Workshop video archive

Advances in black hole theory.

Recorded seminars from the workshop

20-24 July, 2026 at IISER Pune


Day 1

Semi universality at subleading orders, Shiraz Minwalla, TIFR Mumbai

Logarithmic charge-ratio corrections in black hole entropy, Muktajyoti Saha, ICTS Bengaluru

Symplectic Structures and Hamiltonians Beyond Local Field Theory, Mohd Ali, ICTS Bengaluru

A Holographic Map from AdS3 to CFT2, Ronak Soni, CMI Chennai

Why supergravity needs string theory, Ashoke Sen, ICTS Bengaluru

Gong Show:
A Roy
Arundhati Goldar
Banashree Baishya
Biswajit Bhowmick
Deep Mazumder
Indranil Dey
Manish Ramachander
Priyadarshini Pandit
Shubhashis Mallick
Subhodeep Sarkar
Subhodip Bandyopadhyay
Vivek Singh

Day 2

Holography for degenerate boundaries, Marika Taylor, U. Birmingham

Index saddle for small black ring, Amitabh Virmani, CMI Chennai

Fake temperature and ground truths in de Sitter space, Sandip Trivedi, TIFR Mumbai

Complex saddles of AdS gravitational partition function, Gaurav Narain, IISc Bengaluru

Are the quasi-normal modes stable?, Sumanta Chakraborty, IACS Kolkata

Day 3

A comparison between Wald and Wall entropy for black holes in higher derivative theories of gravity, Sayantani Bhattacharyya, U. Edinburgh

Bulges in the Gravitational Path Integral, Pratik Rath, TIFR Mumbai

Quantum Gravity from Open Strings, Roji Pius, IMSc Chennai

Wigner negativity, random matrices and gravity, Onkar Parrikar, TIFR Mumbai

Edge modes in continuum QFT: Abelian gauge theory with scalar matter, Alok Laddha, CMI Chennai

Black Flower microstates, Suvankar Dutta, IISER Bhopal

Day 4

Finite N and the Giant Graviton Expansion, Sameer Murthy, King's College London

Light-like limit of retarded correlators and the horizon, Justin David, IISc Bengaluru

Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk geometry, Shreya Vardhan, Stanford U.

Supersymmetric Vacua and Attractors in Four-Dimensional N=4 Supergravity, Bindusar Sahoo, IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Index saddle for the D1-D5-P black string, Shanmugapriya Prakasam, ICTS Bengaluru

The magic of the gravitational vacuum, Samir Mathur, Ohio State U.

Day 5

New punctures for six-dimensional CFT compactifications, Alessandro Tomasiello, U. Milan

Complex black holes in AdS, Kaustubh Singhi, ICTS Bengaluru

Holographic Renormalization and AdS/CFT at loop order, Kostas Skenderis, U. Southampton

Public lecture Event: Beyond Darkness: The Black Hole Frontier

Black holes aren't black!, Vardarajan Suneeta, IISER Pune

What are black holes made of?, Nabamita Banerjee, IISER Bhopal

Black holes and quantum computers, Marika Taylor, U. Birmingham

This workshop was generously supported by The Gravity Theory Trust.