Invited talks

  1. Recent Advances in Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity, presentation given at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, November 2021

  2. Recent Advances in Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity, presentation given via Zoom at the Second Joint PRIN Seminar of 2021-22 in Italy, November 2021

  3. Recent Advances in Non-relativistic Quantum Gravity, presentation given at the University of Barcelona, November 2021

  4. New Developments in Non-relativistic String Theory, seminar given via Zoom at the Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany), May 2020

  5. New Developments in Non-relativistic String Theory, seminar given via Zoom at the New York University (NYU), New York (USA), April 2020

  6. New Developments in Non-relativistic String Theory, seminar given via Zoom at the University of Groningen, April 2020

  7. Non-relativistic String Theory and Branes, invited talk given at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, November 2019

  8. Non-relativistic String Theory and Branes, invited talk given at the University of Barcelona, November 2019

  9. Non-relativistic Gravity, invited talk given at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Edinburgh, October 2019/p>

  10. String Theory and Non-relativistic Gravity, invited talk given in Muenchen, July 2019

  11. Lie Algebra expansions and Actions for Non-relativistic Gravity, invited talk given in Barcelona, April 2019

  12. Gravity and the planar spin-2 Schroedinger equation, invited talk given at the Niels Bohr institute, Copenhagen, June 2018

  13. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at the university of Toronto, May 2018

  14. Limits of General Relativity, cosmology group seminar given at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (Canada), May 2018

  15. Gravity and the planar spin-2 Schroedinger equation, invited talk given at the university of Illinois, Urbana (USA), May 2018

  16. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at the Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, April 2018

  17. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at Virginia Tech University (USA), April 2018

  18. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, Quantum Fields and Strings seminar given at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (Canada), April 2018

  19. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at the Masaryk university, Brno (Czechoslovakia), March 2018

  20. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czechoslovakia), February 2018

  21. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at the Albert-Einstein-Institute (AEI), Potsdam (Germany), February 2018

  22. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at the Radbout Universiteit, Nijmegen, December 2017

  23. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given in Tours (France), November 2017

  24. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), Paris, November 2017

  25. Newton-Cartan Gravity and Torsion, invited talk given at the Laboratoire Astroparticule and Cosmology Institute (APC), Paris, October 2017

  26. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given in in Saclay, Paris, October 2017

  27. Newton-Cartan Gravity in Action, invited talk given in Lyon (France), October 2017

  28. Non-relativistic Limits and Massive Gravity, talk given at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago (USA), July 2017

  29. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, May 2017

  30. Beyond Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at Texas A& M University in College Station (USA), April 2017

  31. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at the University of Vienna (Austria), March 2017

  32. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at the City College of the CUNY, New York (USA), March 2017

  33. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at the Universitat de Barcelona, January 2017

  34. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at Texas A&M University, College Station (USA), December 2016

  35. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at NYU, New York (USA), December 2016

  36. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, three lectures given at the Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chili, November 2016

  37. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at the Tor Vergata University, Rome (Italy), November 2016

  38. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given in in Padova (Italy), October 2016

  39. Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, talk given at the McGill University, Montreal (Canada), March 2016

  40. Supergravity and the Cosmological Constant, talk given in Istanbul, December 2015

  41. Supergravity and the Cosmological Constant, talk given in Uppsala (Sweden), October 2015

  42. Supergravity and the Cosmological Constant, talk given in Mons (Belgium), October 2015

  43. Non-relativistic Gravity, talk given in Amsterdam, September 2015

  44. Non-relativistic Gravity, talk given in Vienna (Austria), May 2015

  45. Supergravity, T-duality and Double Field Theory, talk given in Cambridge (United Kingdom), March 2015

  46. Developments in 3D Gravity, talk given at Brandeis University, Boston (USA), February 2015

  47. Supergravity, T-duality and Double Field Theory, talk given at MIT, Boston (USA), February 2015

  48. Supergravity, T-duality and Double Field Theory, talk given in Barcelona (Spain), February 2015

  49. Exotic Branes and Non-Geometric Fluxes, talk given at Milano Bicocca, Milano (Italy), November 2014

  50. An Update on Massive Gravity, talk given at the Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello (UNAB), Santiago (Chili), November 2013

