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Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

European Southern Observatory - Chile

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most dynamic and powerful sources in the universe, powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) through mass accretion. The accretion rate influences many AGN properties, with high accretion rates playing a key role in growing black holes and launching outflows that may shape the host galaxy's growth. The workshop will gather astronomers to summarize the field’s current status, bridging the accretion history from the early to the local Universe, and explore the mechanisms driving their growth and impact on the Universe.

Email: agn2025_loc@eso.org

Arizona State University

Since 1963, the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics has been one of the most important international conferences in astronomy and physics. Traditionally, it moves around the globe and takes place in different cities every two years.

The 33rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics will take place in the vibrant city of Tempe, AZ from December 8 – 12, 2025. The event will be hosted at The Omni Hotel very near Arizona State University which offers state-of-the-art facilities to ensure a productive and enjoyable meeting.

We are thrilled to announce that John Mather, Jim Peebles, Adam Riess, George Smoot (TBC), and Frank Wilczek have already agreed to participate and attend the symposium.

Beyond the symposium, Tempe in December offers a perfect blend of outdoor adventures and festive activities, making it an ideal winter getaway. The mild temperatures invite visitors to explore the scenic beauty of Tempe Town Lake, hike the iconic Hayden Butte, or stroll through the Desert Botanical Garden. You can also experience the Tempe Fantasy of Lights Boat Parade, a dazzling display of holiday lights along the lake. The city hosts various seasonal events, including holiday markets, outdoor concerts, and ice skating rinks, offering attendees a chance to enjoy the warm desert climate while celebrating the holiday season.

The symposium will cover all major topics on high-energy and particle astrophysics, cosmology and relativity. It will include morning plenary sessions and afternoon parallel sessions which will function as mini-symposia in each sub-field. The plenary sessions will consist of ~45 min review talks. The afternoon sessions will feature oral talks (about 15-30 min) and poster contributions.

We look forward to welcoming hundreds of international astronomers and physicists to Arizona in December 2025!

Texas Symposium Admin;     Email: txsymp2025@asu.edu

cosmology, physics, astrophysics, earth and space exploration

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

INAF Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

The workshop “The Universe in a Chip: Final ICSC Spoke-3 Meeting on HPC & Big Data in Astrophysics” will take place in Sesto Pusteria from December 14 to 19 2025. During the event, the main achievements of the SPACE CoE and of the Spoke 3 of the National Centre for HPC, Big Data, and Quantum Computing will be presented through oral presentations and poster sessions.

One of the central features of the AAS Summer and Winter Meetings is their plenary talks spanning the full breadth of astrophysics. Some plenaries are given by prize winners from the AAS and other organizations, while other speakers are selected by the AAS Vice Presidents. Most plenary talks present science content, but talks on the state of the profession, demographics, and societal issues of relevance to the astronomical community are also regularly scheduled.

ICERM/Brown University

The aim of the workshop is to explore the implications and next steps of recent advances in understanding the dynamics and thermodynamics of near extremal black holes. By bringing together researchers in this area spanning the wide range of approaches, from rigorous mathematics, perturbation theory, and numerical methods, the workshop will focus on future directions. Extremal black holes are mathematical solutions of Einstein's equations describing stationary black holes with either maximal spin or maximal charge, and these black holes have special properties such as zero temperature. Recent studies have found certain surprising aspects of their dynamics including scalar hair and an avenue for their formation from subextremal configurations that violate the third law of black hole thermodynamics. These results raise a number of questions including the stability and critical behavior of such solutions that may be addressed via other research avenues.

