From Good Cuts to Celestial Holography
A Simons Celestial Holography Collaboration Workshop
7 - 11 July 2025
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
Arrival Sunday evening on the 6th, and departure Friday 11th 5pm.
Theme
Celestial holography has drawn together ideas from conventional AdS/CFT holography with studies of flat space asymptotics at null infinity, asymptotic quantization, scattering amplitudes, Carrollian holography, Twistor theory and twisted holography. This meeting will draw together experts on these various areas with a focus on asymptotic structure, symmetries, amplitudes and correlation functions, and the holographic theories that give rise to them. There will be an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of Ted Newman's early work on flat space holography and instructional lectures on the more twistorial celestial holography frameworks that that work led to.
Speakers
Tim Adamo, Bernardo Araneda, Abhay Ashtekar, Lydia Bieri, Jordan Cotler, Silvia Nagy, Sabrina Pasterski*, Roger Penrose, Andrea Puhm, David Skinner, Zhenya Skvortsov, Andy Strominger, Robert Wald .
Instructional lecture courses by Roland Bittleston and Atul Sharma.
(*=to be confirmed)
Conference office
Helen McGregor: Helen.McGregor@maths.ox.ac.uk
Registration
Attendance will be for registered participants only. The application form for checking your registration details can be found at this link. Registration is now closed, although enquiries can be sent to the conference office.
Travel and Accommodation
Accommodation and meals will be provided by St Anthony's College, where the lectures will also be held. There is some support available for accommodation and meals for participants.
Please make your own travel arrangements. See here for general information on travel to Oxford and here for St Anthony's College.
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Social Events
Drinks Reception
There will be a drinks reception on the evening of 7 July
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 10 July at St Anthony's college.
Committee
Niklas Garner, Lionel Mason, Romain Ruzziconi, Akshay Yelleshpur-Srikant
Funding
This conference is supported by the Simons Foundation.
