Supergravity at 50 – June 2-4, 2026

Organized by:

  • Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
  • Dan Freedman
  • Sergio Ferrara
  • Luis Alvarez-Gaume

Advisory Committee:

  • Hermann Nicolai
  • Anna Ceresole
  • Paul Townsend
  • Antoine van Proeyen
Participant List

Supergravity is intrinsically associated with Stony Brook. It may well be the most significant physics discovery in the entire history of the Yang Institute. Since 1976, many researchers have worked to generalize the basic theory we found and apply it to the physics of elementary particles and gravity. Along the way supergravity has made contact with frontline mathematics, notably geometry and topology. The records of the Inspire archive vouchsafe for the fact that supergravity has become a major subject in theoretical physics. There are 6242 papers in which the word supergravity appears in the title and 19868 additional papers in which it is a keyword. (Keywords primarily appear in the abstract.)

Registration for this event is closed. All talks can be viewed live at scgp.stonybrook.edu/live

Talk Schedule


Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am – 10:15am Quantum Supergravity and E10

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Hermann Nicolai SCGP 102
10:15am – 11:00am Turning Supergravity up to eleven, or to Branes and New Geometries?

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Bernard Julia SCGP 102
11:00am – 11:30am Coffee Break SCGP Cafe
11:30am – 12:15pm The Mathematics of Supergravity

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Gregory Moore SCGP 102
12:15pm – 1:00pm Issues in broken supergravity

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Fabio Zwirner SCGP 102
1:00pm – 2:30pm Lunch SCGP Cafe
2:30pm – 3:15pm Supergravity attractors in black holes and cosmology

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Renata Kallosh SCGP 102
3:15pm – 4:00pm Holographic renormalization and supergravity

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Kostas Skenderis SCGP 102
4:00pm – 4:15pm Coffee Break SCGP Cafe
4:15pm – 5:00pm String dualities and modular symmetries in supergravity

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Dieter Luest SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am – 10:15am Dualities

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Chris Hull SCGP 102
10:15am – 11:00am N=2 supergravity: from conformal calculus to special geometry

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Antoine van Proeyen SCGP 102
11:00am – 11:30am Coffee Break SCGP Cafe
11:30am – 12:15pm Why we need branes

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Paul Townsend SCGP 102
12:15pm – 1:00pm Holography and Geometry

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Michela Petrini SCGP 102
1:00pm – 2:30pm Lunch SCGP Cafe
2:30pm – 3:15pm Supergravity in superspace

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Martin Rocek SCGP 102
3:15pm – 4:00pm Group geometric approach to supergravity

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Leonardo Castellani SCGP 102
4:00pm – 4:15pm Coffee Break SCGP Cafe
4:15pm – 5:00pm Gauging supergravity

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Henning Samtleben SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am – 10:15am Supergravity and holography

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Juan Maldacena SCGP 102
10:15am – 11:00am Multiloop Calculations in Supergravity

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Zvi Bern SCGP 102
11:00am – 11:30am Coffee Break SCGP Cafe
11:30am – 12:15pm Supergravity: the best effective description of black-hole microstructure

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Nick Warner SCGP 102
12:15pm – 1:00pm Ultraviolet divergences in supergravity

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Guillaume Bossard SCGP 102
1:00pm – 2:30pm Lunch SCGP Cafe
2:30pm – 3:15pm Equivariant Localization in Supergravity

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Jerome Gauntlett SCGP 102
3:15pm – 4:00pm RG flows, supergravity and holography

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Alberto Zaffaroni SCGP 102
4:00pm – 4:15pm Coffee Break SCGP Cafe
4:15pm – 5:00pm Supergravity in the context of string theory

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John Schwarz SCGP 102