PiTP 2026

Pre-Reading Materials
 

Updated: 7/13/26

Suggested PiTP 2026 pre-reading materials are now available.  Please check back frequently as we will update this list as new information becomes available.

Roland Bittleston

Note: familiarity with non-Abelian gauge theory, Lie algebras/groups and differential geometry (particularly differential forms) would be useful. 

Kasia Budzik

(1)  Basics of supersymmetry and AdS/CFT, e.g. sections 1.1,1.2, 2.1.3, 3.1 of "Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity”, O. Aharony, S.S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz, https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905111

Simon Caron-Huot

(1) David Simmons-Duffin, TASI lectures on the conformal bootstrap. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07982

(2) Slava Rychkov, EPFL Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D>3 Dimensions.  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.05000

Lance Dixon

(1) "The infrared structure of perturbative gauge theories," Neelima Agarwal (Chaitanya Bharathi Inst. Tech.), Lorenzo Magnea(CERN and INFN, Turin and Turin U.), Chiara Signorile-Signorile(KIT, Karlsruhe, IAP), Anurag Tripathi(Indian Inst. Tech., Hyderabad). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.07099

Elizabeth Himwich

(1) "Lectures on Celestial Amplitudes" by Sabrina Pasterksi: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04801

(2) "Lectures on Celestial Holography" by Ana-Maria Raclariu: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02075

(3) "Lectures on the Infrared Structure of Gauge Theory and Gravity" (a book) by Andy Strominger: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05448 

Henry Lin

(1) Henry Lin, TASI lectures on Matrix Theory from a modern viewpoint. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20970
 

Ian Moult

(1) Ian Moult and Hua Xing Zhu, Energy Correlators: A Journey From Theory to Experiment, https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09119

(2) Diego M. Hofman and Juan Maldacena, Conformal collider physics: Energy and charge correlations, https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1467