Phone: [4018635030];     Email: info@icerm.brown.edu

Benasque Science Center

Analogue gravity enables the study and recreation in the laboratory of phenomena connected with the propagation of quantum fields on curved spacetimes. This allows experimental access to the interplay between wave propagation, curved spacetimes and quantum physics—a combination which normally eludes detection in gravitational systems. Examples include Hawking radiation, rotational super-radiance off ergosurfaces of rotating black holes, and the spontaneous emission of entangled pairs of particles in a rapidly expanding universe. A new phase has recently started in the field: technological advances have rendered the experimental implementation of many old and new theoretical ideas in a growing variety of platforms, ranging from classical fluids to quantum fluids, nonlinear optical fibers, graphene, etc. These are exciting times in which progress is driven by experiments. This event has two goals: the training of the new generation of researchers and a discussion of the state of the art of different research programs and experimental platforms.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

The lectures are primarily addressed to Ph.D. students in High Energy Particle and Astroparticle Physics. The aim of the school is to give a pedagogical introduction to the basic concepts and tools needed for research, covering the foundations of the subject at a deep and advanced level. The main topics include the Standard Model of Particle Physics and its extensions, Collider Physics, Quantum Field Theory and Cosmology.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

The aim of the school is to bring together PhD students with interests in low-dimensional quantum field theory, conformal field theory and integrable models, and their applications to statistical mechanics and condensed matter systems, and to help them build a solid and specialized background on these topics. The school provides a range of postgraduate courses covering introductory topics as well as recent developments.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

This workshop aims to explore both the similarities and complementarities between dark matter and the neutrino sector in the context of direct detection experiments with a particular focus on electronic excitations.

Recent progresses in the study of black hole perturbations have driven important developments into the understanding of their gravitational dynamics and their holographic dual strongly coupled systems. Further progress has also been made in understanding how dynamical gravity and bulk geometry emerge from strongly coupled systems. This yields the need for a platform where researchers of these fields can collaborate and share insights. This program aims to provide such a platform. A range of topics will be covered in this event, including black hole perturbations, boundary signatures of bulk geometry and conformal field theories at finite temperature.

ITCP

ICTP's annual Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics provides pedagogical treatment of those subjects through lectures by some of the world's top string and quantum field theorists. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematicians with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity, and string theory.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

ESA and CSIC.

The THESEUS science case will be presented through dedicated review talks, discussing the status-of-the-art knowledge on GRB science, early Universe studies, gravitation wave physics, and transient Universe phenomena in general. The development status of the instruments on-board THESEUS will be reported and discussed, together with the current assumptions for the mission profile. Contributed talks are expected to enrich the program and suggest further exploitations of the THESEUS instrumentation in many other fields of the modern Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and fundamental physics. Through this conference, we aim at strengthening the involvement of the community in the project and boost even more the synergies being developed between THESEUS and all other facilities operational in the 2030s in the multi-wavelength domains.

Email: mcaballero@iaa.es

Physics; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Mathematics and Statistics; Physics; Engineering and Technology;

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

Charged leptons have been key to the current understanding of physics at the shortest length scales and are the focus of precise tests of the Standard Model. In the coming years several experiments with increased sensitivity in charged lepton physics are expected to deliver exciting results. This workshop will offer the possibility for theoretical and experimental physicists to discuss the status and prospects of this field of research.

The workshop has three main topics: tau lepton precision physics (weeks 1+2), charged lepton flavour violation (weeks 2+3) and muon precision physics (weeks 3+4).

Galileo Galilei Institute

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Galileo Galilei Institute

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

Stars form from the collapse of dense clouds, and as the collapsing gas and dust is rotating, a disk forms around the star. Such disks are the birth places of planets and were referred to as ‘protoplanetary disks’. However, the properties of disks during the onset of planet formation have been, and remain, a matter of vigorous debate. We now know that disks have lifetimes of at most a few Myr rather than >10 Myr as previously believed and observed ring structures strongly hint at an early onset of planet formation while the disk is still embedded in its birth environment and fed by infall of gas and dust. Therefore, we are currently witnessing a paradigm shift where even young disks are no longer considered as ‘protoplanetary’, but ‘planet-forming’ instead. While there is agreement today that external effects play a major role in the planet formation process, relatively little work has been done so far in considering the protostellar environment.

