Workshops and Conferences

• Elias Kiritsis has given a series of lectures at the "Solvay-Paris-Amsterdam-CERN graduate school" that took place at CERN from November 4-22, 2024. He lectured on non-perturbative string theory and dualities
  
  

• CCTP member Prof. S. Kamvissis has teach an advanced graduate course on "the Riemann-Hilbert merhods in asymptotic analysis problems".
  
  Prof. Kamvissis has tought this course previously in Austria, Japan and much earlier in Crete.
  
  A link to the program from previous incarnations is here.
  
  The time of the lectures is Monday and Friday at 11.15-13:00 in room Γ323 at FORTH Institute.

• The Center has co-organized the workshop "Regional Meeting on String Theory" that took place remotely on July 2, 2024.
  
  

• The Center has organized the workshop "Modern trends in gravity and Black Holes" from June 17-22 2024 in Heraklion.
  
  

• E. Kiritsis coorganized the Workshop "Holography and Dense Matter" from June 11-12, 2024 at APC, Paris.
  
  

• E. Kiritsis coorganized the Triangular Workshop "Cosmological Frontiers of fundamental Physics" from April 19-21 2024 at the University of Edingburgh.
  
  

• Prof. G. Fournodaylos has organized the advanced school "Mathematics of General Relativity and Fluids" at the FORTH Institute from 21 July to 2 August 2024.

• Prof. G. Fournodaylos has organized the conference "Cretan Waves" 9-13 October 2023 at the Math Departement of teh University of Crete.
  
  During this meeting, Prof. D. Christodoulou was inaugurated as a Distinguished professor of the Physics Department.

• The Center has organized the workshop "Conformal Field Theories and Quantum Gravity" from 5-10 June 2023 at the Physics Department of the University of Crete.

• The Center has organized the "Heraklion Workshop on Gauge Theories and Gravity" (A Memorial Meeting for Theodore Tomaras) 1-3 July 2022 at the Physics Department of the University of Crete.

• The Center has organized the 12th Regional Crete Meeting on String theory, 4-10 July 2022 at the Orthodox Academy in Kolymbari.

• The Center has organized the 11th Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory , 19-20 May 2021 by remote participation due to covid restrictions.

• The Center has organized the 10th Regional Crete Meeting on String theory, 15-22 September 2019 at the Orthodox Academy in Kolymbari.

• The Center has organized a minicourse on "Conformal anomalies, C-theorems and RG Flows".
  
  Contents:
  
  -Generalities:Analyticity,Locality,Weyl transformations-Conformal Group
  -Classification and Structure of Weyl Anomalies.The Osborn(local Callan-Symanzik Equation) Equation.
  -The Zamolodchikov Theorem in d=2.
  -Weyl Anomaly Matching and the a-theorem. Alternative arguments for a-theorem.
  -Weyl Anomalies in Holography, Anomalies and the Geometry of Moduli Space
  -More on the Structure of the Osborn Equation.
  
  Lecturer: Adam Schwimmer from Weizmann Institute of Science.
  
  Tuesday 9 April 2019: 14:15-16:00 ( 2nd floor Seminar room)
  
  Wednesday 10 April 2019: 14:15-16:00 (1rst floor seminar room)
  
  Thursday 11 April 2019: 13:15-15:00 ( 1rst floor seminar room)
  
  

• The Center co-organized the conference Gravity, Cosmology and beyond the Standard Model physics . It took place in Paris, 10 - 15 June 2018.

• CCTP member Elias Kiritsis co-organized the triangular workshop Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental physics . It took place in Brussels, 14 - 16 May 2018.

• The Center co-organized the Ninth Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory . It took place in Kolymbari, 10 - 15 July 2017.

• The Center organized a workshop on AdS/CMT and Holographic QCD in Heraklion from September 5-9, 2016.

• Prof. T. Tomaras has organized the Workshop Alternative Gravity and Alternative Matter . It took place in Heraklion, 20-23 May 2015.

• Prof. T. Tomaras has organized the workshop Gravitational Radiation & Black Hole Formation in particle collisions . It took place in Heraklion, 21-24 June 2015.

• CCTP and QCN member Prof C. Panagopoulos has organized conference on Spin-orbit coupling in surface or interface states . It took place in Spetses, 8 - 12 June 2015.

• The Center has co-organized the Eighth Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory . It took place in Nafplion, 5 - 11 July 2015. Participation was by invitation only.

• CCTP and QCN member Prof X. Zotos has organized the conference on Quantum Magnets . It took place in Kolymbari, 13 - 19 September 2015.

