Theories of the Fundamental Interactions is a bi-annual meeting, organized by the INFN networks GAST, GSS and ST&FI, which gathers expert and young researchers within the Italian scientific community. The 9th meeting will take place at the center Paolo VI in Brescia from May 25th to May 27th, 2026.
The conference will focus on several aspects of high-energy physics such as: perturbative and non-perturbative quantum field theory, classical and quantum gravity, the holographic principle, conformal field theories, integrable models, supergravity, black holes, quantum information, and applications to cosmology and condensed matter physics.
The program will include three review lectures, regular talks given by young researchers, and a poster session (where participation from senior master students, PhD students and young postdocs will be encouraged).
Review talks
-- Dionysios Anninos (King's College, London)
-- Zohar Komargodski (Simons Center for Gravity and Physics, Stony Brook)
-- Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN)
Regular talks
-- Mohammad Reza Akhond (Roma Tor Vergata)
-- Ivano Basile (MPI Munich)
-- Faizan Baht (Genova)
-- Alessandro Borys (Catania)
-- Nicolò Brizio (Padova)
-- Federico Carta (Bologna)
-- Valerio Descontus (Roma Tre)
-- Alessandro Duci (Milano Bicocca)
-- Francesco Galvagno (Torino)
-- Hengyuan Guo (Pisa)
-- Chrysoula Markou (Pisa)
-- Pierluigi Niro (Trieste)
-- Tommaso Pedroni (Trieste)
-- Paolo Pergola (Napoli)
-- Nicolò Petri (Milano)
-- Natalia Pinzani Fokeeva (Firenze)
-- Andrea Placidi (Perugia)
-- Alejandro Ruipérez (Padova)
-- Palash Singh (Milano Bicocca)
-- Diego Trancanelli (Bologna)
-- Rudolfs Treilis (Parma)
Poster session
Those who wish to present their work at the Poster Session are invited to send a message with a title and an abstract of their work to tfi2026@lists.infn.it with the Object: Poster Presentation TFI 2026 by April 30th 2026.
Local organizers
Roberto Auzzi, Stefano Baiguera, Lihan Guo, Giuseppe Nardelli, Marta Orselli
Scientific advisory board
Davide Cassani (Padova), Marialuisa Frau (Torino), Domenico Seminara (Firenze)
Social dinner
The social dinner will take place at "Antica Salumeria e Trattoria Porteri" (https://www.porteri.it/), located close to the city centre (map), on Tuesday 26th May at 20.00.
Important:
1) Please fill the survey https://agenda.infn.it/event/48355/surveys/ to let us count the number of participants, and specify your dietary restrictions.
2) There are at most 110 places at the restaurant. If we will exceed this number, only the first 110 people subscribed to the conference will be able to attend the social dinner.
Practical Informations
Rooms at the venue of the conference (Paolo VI) are NOT automatically reserved to the participants, rather each participant should book their room individually. We suggest the participants to book their room in advance following the link. The payment of the rooms is usually done in advance, but many rooms have the option of a free cancellation until the day of the conference itself.
Alternatively, participants are free to consult other websites and individually book a place of their preference.
The center Paolo VI is located in the center of Brescia, and it is easily reachable by walk from the stop "Vittoria" of the metro. The metro can be taken from the railway station. Pratical informations on public transport within Brescia can be found here.
Brescia is reachable by train (including high-speed lines from the main italian cities), see Trenitalia and Italo for more information. People coming by flight can go to the airports of Milano Malpensa, Linate or Bergamo and then reach Brescia by train.