SCALE: Strings & Cosmology – All Lengths Explored is a conference on the intersection of fundamental physics and cosmology taking place on May 11-15, 2026 at Hotel Landmar Playa La Arena in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. It is organized by Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT UAM–CSIC) in Madrid in collaboration with Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Tenerife. The goal is to foster a vibrant environment that connects communities working on diverse aspects of high-energy physics, string theory, and cosmology.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has proved to be a fertile ground for many areas of modern physics such as black holes, holography, condensed matter physics and many-body quantum chaos. In recent years, considerable progress has been made on the double-scaled limit of the SYK model (DSSYK), which is generic to a large class of p-local systems and beyond, and can be solved with great precision using combinatorial tools. New frontiers that emerged include noncommutative spacetimes and quantum groups, new “fake geometries” and negative distances in the bulk, and suggestions for the quantum nature of de Sitter gravity. All of the above topics are under active research by leading experts from different physics communities. We bring them together by for a one-week workshop at the SCGP to pursue further advancement in these research fields.

The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) brings the astrobiology community together every two years to share research, collaborate, and plan for the future. AbSciCon is a community-organized conference that provides a forum for reporting on new discoveries, sharing data and insights, advancing collaborative efforts and initiating new ones, planning new projects, and educating the next generation of astrobiologists.

Geophysics and Geology,    Biology

The goal of this workshop is to bring together a representative part of the research community responsible for recent progress on these questions, which spans several fields.

Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

The Galactic Center (GC) plays a pivotal role in the evolution of the Milky Way. It is instrumental in mapping and understanding the central regions of quiescent galaxies since it is the closest galactic nucleus to us. It serves as a unique test bed for both stellar dynamics in an extremely dense environment as well as magnetohydrodynamics in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). It is fundamental for studying star formation, because the conditions of its interstellar medium (magnetic fields, temperature, turbulence) are unlike any other place in the Milky Way. Despite many detailed multiwavelength studies of the central regions of our Galaxy, we still have many open questions concerning its history and future evolution. This symposium will bring together experts working on both observational and theoretical studies of the Galactic Center so that they can “traverse” this exciting region from Sgr A* and the surrounding dense nuclear star cluster to the central molecular zone and back, covering about eight orders of magnitude in spatial length. Looking at the Galactic nucleus from this vantage point will uncover details of its past processes and potential future. We will explore the remarkable progress made since the last major meeting of the community—the Galactic Center Workshop in Granada (April 24–28, 2023). We will examine exciting new results, including those from JWST and GRAVITY/ERIS at the VLT, as well as insights from ALMA and MeerKAT.

Phone: [00420 549 49 8773];     Email: info.gc2026@muni.cz

Galactic Center, supermassive black hole, nuclear star cluster, nuclear stellar disk, central molecular zone

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Computational Physics and Numerical Simulation

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada

This workshop focuses on gravitational singularities and the cosmic censorship conjectures, two intimately connected open problems in modern General Relativity. The event will explore recent research on weak and strong cosmic censorship, their relations to singularities arising in cosmological models or inside black holes, and how matter models affect the dynamics of these phenomena. This event will provide a platform for mathematicians and numerical physicists to discuss new developments and unanswered questions in the field.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from mathematics, quantum field theory, string theory and cosmology to make progress on an ambitious research program to obtain emergent space-time and early universe cosmology from a well defined quantum mechanical matrix model. The aim of the research program is nothing less than to develop a unified quantum theory of space, time and matter based on a well-defined mathematical foundation.

Mathematical Physics,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada

This workshop brings together mathematicians and physicists working on the dynamics of black holes. The event will explore recent breakthroughs in the stability of black holes, as well as the many remaining open questions, particularly in the near-extremal or extremal case. Topics will include longtime dynamics of black hole perturbations, including scattering problems, nonlinear studies, quasinormal modes, and unstable behaviors in both four and higher dimensions. As this is a very interdisciplinary area of research, we plan on having speakers spanning the continuum between physics and mathematics of General Relativity.

Thermal conformal field theories lie at the crossroads of quantum field theory, statistical physics, and quantum gravity. Through the AdS/CFT correspondence, thermal states in strongly coupled CFTs map to black hole geometries in higher-dimensional spacetimes; at the same time, thermal CFTs play a central role in characterizing universal aspects of quantum matter, critical dynamics, complexity and entanglement at finite temperature. This five-day workshop aims to bring together researchers with different perspectives on the subject, to stimulate collaborations across approaches ranging from bootstrap to lattice and reinforcing a growing community.

