Registrations are now open for the XXII Avogadro Meeting on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories.

Born in 2005 as an occasion for young theoretical physicists to share their ideas and results in an informal atmosphere, the Avogadro Meeting has become an international reference point for the theoretical physics community working on gauge, supergravity and string theories, especially early-career researchers. In recent years, it has taken on a more transversal character, including also topics such as scattering amplitudes and machine learning.

It takes place every year in December for three days, with a series of lectures on current topics, a poster session and a gong-show. In order to stress the pedagogical aim of the meeting, preference is given to extended blackboard presentations on general themes rather than to conventional seminars on specific works, possibly organised and illustrated by more than one speaker and followed by a long discussion session.

The Avogadro Meeting is named after the University of Piemonte Orientale that hosted its first three editions. It is now recognized as an important opportunity for exchange for both the international and Italian theoretical physics communities.

This year’s edition will take place in Genoa, from Wednesday 16/12/2026 to Friday 18/12/2026, with a social dinner planned for Friday evening. The registration deadline is fixed for 15/11/2026.

Topics and speakers of the Avogadro Meeting 2026:

-Cobordism and its applications to physics and quantum gravity
Roberta Angius (U. Hamburg), Salvatore Raucci (Madrid IFT)

-Matrix Models and Gauge/String Duality
Jackson Fliss (ULB), Edward Mazenc (ETH)

-New perspectives on anomalies in QFT
Andrea Antinucci (Oxford U.), Lea Bottini (IHES)

-QFT in AdS
Fabiana De Cesare (U. Turin), Manuel Loparco (U. Turin)

-String Amplitudes
Maurizio Firrotta (Fudan U.), Maria Nocchi (Stony Brook U.)

Here you can find more information on the Avogadro Meeting and on its previous editions.