29 Jun-3 Jul 2026 Paris (France)

Program

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08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00	Registration 8:50 - 9:20 (30min) Registration Registration Welcome 9:20 - 9:30 (10min) Welcome Amphitheatre 25 https://stringpheno26.sciencesconf.org/data/program/welcome_slides.pdf Plenary 9:30 - 10:30 (1h) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Mark Goodsell › Kaleidoscopes, Waves, and the Prepotential - Fabian Ruehle 09:30-09:55 (25min) › Data-centered studies of string compactifications - Magdalena Larfors 10:00-10:25 (25min) Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Plenary 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Mirjam Cvetic › Effective Potentials, Warping, and F-Term Uplifts - Arthur Hebecker 11:00-11:25 (25min) › Obstructions to degeneration limits of Type II orientifolds - Timo Weigand 11:30-11:55 (25min) › Obstructions to asymptotic regions in F-theory - Max Wiesner 12:00-12:25 (25min) Plenary 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Amir Kashani-Poor › The fermionic Z2xZ2 classification program: Past, Present and Future - Alon Faraggi 14:00-14:25 (25min) › Infinite Distances : UV or IR physics ? - Eran Palti 14:30-14:55 (25min) › Developments around the Emergence Proposal - Ralph Blumenhagen 15:00-15:25 (25min) › Gravity Decoupling and the Swampland - Fernando Marchesano 15:30-15:55 (25min) Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Plenary 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Gary Shiu › Quantum Gravity Bounds on Axion Physics - Tom Rudelius 16:30-16:55 (25min) › Combinatorial Standard Models - Jakob Moritz 17:00-17:25 (25min) › Testing F-theory GUTs and the heterotic string with axions - Mario Reig Lopez 17:30-17:55 (25min) Reception 18:00 - 20:00 (2h) Reception Reception, on patio next to amphi 25	Plenary 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Michela Petrini › The Dark Dimension - Cumrun Vafa 09:00-09:25 (25min) › Shedding Light on the Darkness: From Dark Photons to Dark Energy and the Dark Dimension - Michele Cicoli 09:30-09:55 (25min) › Moduli and Strings in the Early Universe - Joseph Conlon 10:00-10:25 (25min) Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Plenary 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Dieter Lüst › Landscape 2030 - Liam McAllister 11:00-11:25 (25min) › EFTs with symmetric moduli spaces: the landscape and the swampland - Mariana Grana 11:30-11:55 (25min) › TFTs are in the Swampland - Heckman Jonathan 12:00-12:25 (25min) Parallel 1 Parallel 2 Parallel 3 Parallel 4 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 1 Corridor 24-25 Room 108 Tom Rudelius › Supersymmetry breaking and Large Extra Dimensions - Leonardo Bersigotti 14:00-14:12 (12min) › Phenomenology of Closed String Hidden Photons - Luca Caraffi 14:15-14:27 (12min) › Constraining F-theory Model Building with QCD Axions - Keren Chen, Qinjian Lou 14:30-14:42 (12min) › Axions at small Calabi-Yau subvolumes - Pang Yen Byron Chen 14:45-14:57 (12min) › Natual Higgs mass from power-law running - Kang-Sin Choi 15:00-15:12 (12min) › (Pseudo) Dirac Gravitino - Arno Goudeau 15:15-15:27 (12min) 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 2 Amphitheatre 25 Max Wiesner › Instanton Corrections in Infinite Distance Limits - Manuel Artime 14:00-14:12 (12min) › Laplacians, instantons, and moduli space geometry - Muldrow Etheredge 14:15-14:27 (12min) › Tensionless String Limits in AdS5/CFT4 and the Sharpened Distance Conjecture - Gabriel Fenati 14:30-14:42 (12min) › EFT strings and potentials - Alessandra Grieco 14:45-14:57 (12min) › The Emergence Proposal: Vector-Multiplet Kinetics at one-loop - Jarod Hattab 15:00-15:12 (12min) › The WGC in AdS space - Puxin Lin 15:15-15:27 (12min) 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 3 Corridor 24-25 Room 101 Jakob Moritz › G2 Flux Compactifications of String Theory - Aravind Aikot 14:00-14:12 (12min) › Fake Moduli Stabilization Part I - Raphael Dulac 14:15-14:27 (12min) › Fake Moduli Stabilization Part II - Dimitrios