Talks

A reverse-chronological list of seminars, colloquia, plenary talks, and lecture series. Dates follow the DD/MM/YYYY convention.

Where I've spoken

Each marker is a venue; click to see every talk I gave there. Colours distinguish talk types; the legend toggles individual categories. Zoom with the scroll wheel or the +/− controls.

Upcoming

• 21/08/2026 — Seminar, Peking University, Beijing, China

• 20/08/2026 — AI and string math workshop, BIMSA, Beijing, China

• 22/06/2026 — The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry — Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI), Vienna, Austria · lectures: “How toric geometry is used in string cosmology and phenomenology”

Invited plenary talks and lectures

• 08/06/2026 — AI reasoning workshop, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, USA

• 28/05/2026 — String Theory and the Observable Universe, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, USA · arXiv:2405.08871, arXiv:2306.06160, arXiv:1907.10072

• 19/05/2026 — String field theory and flux compactification, Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque, Spain · arXiv:2205.11530, arXiv:2507.07934

• 30/01/2026 — BIRS–CMI Workshop on Recent Progress in Computational String Geometry, CMI, Chennai, India · arXiv:2512.14817

• 08/12/2025 — String Data 2025, London, UK

• 04/11/2025 — Dark World to Swampland 2025, Madrid, Spain

• 09/09/2025 — Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Strings, Corfu, Greece

• 24/06/2025 — 14th Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory, Crete, Greece

• 17/01/2025 — Prospects for the String Axiverse, Banff, Canada · arXiv:2405.08871, arXiv:2306.06160, arXiv:2501.03984

• 23/10/2024 — WISPs in String Cosmology, University of Bologna, Italy

• 08/09/2024 — Quantum Gravity, Strings and the Swampland, Corfu, Greece

• 24/06/2024 — String Phenomenology 2024, University of Padova, Italy

• 22/03/2024 — Geometry, Strings and the Swampland Program, Ringberg Castle, Germany

• 09/11/2023 — ML4Jets 2023, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

• 30/06/2023 — String Theory, Geometry and Machine Learning, UNIST, South Korea

• 16/12/2016 — Gauge Field Dynamics with Ultracold Gas Systems (WE-Heraeus-Seminar, plenary talk & poster), Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany

Lecture series

• 18/12/2024 — Avogadro Meeting 2024, Complesso dei Santi Marcellino e Festo, Napoli, Italy · lectures: “Lectures on Machine Learning Techniques in the String Landscape” · slides

Invited seminars

• 06/05/2026 — MIT seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA · arXiv:2205.11530, arXiv:2507.07934

• 09/04/2026 — Rencontres Théoriciennes, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France · arXiv:2205.11530, arXiv:2507.07934

• 30/03/2026 — HEP seminar, University of Toronto, Canada · arXiv:2406.13751

• 24/11/2025 — Cosmology Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK

• 13/03/2025 — Seminar talk, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

• 11/01/2024 — Seminar, L2C, Montpellier, France

• 02/11/2023 — Seminar, LMU Munich, Germany

• 09/01/2023 — Seminar, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA

• 11/01/2022 — Seminar Series on String Phenomenology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

• 20/12/2021 — Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• 08/12/2021 — Seminar, TPG, Imperial College London, UK

• 06/10/2021 — Seminar, ITP, Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany

• 02/07/2021 — Seminar, DIFA, University of Bologna, Italy

• 11/05/2021 — Seminar Series on String Phenomenology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

• 16/12/2019 — Seminar, ITP, Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany

• 05/04/2019 — Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Colloquia

• 16/12/2024 — Colloquium, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

• 08/02/2024 — Colloquium, ITP, Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany

Contributed talks and posters

• 11/12/2024 — String Data 2024, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan

• 05/09/2024 — 2nd General Meeting of COST Action COSMIC WISPers, Istanbul, Turkey

• 06/07/2023 — String Phenomenology 2023, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

• 18/07/2022 — Strings 2022, University of Vienna, Austria

• 05/07/2022 — String Phenomenology 2022, University of Liverpool, UK

• 13/11/2021 — Fundamental Physics UK (FPUK) — Semi-In-Person Meeting

• 27/08/2021 — SUSY 2021, Maynooth University, Ireland (online)

• 20/05/2021 — PPC 2021 — Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA (online)

• 07/01/2020 — String Data 2020, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, NY, USA

• 27/06/2019 — String Phenomenology 2019, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland