PRIN 2022 Meeting "Carving out the landscape of QFT"

21 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 23 Sept 2026, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Scuola Normale Superiore

Alessandro Vichi (Universià di Pisa), Enrico Trincherini, Leonardo Juliano (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa will host a small, interactive meeting devoted to positivity bounds, causality constraints, and their implications for gravitational theories. Rather than a dense program of talks, the format is designed to leave ample time for questions, informal exchange, and collaboration, bringing together a limited number of participants around these closely related topics. The preliminary list of speakers includes: 

Brando Bellazzini 
Giacomo Brunello
Paolo Creminelli
Johan Henriksson
Scott Melville 
Alex Pomarol
Francesco Riva
Borna Salehian
Long-Qi Shao
Anna Tokareva

Monday 21 September

09:00 Registration

1 Detector amplitudes: how positivity meets the real world

Speaker: Prof. Brando Bellazzini (IPhT, Saclay)

10:30 Coffee break

2 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Anna Tokareva (HIAS, UCAS, Hangzhou)

12:15 Lunch break

3 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Francesco Riva (Geneva U.)

15:15 Coffee break

4 TBA

Speaker: Dr Giacomo Brunello (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Tuesday 22 September

5 Multipositivity Constrains the Chiral Lagrangian

Speaker: Prof. Alex Pomarol (Barcelona, IFAE)

10:30 Coffee break

6 In pursuit of positivity: tidal response, and etc

Speaker: Dr Borna Salehian (Zurich, ETH)

12:15 Lunch break

7 Positivity bounds for de Sitter EFTs

Speaker: Prof. Scott Melville (Queen Mary, U. of London)

15:15 Coffee break

8 Analytic Boundaries of Infinite-Spin-Tower Amplitudes from Hidden Zero

Speaker: Dr Long-Qi Shao (U. Pisa (main))

Wednesday 23 September

9 Bootstrapping rho meson scattering at large N

Speaker: Dr Johan Henriksson (CERN)

10:30 Coffee break

10 Microcausality bounds on Goldstone dispersion relations

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Creminelli (ICTP, Trieste)

12:15 Lunch break