Toulikas 14:30-14:42 (12min) › Perturbative Moduli Stabilisation, Inflation and Hagedorn Phase - Ahmed Rakin Kamal 14:45-14:57 (12min) › Heterotic flux vacua with a small superpotential - Lucas Tsun Yin Leung 15:00-15:12 (12min) › Time-Dependent Flux Backgrounds in Type IIB Supergravity - Ratul Mahanta 15:15-15:27 (12min) 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 4 Corridor 24-25 Room 107 Markus Dierigl › Hořava–Witten theory on $S^1 \vee S^1$ as type 0 orientifold - Edoardo Anastasi 14:00-14:12 (12min) › Type 0 orientifolds and heterotic ouroboros - Salvatore Raucci 14:15-14:27 (12min) › UV/IR relations from the worldsheet - Christian Aoufia 14:30-14:42 (12min) › On the web of effective theories with symmetric moduli space - Collazuol Veronica 14:45-14:57 (12min) › String compactifications, W-algebras and brane symmetries - Mateo Galdeano 15:00-15:12 (12min) › S-duality beyond supersymmetry: non-supersymmetric CHL strings - Bernardo Fraiman 15:15-15:27 (12min) Coffee break 15:30 - 16:00 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Parallel 1 Parallel 2 Parallel 3 Parallel 4 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Parallel 1 Corridor 24-25 Room 108 Mario Reig Lopez › Unifying Particle Physics and Cosmology in Type IIA String Theory - Yang Liu 16:00-16:12 (12min) › Computing Standard Models from D7-branes - Elijah Sheridan 16:15-16:27 (12min) › The Photinoverse - Jonathan Steiner 16:30-16:42 (12min) › Swampland Bounds on Magnetized Extra Dimensions - Maki Takeuchi 16:45-16:57 (12min) › A Supernova Constraint on F-theory - Sebastian Vander Ploeg Fallon 17:00-17:12 (12min) › Universal Confining Strings: From Compact QED to the Hadron Spectrum - Luis Zapata 17:15-17:27 (12min) 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Parallel 2 Amphitheatre 25 Matilda Delgado › EFT Strings and Quantum Obstructions to 4d N=1 Limits - Monnee Jeroen 16:00-16:12 (12min) › Quantum obstructions in Type IIA orientifolds - Lukas Kaufmann 16:15-16:27 (12min) › Integral scaling for EFT strings from brane taxonomy - Luca Melotti 16:30-16:42 (12min) › Optimal paths on scalar field space: potentials & Wasserstein distance - Thomas Raml 16:45-16:57 (12min) › Background instability of quintessence model in light of entropy and distance conjecture - Min-Seok Seo 17:00-17:12 (12min) › How constrained are stringy amplitudes? - Georgina Staudt 17:15-17:27 (12min) 16:00 - 17:45 (1h45) Parallel 3 Corridor 24-25 Room 101 David Andriot › Moduli Stabilisation for the Dark Dimension Scenario - Riccardo Milioli 16:00-16:12 (12min) › Exploring the type IIB flux landscape - Pellegrino Piantadosi 16:15-16:27 (12min) › Rolling Solutions in Warped Compactifications - Muthusamy Rajaguru 16:30-16:42 (12min) › Small F-term Vacua and Where to Find Them: a Geometric View of the Flux Landscape - Gaetano Maria Sifo 16:45-16:57 (12min) › Stabilization of a twisted modulus on a mirror of rigid Calabi-Yau manifold - Kai Takafumi 17:00-17:12 (12min) › An M-theory dS4 maximum from Casimir energies and Riemann-flat manifolds - Bruno Valeixo Bento 17:15-17:27 (12min) › No-scale strikes back: dynamical relaxation of vacuum energies - Gonzalo Villa 17:30-17:42 (12min) 16:00 - 17:45 (1h45) Parallel 4 Corridor 24-25 Room 107 Fernando Marchesano › String probes, simple currents, and the no global symmetries conjecture - Guglielmo Lockhart 16:00-16:12 (12min) › Generalised discrete torsion at genus two - Giorgio Leone 16:15-16:27 (12min) › Genuinely 4-dimensional Type II/Heterotic Dualities - Giacomo Maggiorotti 16:30-16:42 (12min) › Modular R-Symmetries and Discrete Gauge Symmetries - Alexander Stewart 16:45-16:57 (12min) › Asymmetric orbifolds with vanishing cosmological constant - Michelangelo Tartaglia 17:00-17:12 (12min) › Orientifolds of six-dimensional quasicrystallographic orbifolds - Antony Wendels 17:15-17:27 (12min)	Plenary 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Mariana Graña › Moduli Space Quantum Mechanics - Dieter Lüst 09:00-09:25 (25min) › M-theory on S1vS1 as Type 0A - Emilian Dudas 09:30-09:55 (25min) › Stringy