Events, Seminars, Conferences

HEP-TH seminar (AY 2026-27):

• Mon Oct 19, 1:30PM, Hicks J11 - Kuba Krawczyk (Sheffield): TBA

HEP-TH seminar (AY 2025-26):

• Mon Oct 13, 2PM, Hicks J11 - Thorsten Schimannek (Utrecht): Counting the curves for fun and profit

• Mon Nov 24, 3PM, Hicks J11 - Matijn François (Geneva): From open topological strings to eigenfunctions

• Wed Nov 26, 2PM, Hicks J11 - Mohammad Akhond (Rome Tor Vergata): On brane system with O+ planes

• Mon Dec 1, 3PM, Hicks J11 - Tommaso Pedroni (SISSA): Blowing-up the edge: connection formulae and stability chart of the Lamé equation

• Wed Dec 3, 2PM, Hicks J11 - Marina Moleti (SISSA): 5d BPS Quivers from M-theory on non-toric Calabi-Yau Threefolds

• Wed May 20, 3PM, Hicks J11 - Maria Mylova (Kavli IPMU Tokyo and Perimeter Institute): Gauge fixing in open quantum systems [organized by the Cosmology, Relativity And Gravitation research group]

Past HEP-TH seminars:

• Lea Bottini (Oxford), Gapped phases and phase transitions from the SymTFT, Mar 4, 2025

• Matteo Sacchi (Oxford), Symmetries, anomalies, and compactifications in QFT, May 17, 2024

• Andrea Zanetti (University of Milan), S-duality from Black Holes, Dec 12, 2024

Present and future conferences, workshops, and events:

• Physics and Arithmetic of Calabi-Yau Manifolds, Hicks J11, University of Sheffield. 

  • Mon Oct 12, 13:30-15:00, TBA

  • Tue Oct 13, 10:00-12:00, Neil Dummigan: L-functions of Calabi-Yau threefolds

  • Wed Oct 14. 10:00-11:00, Pyry Kuusela: TBA

  • Wed Oct 14, 11:00-11:30, Paul Blesse: TBA

  • Wed Oct 14, 11:30-12:00, Eleonora Svanberg: TBA

  • Thu Oct 15, 10:00-11:00. Mohamed Elmi: Hadamard Products and SYZ Fibrations

  • Thu Oct 15, 11:00-12:00. Janis Dücker: TBA

  • Fri Oct 16 , 13:00-14:00, Eric Pichon-Pharabod: TBA

  • Fri Oct 16 , 14:00-14:30, Miroslava Mosso Rojas: Efficient computation of local zeta functions of Calabi-Yau differential operators

  • Fri Oct 16, 14:30-15:00, Catherine Notman: Equivariant Localisation for N=(2,0) AdS_3 Solutions of M-Theory

Past conferences and workshops organized or co-organized by our group:

• PASCOS 2026, the 31st International Symposium on Particles, Strings, and Cosmology, University of Sheffield, Jun 22-26, 2026.

• Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Physics, (funded by the Max Planck-IAS-NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology and Geometry), NTU Taipei, May 6-8, 2026.

• From Shape to Signal, applications of TDA to time-series and detection of exceptional events, (funded by an EPSRC IAA KE Science grant), University of Sheffield, Mar 2-9, 2026.

• Geometry and Physics of Mirror Symmetry 2024 (co-organized with the Algebraic Geometry & Mathematical Physics group, funded by the EPSRC Fellowship grant Mirror symmetry, quantum curves and integrable systems, the EPSRC Programme grant Enhancing Representation Theory, Noncommutative Algebra And Geometry Through Moduli, Stability And Deformations, and the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences), University of Sheffield, Sep 2-6, 2026.

Public Outreach

• School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences News article

• MBNews article (in Italian)