Simons Satellite Meeting on Celestial Holography 2026

America/New_York
Andaz 5th Avenue 485 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA
Tim Adamo (University of Edinburgh)
Description

A two-day workshop with the Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography taking place on 14-15 April 2026 at the Andaz 5th Avenue in New York City. This meeting will feature a variety of talks related to celestial holography and its applications, as well as ample time for discussion and interaction. 

This satellite meeting is immediately followed by the Annual Meeting of the Simons Collaboration, on 16-17 April 2026 at the Simons Foundation.

(This is an invitation-only meeting.)

 

Confirmed Speakers: Roland Bittleston (Perimeter), Sangmin Choi (Amsterdam), Lucia Cordova (Amsterdam), Temple He (Caltech), Anton Ilderton (Edinburgh), Kristan Jensen (Victoria), Arthur Lipstein (Durham), Maria Nocchi (Stony Brook), Noah Miller (IAS), Gerben Oling (Edinburgh), Natalie Paquette (Washington), Monica Pate (NYU), Kostas Skenderis (Southampton), Evgeny Skvortsov (Mons)

 

Scientific Organizers: Tim Adamo (Edinburgh), David Skinner (Cambridge)

Administrative Contact: Katie Feaster
  • Tuesday 14 April
    • 09:00 09:15
      Welcome 15m
    • 09:15 09:45
      Kristan Jensen (Victoria) -- Troubles in paradise 30m
    • 09:45 10:15
      Gerben Oling (Edinburgh) -- Carroll Approximations of GR and Near-Singularity Dynamics 30m
    • 10:15 10:45
      Refreshment Break 30m
    • 10:45 11:45
      Temple He (Caltech) -- From the Infrared Triangle to Finite Causal Diamonds 1h
    • 11:45 14:00
      Lunch 2h 15m
    • 14:00 14:30
      Evgeny Skvortsov (Mons) -- Holography for self-dual theories 30m
    • 14:30 15:00
      Lucia Cordova (Amsterdam) -- S-matrix Bootstrap and non-invertible symmetries 30m
    • 15:00 15:30
      Refreshment break 30m
    • 15:30 16:00
      Roland Bittleston (Perimeter) -- Self-Dual Gravity from Twistor String Compactifications 30m
    • 16:00 16:30
      Natalie Paquette (Washington) -- Twisting BFSS and IKKT 30m
  • Wednesday 15 April
    • 09:15 09:45
      Sangmin Choi (Amsterdam) -- A Holographic Model for Soft Photons and Gravitons in Four Dimensions 30m
    • 09:45 10:15
      Arthur Lipstein (Durham) -- Towards a Carrollian hologram from AdS/CFT 30m
    • 10:15 10:45
      Refreshment break 30m
    • 10:45 11:45
      Anton Ilderton (Edinburgh) -- Physics in strong fields: perturbing around non-trivial vacua 1h
    • 11:45 14:00
      Lunch 2h 15m
    • 14:00 14:30
      Monica Pate (NYU) -- Light-ray Operators and the w_{1+∞} Algebra 30m
    • 14:30 15:00
      Noah Miller (IAS) -- Lw1+∞ Ward Identities and Trees 30m
    • 15:00 15:30
      Refreshment break 30m
    • 15:30 16:00
      Maria Nocchi (Stony Brook) -- Towards a double-copy picture in AdS 30m
    • 16:00 16:30
      Kostas Skenderis (Southampton) -- The flat-space limit of AdS/CFT in momentum space 30m