The international seminar on asymptotic safety was founded in spring 2011, with the intention of bringing the asymptotic-safety community together, and providing a platform for talks on asymptotic safety in and beyond quantum gravity, as well as related topics in quantum gravity and quantum field theory.

Upcoming seminars

Benjamin Knorr: Unearthing the intersections: positivity bounds, weak gravity conjecture, and asymptotic safety landscapes from photon-graviton flows


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We compute the asymptotic safety landscape stemming from ultraviolet-complete photon-graviton flows in a field theoretic setup, and we confront it with the weak gravity conjecture and, for the first time, with positivity bounds. At fourth order in derivatives, we find two gravitational fixed points providing viable ...

Jan Ambjorn: Relating CDT and FRG


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CDT is a lattice theory of quantum gravity. It is shown how to identify the IR and the UV limit of this lattice theory with similar FRG limits.

Yannick Kluth: Fixed Points of Quantum Gravity from Dimensional Regularisation


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We investigate β-functions of quantum gravity using dimensional regularisation. In contrast to minimal subtraction, a non-minimal renormalisation scheme is employed which is sensitive to power-law divergences from mass terms or dimensionful couplings. By construction, this setup respects global and gauge symmetries,...

The organizers

If you are interested in attending the seminars and joining the community, please contact Aaron Held or Marc Schiffer to join the corresponding mailing list.

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Astrid Eichhorn

Astrid is Professor in Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University. She works on quantum gravity and its phenomenology in particle physics, black holes and cosmology.

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Aaron Held

Aaron works on phenomenological constraints in quantum and classical effective field theories of gravity. Currently, DAAD Prime Fellow at Jena University and The Princeton Gravity Initiative.

Marc Schiffer

Marc works on asymptotically safe gravity-matter systems using functional and lattice methods. Currently, Postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University.