Bethe Forum
Bootstrap Approaches to Scattering Amplitudes
September 14 - 18, 2026
Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Wegelerstraße 10, 53115 Bonn (Germany)
The Bethe Center for Theoretical physics hosts the workshop “Bootstrap Approaches to Scattering Amplitudes” during the week September 14 -18, 2026.
In recent years, a revival of bootstrap techniques has been particularly striking in the area of scattering amplitudes, with applications branching out into more and more directions. The incentive of this week-long workshop is to bring together experts on perturbative and non-perturbative bootstrap approaches to amplitudes in a broad sense. Topics include curved space or string amplitudes, 2d S-matrix bootstrap, CFT methods, cosmological correlators or QCD. We plan a light program with ample time for interactions and discussions with workshop participants and locals in Bonn.
Speakers include:
Elisabetta Armanini (CERN and EPFL Lausanne)
Paolo Benincasa (MPP Munich and Santiago de Compostela)
Justin Berman (Michigan University)
Lance Dixon (SLAC)
Laura Donnay* (SISSA Trieste)
Giulia Fardelli (Boston University)
Andrea Guerrieri (City University London)
Yifei He (ENS Paris)
Elli Pomoni (DESY and Hamburg University)
Francesco Riva (Geneva University)
Charlotte Sleight* (Naples Univesity)
Sasha Zhiboedov (CERN)
Xinan Zhou* (GUCAS and KITPC Beijing)
* to be confirmed
Organizers:
Agnese Bissi
Claude Duhr
Florian Loebbert
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