The GravUC Winter School and Workshop 2026 is an in-person program for the Theoretical High Energy Physics community. This event is divided into two segments:
Workshop (July 27–29): Research presentations and discussions featuring contributed talks and a gong show.
School (July 30–August 5): Six minicourses in Classical and Quantum Gravity taught by leading experts, culminating in a poster session.
Máximo Bañados
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"Two-dimensional Palatini Gauss-Bonnet theory"
Alejandra Castro
(Cambridge University)
"Engineering Gravity from CFT"
Chiara Toldo
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
"Thermodynamics of near extremal Kerr black holes"
Rodrigo Aros
(Universidad Andrés Bello)
"Spinors in Curved Space"
Rafael Bravo
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"An Introduction to Effective Field Theories in Cosmology"
Alberto Faraggi
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"Introduction to Holographic Wilson Loops"
Marina Huerta
(Centro Atómico Bariloche)
"Entanglement Entropy in QFT"
Macarena Lagos
(Universidad Andrés Bello)
"Gravitational Waves"
[Lectures 1, 2, 3]
Francisco Barriga Delgadillo
(Universidad del Bío-Bío)
"Non-Relativistic Chern–Simons Supergravity with Torsion"
Matías Castillo
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"The Quantum Structure of Holographic Renormalization: 1-Loop Solutions and Effective Parameters"
Nicolás Cáceres
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"From condensed matter to black holes... and back"
Amaro Díaz
(Universidad de Concepción)
"Magnetized Dynamical Black Holes"
Mauricio Gamonal
(Pennsylvania State University)
"An Invitation to Spinfoams Through Cosmology"
Matías Gallardo
(Universidad de Barcelona)
"Electromagnetic Quasitopological Gravities as 2D Horndeski Theories"
Robinson Mancilla
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
"Quantum corrections to the Near-Extremal Thermodynamics of (warped) BTZ Black Holes"
Pablo Pereira
(Universidad Andrés Bello)
"Fermionic torsional dark matter"
Claudio Pérez
(Universidad Arturo Prat)
"Polylogarithmic matching at spatial infinity: the massless scalar field"
Cielo Ramírez de Arellano Torres
(Universidad de Concepción)
"Logarithmic corrections to the entropy of near-extremal black holes in New Massive Gravity"
Simón Riquelme
(Universidad San Sebastián)
"Superfluid phonons as a laboratory for inflationary EFT: quartic matching, forward data, and finite-density effects"
Juan Pablo Alvarado
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"Killing Spinors in Extremal Black D3-Brane Background: From 1/2-BPS Solutions to Maximal Supersymmetry"
Andrés Lueiza Colipí
(Universidad de la Frontera)
"Dirac–Bergmann algorithm and canonical quantization of k-essence cosmology"
Ignacio Mansilla Hidalgo
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"Variational Methods for Holographic Renormalization in Flat Spacetime"
Maickol Muñoz
(Universidad de la Frontera)
"Memory effect in compactified Heterotic String Theory"
Ernesto Bianchi
(University of Naples Federico II)
"AdS/CFT Invariants and Witten Diagrams"
Lucas Bravo
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"Reconstructing Geometries from the AdS_3 Particle Spectrum in Palatini-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity"
Fabián Caro-Pérez
(Universidad de Antofagasta)
"Non-Invertible Symmetries in Compactified Supergravities"
Antonia Cisternas
(Universidad de Chile)
"Parity-violating gravitational waves and their effects on Cosmic Microwave Background polarization"
Erick Cortés
(Universidad Andrés Bello)
"TBA"
Alejandro Hidalgo
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
"Thermodynamics of STU Black Holes in D=4"
Benjamín Mellado
(Universidad de Concepción)
"Non-relativistic qqbar potential at finite temperature and rotation"
Juan Oviedo
(Universidad Andrés Bello)
"Eikonal aproximation in thin lens"
Israel Trangolao
(Universidad de Santiago de Chile)
"Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in Thermostatistical Systems"
The GravUC Winter School and Workshop 2026 will take place in the following locations:
Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31: Classroom N13-A
Monday, August 3 to Tuesday, August 4: Classroom CS101
Wednesday, August 5: Auditorium Ninoslav Bralić
The map at https://ubicate.osuc.dev/?campus=SanJoaquin shows classrooms, nearby restrooms, and food options around the campus.
There is no registration fee, and coffee breaks will be provided during the event.
However, we are unable to provide lunch or any other form of financial support.
LINK:
https://forms.gle/G3w8KY6fw2nfaiv8A
The deadline for registration is July 10.
WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING REGISTRATIONS.
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