UK-QFT

Important update: change of date for UK-QFT XI

The recently announced strike action affecting the UK rail network on the planned date of UK-QFT will make it difficult for many to travel to Cambridge. In order to allow the greatest fraction of participants to attend and interact in person, we have decided to postpone the meeting to Monday 9th January 2023.


About the UK-QFT meetings

The UK-QFT meetings provide a unique opportunity to bring together researchers from the UK communities (and overseas), who are working at the forefronts of quantum field theory (QFT) and quantum gravity research across high-energy physics, cosmology and astro-particle physics. Past topics have covered both perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of QFT, and included, for example, the quantum effective action, functional renormalization group approaches, non-equilibrium phenomena, phase transitions and topological defects (and all from the mathematical perspective of the underlying QFT description). Postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers are strongly encouraged to attend and present their work through short accessible talks, providing an inspiring and informal environment for early-career researchers (as well as established academics) to engage with one another and the rest of the UK community. The meetings are held on a single day, and there are no registration fees, so as to ensure the widest possible participation.

Previous and future meetings


The eleventh UK-QFT meeting will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Cambridge on January 9, 2023.

The (rescheduled) tenth UK-QFT meeting took place in a hybrid format at King's College London on March 25, 2022.

The ninth UK-QFT meeting took place online on January 8, 2021.

The eight UK-QFT meeting took place at King's College London on November 28, 2019.

The seventh UK-QFT meeting took place at the University of Manchester on November 19, 2018.

The sixth UK-QFT meeting took place at King's College London on March 14, 2017.

The fifth UK-QFT meeting took place at the University of Nottingham on January 15, 2016.

The fourth UK-QFT meeting took place at Imperial College London on March 30, 2015.

The third UK-QFT meeting took place at the University of Southampton on January 24, 2014.

The second UK-QFT meeting took place at the University of Sussex on June 27, 2013.

The first UK-QFT meeting took place at King's College London.

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