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

This four-week MIAPbP workshop will bring together observers and theorists to achieve a consolidated physical summary of the exciting new results from the first four years of JWST science operations. We will review the census of early star-forming galaxies, early BH demographics and growth mechanisms, the ionizing properties of early sources and their role in reionization, and the prospect of detecting pristine stellar populations. We will thus discuss future plans for JWST, guided by theoretical developments. What should JWST achieve during the next five years and what should our observing strategies be with complementary and future facilities like ALMA, SKA, and ELT?

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

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.) The subjects of these specialized lectures will be determined by the international committee. We also intend to cover the relation of supergravity to string theory (Maldacena, Schwarz), mathematics (Vafa), black holes (Warner) phenomenology (including cosmology) (Kallosh, Skenderis), and condensed matter (Erdmenger). We plan to have a panel discussion on the impact and future of supergravity.

Benasque Science Center

The aim of the workshop is to discuss problems in fundamental physics. We plan to have a flexible program that includes pedagogical talks and discussion sessions. We may also have informal talks to encourage debate. We hope these will allow those present to learn new ideas and techniques that will help them in their work. It is likely that supersymmetric gauge theories, supergravity, superstrings and other topics such as branes and dualities will be discussed. However, the organisers are open to the presentation of new ideas which are not well known to the community at large.

XMM-Newton SOC, ESAC/ESA

The seventh meeting in the series "The X-ray Universe” is planned to be held in the Mediterranean city of Elche, Spain, from 8 to 11 June 2026. This conference series is aimed at encompassing a broad range of high-energy astrophysics topics, from solar system studies to cosmology, and at providing a showcase for results and discoveries from XMM-Newton as well as from the variety of other current missions. The scientific potential of future mission projects and the evolution of the scientific analysis landscape will be further topics for discussion.

Email: jose.lopezmiralles@ext.esa.int

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

LHC physics, dark matter and dark energy, string theory, neutrino physics, precision measurements, non-accelerator probes of new physics, inflation, gravitational waves, cosmic tensions, and modified gravity.

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Mathematical Physics

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

One of the most important tools to quantitatively describe families of two-dimensional conformal field theories are gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs). As such they offer a powerful and indispensable method to study string compactifications and their phase structures from a worldsheet perspective. Over the years, the scope of GLSMs has developed much further, namely not only as a methodology to study string theories, but also to address fundamental questions of (supersymmetric) quantum field theories, in particular in two, three and four dimensions. That is to say, GLSMs have provided key insights into numerous aspects of mathematical physics, offering a bridge to various fields in mathematics such as enumerative and algebraic geometry and category theory. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from physics and mathematics in order to address topical research questions and to identify new applications for GLSMs.

Mathematical Physics,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

One of the biggest questions in all of science is the origin of structure in the Universe. What created everything that we see around us? There are hints suggesting that the answer involves a fascinating connection between the physics of the very small and the very large.

Technical University of Leoben, Montanuniversitaet Leoben

The PAMIR 2026 Conference will bring together researchers, scientists, and industry experts from around the world to exchange knowledge on topics including MHD in industrial metallurgy and materials processing, plasma and fusion applications, solar, stellar and galactic dynamics, geophysical and planetary MHD, and MHD pumps and electrical generators. The venue, Montanuniversität Leoben, is located in a vibrant Austrian city renowned for its rich mining and metallurgy tradition, surrounded by beautiful landscapes and historic architecture. This inspiring environment will foster fruitful discussions, scientific collaboration, and cultural exchange. We are confident that PAMIR 2026 will be an exceptional opportunity to advance the field of MHD, strengthen international collaboration, and create unforgettable experiences in Austria.

