Past seminars
2026
Sara Rufrano Aliberti: Asymptotic Safety in Generalized Proca Theories
Benjamin Knorr: Asymptotically (un)safe scattering amplitudes from scratch: a deep dive into the IR jungle
Emiliano Glaviano: Gravitationally Induced UV Completion of an O(N) Scalar Theory
Alicia Castro: Towards a quantitative characterization of gravitational universality classes for order-4 random tensor models
Ivano Basile: Asymptotic safety, quantum gravity, and the swampland: a conceptual assessment
Haridev S R: RG studies of scalar-field models of long-range interactions
Sarben Sarkar: The axion coupling could accelerate the Universe through PT-symmetric phases
Gabriel Assant: Towards theory constraints on ultralight dark matter from quantum gravity
Francesco Del Porro: Charting GLOBs in Asymptotically Safe Gravity
Jesse van der Duin and Renate Loll: Effective topology of quantum spacetime
Varun Kher: Matter Spectral Functions from Quantum Gravity
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2025
Axel Maas: Looking for geons
Jose Padua-Arguelles: Non-Perturbative S-matrix Renormalization
Jonas Wessely: Self-consistent graviton spectral function in Lorentzian quantum gravity
Zois Gyftopoulos: Quark and lepton mixing in the Asymptotic Safe Standard Model
Manuel Reichert: Yukawa interactions in Quantum Gravity
Francesco Ferrarin: Impact of quantum gravity on the UV sensitivity of extremal black holes
Johanna Borissova: Applications and prospects of Lorentzian path integrals in quantum gravity
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2024
Yannick Kluth: Fixed Points of Quantum Gravity from Dimensional Regularisation
Jan Ambjorn: Relating CDT and FRG
Benjamin Knorr: Unearthing the intersections: positivity bounds, weak gravity conjecture, and asymptotic safety landscapes from photon-graviton flows
Thomas Thiemann and Renata Ferrero: Asymptotically safe – canonical quantum gravity junction
Frank Saueressig: Almost-Gaussian Scaling in Asymptotic Safety – Yes? – No? - Maybe?
Anna Tokareva: Background-induced complex mass states of graviton: quantization and tensor power spectrum
Jian Wang: Global Flows of Foliated Gravity-Matter Systems
Diego Buccio: Physical running of couplings in quadratic gravity
Christof Wetterich: Field transformations in functional flow equations
Agustín Silva: On harvesting physical predictions from asymptotically safe quantum field theories
Yannick Kluth: Robustness of the derivative expansion in Asymptotic Safety
Marta Picciau: Quantum field theories of relativistic Luttinger fermions
Benjamin Knorr: Momentum-dependent field redefinitions in Asymptotic Safety
Tim Morris: Ultraviolet finite resummation of perturbative quantum gravity
Bilal Hawashin: The Nordic-walking mechanism and its explanation of deconfined pseudocriticality from Wess-Zumino-Witten theory
Johanna Borissova: Suppression of spacetime singularities in quantum gravity
Shouryya Ray: Light fermions in colour: why the quark mass is not the Planck mass
Edoardo D’Angelo: Asymptotic Safety in Lorentzian quantum gravity
Abhishek Chikkaballi: Naturally small neutrino mass with asymptotic safety and gravitational-wave signatures
Gustavo de Brito: Towards an interplay between causal sets and asymptotically safe quantum gravity
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2023
Antonio Panassiti: Dust collapse in Asymptotic Safety: a path to regular black holes
Maria Conti: The conformal sector of Quantum Einstein Gravity beyond the local potential approximation
Jan Tränkle: Effective action and black hole solutions in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Jian Wang: Foliated asymptotically safe gravity in the fluctuation approach
Arthur Ferreira Vieira: The fate of chiral symmetry in Riemann-Cartan geometry
Andrzej Goerlich: Scalar fields in lattice quantum gravity
Robert Shrock: Higher-Loop Studies of Beta Function Zeros in Infrared-Free Field Theories
Yannick Kluth: Spectral Functions of Gauge Theories with Banks-Zaks Fixed Point
Diego Buccio: Amplitudes and Renormalization Group Techniques: A Case Study
Rafael-Robson-Lino-dos-Santos: From quantum gravity to gravitational waves through cosmic strings
Shouryya Ray: Suppression of proton decay in quantum gravity
Chiang-Mei Chen: Phase Structure of Quantum Improved Black Holes in Asymptotically Safe Gravity
Fabian Wagner: Shift-symmetric Horndeski gravity in the asymptotic-safety paradigm
Renata Ferrero: Geometrization of Renormalization Group Histories: a novel (A)dS/CFT emerging from Asymptotic Safety
Marc Schiffer: On the weak-gravity bound for a shift-symmetric scalar field
Johanna Borissova: Towards quantum black-hole dynamics inspired by asymptotic safety
Rafael Robson Lino dos Santos : Are there ALPs in the asymptotically safe landscape?