  51. An Update on Massive Gravity, talk given at the University of Buenos Aires & CONICET, Buenos Aires (Argentina), October 2013

  52. Newton-Cartan Supergravity, talk given in Barcelona (Spain), October 2013

  53. Branes and Geometry, talk given in Hannover (Germany), October 2013

  54. Newton-Cartan Supergravity, invited talk given at the international workshop Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries (SQS’2013), Dubna, Russia, July 2013

  55. Branes and Supergravity, invited talk given in in München, Germany, July 2013

  56. The Supermembrane 25 Years Later, invited talk given in Trieste, Italy, June 2013

  57. A short review of New Massive Gravity, invited talk given at the Università della Sapienza, Rome, November 2012

  58. A Closer Look at Gravity, Physics Colloquium, Groningen, November 2012

  59. A short review of New Massive Gravity, invited talk given at Stanford (USA), November 2012

  60. A Different Look at Massive Gravity , invited talk given at the University of Davis (USA), November 2012

  61. Massive Higher-Derivative Gravity, invited talk given at the IHES, Paris (France), May 2012

  62. New Results on Massive Gravity, invited talk given at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (United Kingdom), March 2012

  63. Which Symmetries Underly String Theory?, Mathematics Colloquium given in Groningen, February 2012

  64. Branes and Monopoles, invited talk given at King’s College, London, November 2011

  65. Branes and Monopoles, invited talk given in Barcelona (Spain), November 2011

  66. Branes and Monopoles, invited talk given in Madrid (Spain), October 2011

  67. New Results on Supersymmetric Solitons in String Theory, invited talk given in Bruxelles, June 2011

  68. Supersymmetric Solitons, invited talk given at New York University, June 2011

  69. Surprises with Gravity in Three and Four Dimensions, invited talk given at King’s college, London, March 2011

  70. D-Branes and Doubled Geometry, invited talk given in College Station (USA), November 2010

  71. D-Brane Wess-Zumino Terms and U-Duality, invited talk given at Queen Mary College, London, October 2010

  72. Massive (Super-)Gravities in Three Dimensions, invited talk given in Lyon (France), June 2010

  73. Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions, invited talk given at Brandeis University (Boston, USA), April 2010

  74. Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions, invited talk given at MIT (Boston, USA), April 2010

  75. Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions, talk given at the Landelijk Seminarium Theoretical High-Energy Physics, Amsterdam, March 2010

  76. New Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions, invited talk given in Bern (Switserland), September 2009