Contact Information;     Email: pamir2026@eumhd.com

Magnetohydrodynamics, MHD, plasma, liquid metal, electrochemistry, turbulence, fusion, astrophysics, material processing, metallurgy, geophysics, electric arcs,

Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Statistical Physics,    Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion

Galileo Galilei Institute

The training week will offer an introductory program specifically designed for students and early-career researchers, with the aim of preparing participants who may not yet be experts on the topic for the main workshop. The school will focus on key cosmological observables relevant to the workshop, as well as methodologies for data analysis and statistical techniques used to compare theoretical models with observations. It will feature a combination of lectures, hands-on tutorials, and guided discussions. At the end of the week, students will also have the opportunity to present their own work and receive feedback from leading experts in the field. Dedicated discussion sessions will provide a valuable space for participants to engage with fellow researchers, ask questions, and potentially initiate new collaborations.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Institute of Astronomy

This is the third installment of the annual UK & Ireland Discs Meeting and will be held at DAMTP in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The meeting is open to anyone working on on accretion disks, e.g. protoplanetary  disks, X-ray binaries, dwarf novae, AGN, and other systems. There will  be an emphasis on processes that are common to all disk systems, e.g. winds/jets, instabilities, planet-disk or BH-disk interactions.

Email: taj30@cam.ac.uk

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Committee on Space Research

Metrology and Instrumentation,    Aviation & Spaceflight

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

MIAPbP - Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics

This MIAPbP program has been designed to create a stimulating environment that fosters interdisciplinary discussions spanning theoretical, observational, and modelling aspects of massive star formation, evolution, and stellar atmospheres/winds. The program is structured into four broad Topical Blocks (TB) over four weeks. Our goal is to encourage cross-domain collaborations between experts from diverse disciplines, including spectroscopy and photometry, stellar atmosphere and evolution modelling, asteroseismology, and star formation studies, helping to advance the overarching challenge of integrating our understanding of massive star formation, evolution, and their end products into a coherent picture valid across cosmic time.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)

This conference will bring together researchers working in mathematical general relativity, in Newtonian gravity, and on the Newtonian limit of general relativity. The unifying theme is the analysis of partial differential equations involved in those fields. The conference will provide a platform to share analytic methodology pertinent to each field and to learn about recent advances and open problems.

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

PhysicsVision 2026 will bring together contributors from academia, research institutions, and industry to present and discuss recent studies, technological advancements, and challenges in the fields of Physics and Astronomy. The program is designed to encourage productive exchange, foster collaboration, and promote knowledge transfer across various areas of Physics and Astronomy.

Email: physicsvision2026@gmail.com

Radio, X-ray, and Gamma-ray Astronomy Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory Quantum Gravity and String Theory

Galileo Galilei Institute (CGI)

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

This workshop brings together leading experts in neuroscience, cosmology, and AI to develop new methods that not only help us understand the universe but also the neurons that make such understanding possible. With a focus on AI (XAI), participants will create algorithms that provide new insights on complex data by revealing how and why they make decisions. By studying the neurons that help us think and the AI that explains how it "thinks," we are not just pushing the boundaries of science—we are unraveling the very mechanisms that allow us to comprehend our place in the cosmos.

ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

International Institute of Physics (IIP)

The workshop addresses critical themes at the frontier of astrophysics and exoplanetary science. As the discovery of exoplanets continues to expand, understanding the complex interplay between stars and their planets becomes essential for advancing our knowledge of planetary evolution and the conditions required for life.

American Astronomical Society (AAS)

One of the central features of the AAS Summer and Winter Meetings is their plenary talks spanning the full breadth of astrophysics. Some plenaries are given by prize winners from the AAS and other organizations, while other speakers are selected by the AAS Vice Presidents. Most plenary talks present science content, but talks on the state of the profession, demographics, and societal issues of relevance to the astronomical community are also regularly scheduled.

American Astronomical Society (AAS)

One of the central features of the AAS Summer and Winter Meetings is their plenary talks spanning the full breadth of astrophysics. Some plenaries are given by prize winners from the AAS and other organizations, while other speakers are selected by the AAS Vice Presidents. Most plenary talks present science content, but talks on the state of the profession, demographics, and societal issues of relevance to the astronomical community are also regularly scheduled.