Dualities without Supersymmetry - Matilda Delgado 10:00-10:25 (25min) Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Plenary 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Arthur Hebecker › Gauging obstructions & obstructions to gauging - Markus Dierigl 11:00-11:25 (25min) › Symmetry Theories, Anomalies and η Invariants - Mirjam Cvetic 11:30-11:55 (25min) › Non-invertible symmetries, axions, and the imaginary wormholes - Luca Martucci 12:00-12:25 (25min)	Plenary 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Fernando Quevedo › The Unbearable Lightness of moduli in flux vacua - Thomas Van Riet 09:00-09:25 (25min) › Brane duals of scale-separated AdS vacua - Fien Apers 09:30-09:55 (25min) › Counting AdS Vacua - Alessandro Tomasiello 10:00-10:25 (25min) Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Plenary 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Ralph Blumenhagen › Scaling up Landscape Exploration with AI - Gary Shiu 11:00-11:25 (25min) › The cost of small numbers: naturalness, fine-tuning, and arithmetics - Thomas Grimm 11:30-11:55 (25min) › A big picture on little strings - Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann 12:00-12:25 (25min) Parallel 1 Parallel 2 Parallel 3 Parallel 4 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 1 Corridor 24-25 Room 101 Susha Parameswaran › Gravitational Constraints for Fibre Inflation - Alessandro Borys 14:00-14:12 (12min) › Phenomenology of Cosmic Supertrings with Moduli-Dependent Tension - Luca Brunelli 14:15-14:27 (12min) › Schwinger-Like Production of Axion String Loops - Luen Clingerman 14:30-14:42 (12min) › Constraints on Higher Dimensional Inflation - Jules Cunat 14:45-14:57 (12min) › Signature of Particle Production during Inflation - Adam Gonstal 15:00-15:12 (12min) › Finite modular Coleman-Weinberg inflation - Komei Goto 15:15-15:27 (12min) 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 2 Amphitheatre 25 Miguel Montero › Casimirs of Casimirs: Ruling out scale-separated vacua with moduli space Laplacians - Miquel Aparici 14:00-14:12 (12min) › On the branes behind scale-separated AdS3 flux vacua - Álvaro Arboleya 14:15-14:27 (12min) › Hagedorn has no weight on his shoulders - Florent Baume 14:30-14:42 (12min) › 7D (non-)susy vacua & DWs from dynamical open strings - Bevilacqua Valentina 14:45-14:57 (12min) › Scale separation in 3D orientifold flux vacua - Gabriele Casagrande 15:00-15:12 (12min) › T-dualities and scale-separated $AdS_3$ in type I - Zheng Miao 15:15-15:27 (12min) 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 3 Corridor 24-25 Room 108 Damian van de Heisteeg › Kaleidoscopes, Waves and the Prepotential - Rafael Álvarez-García 14:00-14:12 (12min) › Hodge Loci and Complex Multiplication via Generalized Symmetries in Calabi-Yau sigma models - Roberta Angius 14:15-14:27 (12min) › Flux Vacua, Asymptotic Periods, and Relatively Anosov Representations - Paul Balavoine 14:30-14:42 (12min) › Supergravity anomaly equations from modularity of Calabi–Yau threefolds - Cesar Fierro Cota 14:45-14:57 (12min) › Calabi-Yau Orientifold Hypersurfaces and their F-Theory Uplifts - Björn Hassfeld 15:00-15:12 (12min) › Picard-Fuchs Ideals for Calabi-Yau Manifolds with many Moduli - Soeren Kotlewski 15:15-15:27 (12min) 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Parallel 4 Corridor 24-25 Room 107 Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann › Gravitational Background of Alice-Vortices and R7-Branes - Atakan Cavusoglu 14:00-14:12 (12min) › Schwinger-time approach towards the complete \alpha' corrected D3-brane action - Federico Compagnin 14:15-14:27 (12min) › Avoiding a multiversal apocalypse from Coleman-De-Luccia transitions - Thibaut Coudarchet 14:30-14:42 (12min) › Compactification with non-constant fluxes and the cobordism conjecture - Oscar Loaiza-Brito 14:45-14:57 (12min) › Sharpened Dynamical Cobordism - Andriana Makridou 15:00-15:12 (12min) › Calibration, fuzziness: new results on AdS vacuum decay - Vincent Menet 15:15-15:27 (12min) Coffee break 15:30 - 16:00 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Parallel 