  77. Superconformal Theories in Three Dimensions, invited talk given in Bhubaneswar (India), January 2009

  78. What is Gravity?, colloquium given in Allahabad (India), January 2009

  79. Superconformal Theories in Three Dimensions, invited talk given in Allahabad (India), January 2009

  80. Supersymmetry in Three Dimensions, invited talk given in College Station (USA), October 2008

  81. Supersymmetry in Three Dimensions, invited talk given in Copenhagen (Denmark), October 2008

  82. Issues in Multiple M2-branes, informal talk given in in Barcelona (Spain), July 2008

  83. The Kac-Moody Approach to Supergravity, invited talk given in Potsdam (Germany), June 2008

  84. The Kac-Moody Approach to Supergravity, invited talk given in Utrecht, June 2008

  85. A Q–world of Branes, invited talk given in Barcelona (Spain), April 2008

  86. The Kac-Moody Approach to Supergravity, invited talk given in in Torino (Italy), April 2008

  87. The Kac-Moody Approach to Supergravity, invited talk given in Leuven (Belgium), February 2008

  88. The Kac–Moody Approach to Supergravity, invited talk given in Amsterdam, October 2007

  89. The Kac–Moody Approach to Supergravity, invited talk given in Pisa (Italy), October 2007

  90. Hidden Symmetries in Supergravity Theories, physics colloquium given in Utrecht, March 2007

  91. Hidden Symmetries in Supergravity Theories, lecture given in Groningen, March 2007

  92. Seven-branes, Instantons and Supersymmetry, invited talk given in Liverpool (United Kingdom), February 2007

  93. Seven-branes, Instantons and Supersymmetry, invited talk given in London (United Kingdom), January 2007

  94. The Challenges of String Theory, colloquium given in Oldenburg (Germany), May 2006

  95. Seven-Branes Revisited, talk given at the Feza Gürsey Institute, Istanbul (Turkey), April 2006

  96. Ten-dimensional Supergravity Revisited, talk given at the Topical Conference on Elementary Particle Physics and Cosmology, Coral Gables and Key Biscayne (USA), December 2005

  97. Ten-dimensional Supergravity Revisited, talk given at Columbia University, New York (USA), December 2005

  98. Ten-dimensional Supergravity Revisited, talk given in München (Germany), November 2005

  99. Surprises with String Theory, Mathematics Colloquium, Groningen, June 2005

  100. Branes as Geodesic Motion, talk given at Stanford (USA), April 2005

  101. Branes as Geodesic Motion, talk given at Valencia (Spain), March 2005

  102. Branes as Geodesic Motion, talk given at Madrid (Spain), March 2005

  103. Branes as Geodesic motion, talk given at the “Landelijk Seminarium”, Amsterdam, February 2005

  104. Brane Solutions of Gravity-dilaton-axion Systems, talk given at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), November, 2004

  105. String theory and Quantumgravity, van derWaals colloquium, September 2004, Eindhoven

  106. Transient Quintessence from Group Manifold Reductions or How All Roads Lead to London, talk given in London, March 2004

  107. Transient Quintessence from Group Manifold Reductions or How All Roads Lead to Paris, talk given in Paris, February 2004

  108. Transient Quintessence from Group Manifold Reductions or How All Roads Lead to Utrecht, talk given in Utrecht, December 2003

  109. Multi-scalar Accelerating Cosmologies from M-theory or How All Roads Lead to Bruxelles, talk given in Bruxelles (Belgium), Novembre 2003

  110. Domain Walls and Gauged Supergravities, talk given in London, May 2003

  111. Strings and Branes, Physics Colloquium, Groningen, May 2003

  112. Domain Walls and Gauged Supergravities, talk given in Amsterdam, April 2003

  113. String Theory and (New) Mathematics, Mathematics Colloquium, Groningen, March 2003

  114. Gauged Supergravities and Domain Walls, talk given in Uppsala, Sweden, February 2003

  115. (Non-)abelian Gauged Supergravities in Nine Dimensions, talk given in College Station, USA, October 2002.

  116. Gauged Supergravities in Nine Dimensions, talk given in Milano (Italy), March 2002

  117. Domain Walls in Nine Dimensions and their Ten-dimensional Origin, talk given in Leuven (Belgium), March 2002

  118. Domain Walls in Nine Dimensions and their Ten-dimensional Origin, talk given in London (United Kingdom), March 2002

  119. DomainWalls in Nine Dimensions and their Ten-dimensional Origin, talk given at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (United Kingdom), March 2002

  120. The Present Status of the Supermembrane, talk given in Amsterdam, October 2001

  121. Supersymmetric Non-abelian Born-Infeld Revisited, talk given in Ann Arbor (USA), June 2001

  122. Supersymmetric Non-abelian Born-Infeld Revisited, talk given in Göteborg (Sweden), June 2001

  123. The Present Status of the Supermembrane, Ehrenfest colloquium given in Leiden, May 2001

  124. Supersymmetric non-abelian Born-Infeld Revisited, talk given in London (United Kingdom), May 2001

  125. Brane plus Bulk Supersymmetry in Ten Dimensions, talk given in Trieste (Italy), March 2001

  126. The Many Faces of String Theory, talk given at the Graduate School (AIO/OIO) Theoretical High Energy Physics, January 2001

