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
    • 1
      Welcome
    • 2
      Kristan Jensen (Victoria) -- Troubles in paradise
    • 3
      Gerben Oling (Edinburgh) -- Carroll Approximations of GR and Near-Singularity Dynamics
    • 10:15
      Refreshment Break
    • 4
      Temple He (Caltech) -- From the Infrared Triangle to Finite Causal Diamonds
    • 11:45
      Lunch
    • 5
      Evgeny Skvortsov (Mons) -- Holography for self-dual theories
    • 6
      Lucia Cordova (Amsterdam) -- S-matrix Bootstrap and non-invertible symmetries
    • 15:00
      Refreshment break
    • 7
      Roland Bittleston (Perimeter) -- Self-Dual Gravity from Twistor String Compactifications
    • 8
      Natalie Paquette (Washington) -- Twisting BFSS and IKKT
  • Wednesday 15 April
    • 9
      Sangmin Choi (Amsterdam) -- A Holographic Model for Soft Photons and Gravitons in Four Dimensions
    • 10
      Arthur Lipstein (Durham) -- Towards a Carrollian hologram from AdS/CFT
    • 10:15
      Refreshment break
    • 11
      Anton Ilderton (Edinburgh) -- Physics in strong fields: perturbing around non-trivial vacua
    • 11:45
      Lunch
    • 12
      Monica Pate (NYU) -- Light-ray Operators and the w_{1+∞} Algebra
    • 13
      Noah Miller (IAS) -- Lw1+∞ Ward Identities and Trees
    • 15:00
      Refreshment break
    • 14
      Maria Nocchi (Stony Brook) -- Towards a double-copy picture in AdS
    • 15
      Kostas Skenderis (Southampton) -- The flat-space limit of AdS/CFT in momentum space