Workshop on Liouville Theory: Spacelike, Timelike and Beyond 

September 30 - October 2, 2026

Link to Workshop Schedule

Workshop Announcements

• Luggage drop will be located in Rubenstein Commons Meeting Room 5 on Friday, October 2nd
   
• Wednesday through Friday: Coffee and tea will be available for workshop participants before the talks begin outside of Rubenstein Commons Meeting Room 5.  Please note that breakfast items will not be served.  A mid-morning coffee break will also be served with a selection of petite pastries.
   
• Wednesday, September 30th only: afternoon tea will take place in the Bloomberg Hall Common Room beginning at 3:00pm.  
   
• Afternoon tea on Thursday, October 1st will take place at 3:00pm outside of Rubenstein Commons Meeting Room 5.
   
• Please wear your workshop name badge at all times as it serves as your ticket for all meals.
   
• The daily lunch menu is available here: https://www.ias.edu/dining/lunch. Note that lunch begins at 1:00pm in Simons Hall and the servery doors close at 1:30pm.  Lunch includes choice of one hot entree, dessert and a soft drink.
   

• Registration begins at 9:00am on Wednesday, September 30th outside of Rubenstein Commons Meeting Room 5.  

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This workshop will bring together mathematicians and physicists that have made important contributions to Liouville theory.

Program Organizers:

Andreas Blommaert, Institute for Advanced Study
Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study
Beatrix Muehlmann, Institute for Advanced Study

Confirmed Participants:
Kuroush Allameh, UC Santa Cruz
Dionysios Anninos, Kings College London
Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University
Scott Collier, Syracuse University
Gaston Giribet, New York University
Joel Karlsson, KU Leuven/Cambridge
Thomas Mertens, Ghent University
Remi Rhodes, Aix Marseille University 
Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Cruz
Joerg Teschner, DESY Hamburg
Damiano Tietto, Princeton University
Ioannis Tsiares, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Romain Usciati, Université Paris Saclay
Yifan Wang, New York University
Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study
Themistocles Zikopoulos, Harvard University
 
This workshop will be held in person only.  

Contact Audrey Smerkanich, [email protected], with any inquiries.