Max Planck-IAS-NTU Center Kick-off Conference

March 16 - 19, 2026

Program Organizers:

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study
Giovanni Maria Tomaselli, Institute for Advanced Study
Francisco Vazão, Institute for Advanced Study
Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study
 

This event is the kick-off conference for the Max Planck-IAS-NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology and Geometry. It is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Garching (Germany), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (USA) and the National Taiwan University in Taipei (Taiwan). It aims to bring together researchers from particle physics, cosmology and mathematics to foster collaboration, with the goal of bridging the gaps between these fields, and gain new insights into the universe that would otherwise be inaccessible from the perspective of each field alone.

Some of the topics discussed in this conference will include: quantum field theory, scattering amplitudes, inflationary physics, cosmological correlators, CMB physics, gravitational waves, large-scale structure of the universe, dark matter, positive geometry, algebraic geometry and combinatorics.

For further information on the Max Planck-IAS-NTU Center (MPC) for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry:  New Global Research Center a Rosetta Stone for Understanding the Universe at All Scales, Institute for Advanced Study, June 16, 2025

This workshop is sponsored by the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Collaborative Research at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Contact Audrey Smerkanich, audrey@ias.edu, with any inquiries.