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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

https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/

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 registration can be found at this link. Applications for registration will be considered until the 30th April. 

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. 

 

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.

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