  127. Non-Abelian Born-Infeld and Kappa-Symmetry, talk given in November 2000, Neuchˆatel, Switzerland

  128. The Many Faces of String Theory, colloquium given in April 2000 in Lodz, Poland

  129. Solitons and Extended Objects, presented in October 1999 at the ICTP, Trieste, Italy

  130. On Domain Wall Dualities, presented in April 1999, London, United Kingdom

  131. Spacetime-Filling Branes and Strings with Sixteen Supercharges, presented in March 1999, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  132. Spacetime-Filling Branes and Strings with Sixteen Supercharges, presented in December 1998, NIKHEF, Amsterdam

  133. Spacetime-Filling Branes and Strings with Sixteen Supercharges, presented in November 1998, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  134. Exotic Branes, presented in May 1998, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

  135. New Results on Super-branes, I and II, presented in March 1998, Seoul, South Korea

  136. From Strings to Branes, presented in March 1998, Seoul, South Korea

  137. From Gravity to Strings and Branes, presented in March 1998, Sydney, Australia

  138. Effective Actions for Superbranes, presented in October 1997, Barcelona, Spain

  139. Snaren versus Membranen, Theoretical Lunch Seminar, June 1997, Groningen, The Netherlands

  140. Intersecting Branes, presented in May 1997, Paris, France

  141. Are Membranes Better than Strings?, presented in May 1997, Paris, France

  142. New Results on D-branes and M-branes, presented in March 1997, Stanford, USA

  143. Extended Object Solutions in String Theory, presented in November 1996, London, United Kingdom

  144. Present Status Of String Theory, presented in December 1996, Freiburg, Germany

  145. Extended Object Solutions in String Theory, presented in November 1996, London, United Kingdom

  146. New Results on Dirichlet–Branes, presented in May 1996, Trieste, Italy

  147. Recent Developments in Supermembrane Theory, presented in April 1996, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  148. Recent Developments in Supermembrane Theory, presented in April 1996, Berlin, Germany

  149. Recent Developments in Supermembrane Theory, presented in March 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  150. Recent Developments in Supermembrane Theory, presented in March 1996, Stanford, USA

  151. Duality Symmetries and the String Effective Action, A Physicist’s View of W–Algebras and Extended Objects in Particle Physics, 3 talks presented in November 1995, Rome, Italy

  152. Duality Symmetries and the String Effective Action, presented in November 1995, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  153. Duality Symmetries and the String Effective Action, presented in October 1995, London, United Kingdom

  154. A Physicist’s View of W–Algebras, presented in October 1995, Amsterdam

  155. Duality and the String Effective Action, presented in November 1994, London, United Kingdom

  156. A Review of Extended Conformal Symmetries, presented in April 1993, Zeuthen, Germany

  157. Extended Objects in Particle Physics, presented in February 1993, Groningen, The Netherlands

  158. Symmetries of Extended Objects, presented in November 1992, University of Berkeley, USA

  159. A Review of Extended Conformal Symmetries, presented in November 1992, SLAC, Stanford University, USA

  160. Mathematische Eigenschappen van Snaar Theorie, popular talk presented in September 1992, Groningen, The Netherlands

  161. W–Symmetries, presented in August 1992, Copenhagen, Denmark

  162. W–Symmetries: an Overview, presented in May 1992, Utrecht

  163. W–Supergravity, presented in April 1992, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  164. A review of Extended Conformal Symmetries, presented in February 1992, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  165. A review of Extended Conformal Symmetries, presented in February 1992, Bonn, Germany

  166. W–Symmetries, presented in October 1991, Trieste, Italy

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