Paths to Quantum Field Theory: June 22-26, 2026

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Organized by:

  • Aleksey Cherman (U of Minnesota)
  • Sungwoo Hong, (KAIST)
  • Nabil Iqbal (Durham U)
  • Zohar Komargodski (SCGP)
  • Emily Nardoni, (Vassar College)
  • Tin Sulejmanpasic (Durham U)
  • Nathanan Tantivasadakarn (SBU)

Our workshop proposal centers on trying to bring together the members of several disjoint communities in a productive and informative way. While workshops to this effect do exist, e.g. very synergic interactions of formal high-energy community and formal condensed matter community nowadays commonplace, less emphasis is made on having communities interact when the methodology of research varies greatly. Namely the interaction between numerical, phenomenological and formal hep community is quite poor, and the questions these communities are trying to answer are often either cast in different languages and motivation. We believe this is fertile ground for enormous progress. However, to overcome it, one needs to overcome a difference in langue, notation and style which causes a high-barrier of inter-community communication. In order to facilitate this, having high-quality speakers as well as a high-quality audience is essential. In addition, the format of the talks is absolutely crucial, because traditional-style talks are unlikely to work well in communicating across different communities.

Talk Schedule


Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Proliferation Transitions from a 2+1d TQFT – Part 1 Nathan Seiberg – Part 1 SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Proliferation Transitions from a 2+1d TQFT – Part 2 Nathan Seiberg – Part 2 SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:20pm Exactly Solvable 1+1d Chiral Lattice Gauge Theories Sahand Seifnashri SCGP 102
1:50pm 20 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
2:10pm Surprising paths to QFTs: From strong coupling to weak coupling and against the RG flow Shlomo Razamat SCGP 102
2:40pm 20 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
3:00pm A Tale of Two Fermions Rishi Mouland SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Carving Out the Space of 3d CFTs with an Analytic-Functional Bootstrap Zechuan Zheng SCGP 102
4:30pm DISCUSSION Workshop Participants SCGP 102
5:45pm Danfords Shuttle – 5:45PM and 6:30PM N/A SCGP Lobby

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am What I Don’t Understand About Monopole-Fermion Scattering – Part 1 David Tong – Part 1 SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am What I Don’t Understand About Monopole-Fermion Scattering – Part 2 David Tong – Part 2 SCGP 102
11:45am Group Photo N/A SCGP Lobby
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:15pm Self-Dual Multicritical Points in the Continuum and on the Lattice Thomas Dumitrescu- Part 1 SCGP 102
2:15pm 15 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
2:30pm Self-Dual Multicritical Points in the Continuum and on the Lattice Thomas Dumitrescu- Part 2 SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm DISCUSSION Workshop Participants SCGP 102
5:15pm Danfords Shuttle  – 5:15PM & 6:00PM N/A SCGP Lobby

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Gapless Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases: Meta-Anomalies and Exact Solvability – Part 1 Ruben Verresen – Part 1 SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Gapless Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases: Meta-Anomalies and Exact Solvability – Part 2 Ruben Verresen – Part 2 SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:20pm Proof of Entropic Order in Generalized Ising Models Enrico Andriolo SCGP 102
1:50pm 20 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
2:10pm Non-invertible symmetry enriched topological orders Luisa Eck SCGP 102
2:40pm 20 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
3:00pm Absence of single-particle states in systems with spontaneous symmetry breaking Abijith Krishnan SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm DISCUSSION Workshop Participants SCGP 102
6:00pm Banquet Dinner N/A SCGP Cafe
8:15pm Danfords Shuttle  – 8:15PM & 9:00PM N/A SCGP Lobby

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am QFT in the Early Universe Hayden Lee – Part 1 SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am QFT in the Early Universe Hayden Lee – Part 2 SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:30pm Conformally Flat Limit of Quadratic Gravity Neil Turok SCGP 102
2:00pm 20 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
2:20pm Monopoles and Abelian Instantons Isabel Garcia-Garcia SCGP 102
2:50pm 30 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
3:10pm TBD Liantao Wang SCGP 102
4:30pm Special Seminar Public Tea N/A SCGP Cafe
5:00pm Public Lecture: A Simpler Cosmology Neil Turok SCGP 103
6:15pm Danfords Shuttle  – 6:15PM & 6:45PM N/A SCGP Lobby

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Self-dual Higgs transitions: Toric code and beyond – Part 1 Chong Wang – Part 1 SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Self-dual Higgs transitions: Toric code and beyond – Part 2 Chong Wang – Part 2 SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:20pm Symmetry perspective on an exotic axion-photon coupling Gongjun Choi SCGP 102
1:50pm 20 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
2:10pm Qubit-Regularized Gauge Theories on Plaquette Chains Ruixian Siew SCGP 102
2:40pm 20 MIN BREAK N/A SCGP 102
3:00pm Some Rethinking of Lattice QFT: from Category Theoretic Framework to Machine Learning Renormalization Jing-Yuan Chen SCG P102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:30pm Danfords Shuttle  – 4:30PM N/A SCGP Lobby