Strings and Geometry 2026

19 May 2026, 09:00 → 22 May 2026, 14:00 Europe/Stockholm

Hall X (Universitetshuset)

Beware: It was reported to us that scammers are sending to participants fraudulent e-mails about accomodation/fees. Please be particularly cautious about e-mails not coming from the organisers nor from an uu.se address.

 

The Strings and Geometry conference is a continuation of the series of conferences "Physics and Geometry of F-theory", established in 2012. After it was renamed in 2019, it brings together leading international experts working more broadly at the interface of string theory and mathematics. Topics of the 2026 edition include: Mathematical aspects of string compactifications, geometric engineering of field theories, symmetries in their various incarnations, as well as geometrical aspects of the swampland program.

More details about the conference will appear on this webpage closer to the event.

SPEAKERS

Acharya, Bobby (ICTP)

Apruzzi, Fabio (Padova U)

Castellano, Alberto (Chicago U)

Collinucci, Andrés (ULB)

Cvetič, Mirjam (UPenn)

Delgado, Matilda (Harvard U)

De Marco, Mario (ULB)

Dierigl, Markus (CERN)

García Etxebarria, Iñaki (Durham U)

Graña, Mariana (Saclay)

Grimm, Thomas (Utrecht U)

Grimminger, Julius (Oxford U)

Heckman, Jonathan (UPenn)

Kim, Hee-Cheol (POSTECH)

Lawrie, Craig (DESY)

Lin, Ling (Bologna U)

Lockhart, Guglielmo (Bonn U)

Lüst, Severin (LPTHE)

Marchesano, Fernando (Madrid U)

Montero, Miguel (Madrid U)

Moritz, Jacob (UW-Madison)

Parra de Freitas, Hector (Harvard U)

Rudelius, Thomas (Durham U)

Shiu, Gary (UW-Madison)

Tarazi, Houri (Chicago U)

Tomasiello, Alessandro (Milan Bicocca)

Vafa, Cumrun (Harvard U)

Valandro, Roberto (Trieste U)

Valenzuela, Irene (Madrid U)

Wang, Yi-Nan (Peking U)

Weigand, Timo (Hamburg U)

Wiesner, Max (DESY)

 

Center For Geometry and Physics

Uppsala University

 

 

 

Tuesday, 19 May

09:00 → 09:25 Shiu

09:30 → 09:55 Castellano

10:00 → 10:25 Rudelius

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:25 Tomasiello

11:30 → 11:55 Delgado

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

Lunch is not provided, plenty of options for lunch can be found in the nearby city center -- see the practical info tab for some links

14:00 → 14:25 Lockhart

14:30 → 14:55 Heckman

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 15:55 Acharya

16:00 → 16:25 Dierigl

16:30 → 16:45 Short break

16:45 → 17:10 Lawrie

17:15 → 17:40 Lin

17:40 → 19:30 Reception and Poster Session

Wednesday, 20 May

09:00 → 09:25 Grimminger

09:30 → 09:55 Valandro

10:00 → 10:25 Prieto

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:25 Wiesner

11:30 → 11:55 Montero

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:25 Graña

14:30 → 14:55 Apruzzi

16:00 → 17:30 OUTREACH EVENT - Cumrun Vafa - String Theory and The Dark Sector

The dark sector — comprising dark energy and dark matter — has remained a profound mystery for decades. In this talk, Cumrun Vafa will review this subject and show how string theory naturally leads to a predictive framework for a unified dark sector. He will also discuss how these string-theoretic predictions align with exciting recent cosmological observations.

https://www.uu.se/en/centre/geometry-and-physics/events-and-seminars/archive/2026-05-20-string-theory-and-the-dark-sector

Thursday, 21 May

09:00 → 09:25 Weigand

09:30 → 09:55 Valenzuela

10:00 → 10:25 Marchesano

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:25 Vafa

11:30 → 11:55 Parra de Freitas

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:25 Cvetic

14:30 → 14:55 García Etxebarria

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 15:55 Kim

16:00 → 16:25 Moritz

Friday, 22 May

09:00 → 09:25 Tarazi

09:30 → 09:55 Collinucci

10:00 → 10:25 Lüst

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:25 Wang

11:30 → 11:55 De Marco