1 Parallel 2 Parallel 3 Parallel 4 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Parallel 1 Corridor 24-25 Room 101 Michele Cicoli › A consistent construction for the No Boundary wavefunction of the inflationary universe. - Daniel Mata Pacheco 16:00-16:12 (12min) › Resonant Cosmic Strings with Time-Dependent Tension - Martin Mosny 16:15-16:27 (12min) › Observable signatures of spectator axions in the early universe - Margherita Putti 16:30-16:42 (12min) › Cosmic superstrings in the early universe - Noelia Sanchez Gonzalez 16:45-16:57 (12min) › Thin windows for stringy axion dark energy - Flavio Tonioni 17:00-17:12 (12min) › Non-invertible selection rules in magnetized orbifold models - Haruki Uchida 17:15-17:27 (12min) 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Parallel 2 Amphitheatre 25 Alessandro Tomasiello › The landscape and the swampland of O(3,3) gauged supergravities - Diego Perugini 16:00-16:12 (12min) › T-dualities and scale-separated AdS3 in massless IIA - George Tringas 16:15-16:27 (12min) › Open strings in type IIB AdS3 flux vacua - Giuseppe Sudano 16:30-16:42 (12min) › UV Hints in the Hot IR - Dawson Thomas 16:45-16:57 (12min) › A holographic constraint on scale separation & DGKT - Filippo Revello 17:00-17:12 (12min) › Broken and restored: a holographic constraint and non-abelian orbifolds for AdS3 vacua - Vincent Van Hemelryck 17:15-17:27 (12min) 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Parallel 3 Corridor 24-25 Room 108 Fabian Ruehle › Exploring Line Bundle Standard Models with Transformers - Alessandro Mininno 16:00-16:12 (12min) › Orientifolds of Gepner models without Kähler moduli - Miguel Morros 16:15-16:27 (12min) › Calabi-Yau Metrics with Kähler Moduli Dependence and Applications to String Phenomenology - Luca Armando Nutricati 16:30-16:42 (12min) › A Frozen Singularity Pandemic - Ethan Torres 16:45-16:57 (12min) › Sampling String Vacua Using Generative Models - Moritz Walden 17:00-17:12 (12min) › Counting F-theory base polytopes - Yihang Yu 17:15-17:27 (12min) 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Parallel 4 Corridor 24-25 Room 107 Alvaro Herráez › Black Hole-Tower Correspondence and Species Backreaction - Joaquin Masias 16:00-16:12 (12min) › Exact Path Integral Methods in Supersymmetric AdS2 ×S2 Backgrounds - Carmine Montella 16:15-16:27 (12min) › How to (Non-)Perturb a BPS Black Hole - Matteo Zatti 16:30-16:42 (12min) › A domain wall bound on anti-de Sitter vacua - Antonia Paraskevopoulou 16:45-16:57 (12min) › Corbordisms and commutators: Handles and Junctions - Ignacio Ruiz García 17:00-17:12 (12min) › Hamiltonian Cobordism - Giulia Tazzoli, Max Planck Institute for Physics 17:15-17:27 (12min) Conference Dinner 18:30 - 22:30 (4h) 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	Plenary 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Severin Lüst › Curious properties of the vacuum energy in non-supersymmetric corners of the String Landscape - Miguel Montero 09:00-09:25 (25min) › Attempts at quintessence from string theory - David Andriot 09:30-09:55 (25min) › The Cosmological Constant Problem and Dark Dimensions from Non-Susy Strings - Susha Parameswaran 10:00-10:25 (25min) Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Patio 15/25 Plenary 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Emilian Dudas › TBA - Irene Valenzuela 11:00-11:25 (25min) › Probing infinite distance, one codimension at a time: the good, the bad... and the integer? - Alvaro Herráez 11:30-11:55 (25min) › UV/IR mixing through the lens of tensor networks - Steven Abel 12:00-12:25 (25min) Plenary 14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) Plenary Amphitheatre 25 Ignatios Antoniadis › Standard vs Non-Standard Questions in String Phenomenology - Fernando Quevedo 14:00-14:25 (25min) › Why Charged Massive Spin-3/2 Fields Want to Be String Oscillator States - Karim Benakli 14:30-14:55 (25min) › Learning Yukawa Couplings from String Theory - Andre Lukas 15:00-15:25 (25min)

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