• Elias Kiritsis has co-organized the GGI workshop on "Holographic Methods for Strongly Coupled Systems" . It took place at the GGI in Firenze between 09-03-2015 and 30-04-2015.

• The Center together with Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology has organized an international conference on the interface between quantum field theory, string theory and condensed matter physics. It took place in Kolymbari, Crete, from 1-7 September 2014.

• The Center has organized (chair: V. Niarchos) the workshop Exact Quantum Fields and the Structure of M-Theory. It took place at the Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Heraklion, Crete, 10 - 16 July 2014.

• M. Järvinen has co-organized the workshop Holographic Inhomogeneities. It took place in Amsterdam, 7 - 9 April 2014.

• The Center has co-organized the 7th Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory. It took place at the Orthodox Academy in Kolymbari, 16-23 June 2013.

• Prof. E. Kiritsis has co-organized a meeting to honour the 60th birthday of C. Kounnas. It has taken place in Cyprus, 28-29 September 2012.

• Prof. N. Tsamis has organized a workshop on the Physics of de Sitter Space-Time. It took place at AEI in Hannover, 11-14 September 2012.

• The Center has organized the workshop Gravity theories and their avatars . It took place in Heraklion, 13-19 July 2012.

• E. Kiritsis has co-organized a workshop that focused on the recent experimental results on superluminal neutrinos and the associated theoretical context. It has taken place at APC in Paris, 12-13 January 2012.

• Prof. E. Kiritsis has co-organized the workshop Holographic Techniques for Condensed Matter that focused on holographic applications to condensed matter physics. It has taken place in Paris, 16-18 November 2011.

• Prof. E. Kiritsis has co-organized the 6th Crete Regional meeting on String Theory. It took place in the Island of Milos, from 18-26 June 2011.

• Prof. T. Petkou has co-organized the workshop AdS4/CFT3 and the Holographic States of Matter at the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence, from 30 August to 5 November 2010.

• Prof. E. Kiritsis has co-organized the advanced school and workshop School and Workshop on D-brane Instantons, Wall Crossing and Microstate Counting from 15-21 November 2010.

• The Center has organized a workshop on Cosmology in Heraklion 28 March-5 April 2010.

• The Center has organized a conference on High Energy Physics from 11-18 September 2010.

• The Fifth Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory has taken place in Kolymbari from June 28-July 6 2009

• An informal workshop on applications of AdS/CFT to condensed matter problems has taken place in Heraklion 8-12 May 2009.

• The Fourth Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory has taken place in Patras from June 10-17 2007.

• The 1st Young Researchers Workshop has taken place in Heraklion, Crete from 15 - 28 October 2005.

• The Third Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory has taken place in the Orthodox Academy of Crete from June 23 - July 2 2005.

• RTN-EXT Meeting in String Theory, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, September 5-10, 2004.

• The Second Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory has taken place in the Orthodox Academy of Crete, during 19-28 June 2003.

• Quantum Gravity and Random Geometry has taken place on September 7th-15th, 2002 in the Orthodox Academy of Crete.
  The web page can be found here

• The annual meeting of the Greek High Energy Physics community was held in the Physics Department of the University of Crete, Heraklion, from 6-8 April 2001.

• The Superstring Theory RTN Workshop has taken place in the Physics Department in Heraklion, 8-22 April 2001.

• The Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory has taken place in the Orthodox Academy of Crete, 10-20 June 2001.

• Euroconference "Quantum Fields and Strings", part I in the Series "Particle Physics and Gravitation".

• The ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE HELLENIC SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, at the Physics Department, University of Crete, 20-22 April 1997

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Advanced International Schools

• The Center has organized an international course on Non-perturbative Quantum Field Theory . It has taken place in Heraklion, 1-28 April 2013.

• The Center has co-organized together with the Athens Polytechnic group the 6th Aegean Summer School that focused on Quantum Corrections in Cosmology. It has taken place from 12-17 September 2011 in the island of Naxos.

• Prof. E. Kiritsis has co-organized the advanced school and workshop School and Workshop on D-brane Instantons, Wall Crossing and Microstate Counting from 15-21 November 2010.

• The Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series has had a fundamental theoretical physics series of lectures (fields and strings) from 5-9 July 2004. Main speaker: Edward Witten. Lecturers are I. Bakas, E. Kiritsis, I. Klebanov, C. Nappi, A. Sen, K. Skenderis and E. Witten . (Lectures' website)

• The International School of High Energy Physics has taken place in Heraklion from September 1, 2003 - November 1, 2003.

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