12:00 - 12:25 › UV/IR mixing through the lens of tensor networks - Steven Abel  
14:00 - 15:30 Plenary (Amphitheatre 25) - Ignatios Antoniadis (+)  
14:00 - 14:25 › Standard vs Non-Standard Questions in String Phenomenology - Fernando Quevedo  
14:30 - 14:55 › Why Charged Massive Spin-3/2 Fields Want to Be String Oscillator States - Karim Benakli  
15:00 - 15:25 › Learning Yukawa Couplings from String Theory - Andre Lukas  
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