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2022
Cristóbal Laporte: Evidence for a novel shift-symmetric universality class from the functional renormalization group
Álvaro Pastor Gutiérrez: The Asymptotically Safe Standard Model: From quantum gravity to dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
Alessia Platania: Causality, unitarity and stability in quantum gravity: a non-perturbative perspective
Enrico Sessolo: Naturally small Yukawa couplings from trans-Planckian asymptotic safety
Yannick Kluth: Functional Renormalisation for f(Rμνρσ) Quantum Gravity
Álvaro Pastor Gutiérrez: UV completion of extradimensional Yang-Mills theory for Gauge-Higgs unification
Mathijs Fraaije: On the reconstruction problem in Quantum Gravity
Benjamin Knorr: Safe essential scalar-tensor theories
Ivano Basile: Asymptotic safety and the swampland
Maximilian Becker: Background Independent Field Quantization with Sequences of Gravity-Coupled Approximants
Edoardo D’Angelo: Wetterich equation on lorentzian manifolds
Gustavo de Brito: Nonvanishing gravitational contribution to matter beta functions for vanishing dimensionful regulators
Christof Wetterich: The quantum gravity connection between inflation and quintessence
Rudrajit Banerjee: The spatial Functional Renormalization Group and Hadamard states on cosmological spacetimes
Chris Ripken: De Sitter scattering amplitudes in the Born approximation
Renata Ferrero: Relational Observables in Asymptotically Safe Gravity
Dalius Stulga: Provable properties of asymptotic safety in the f(R) approximation
Tom Steudtner: Explaining B-Anomalies with safe Z’ extensions
Jian Wang : Scalar-tensor theories within asymptotic safety
Saswato Sen: Asymptotic safety and freedom in higher derivative gravity
Manuel Reichert: Lorentzian quantum gravity and the graviton spectral function
Focus Seminar: The graviton propagator in Asymptotic Safety (Benjamin Knorr, Alessia Platania, and Manuel Reichert)
Kamila Kowalska: Implications for g-2 and dark matter from asymptotic safety
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2021
Rafael Robson Lino dos Santos: The weak-gravity bound and the need for spin in asymptotically safe matter-gravity models
Kevin Falls: Essential Quantum Einstein Gravity
Alessio Baldazzi: Essential renormalization group
Focus Seminar: Black Holes in Asymptotic Safety (Frank Saueressig & Aaron Held)
Shouryya Ray: Towards a Higgs Mass Determination in Asymptotically Safe Gravity with a Dark Portal
Lisa Glaser: Ising Spins and Causal Sets
Benjamin Knorr: The derivative expansion in asymptotically safe quantum gravity: general setup and quartic order
Tobias Denz: Reconstructing the graviton
Ivano Basile: String Tension between de Sitter vacua and Curvature Corrections
Alex Mitchell-Lister: A continuum limit of quantum gravity at second order in perturbation theory
Adrien Florio: Searching for continuous phase transitions in 5D SU(2) lattice gauge theory
Abdol Sabor Salek: A curvature bound from gravitational catalysis in thermal backgrounds
Judah Unmuth-Yockey: Newtonian binding from lattice quantum
Raúl Carballo Rubio: Mass inflation and the semiclassical limit of quantum black holes
Seth Kurankyi Asante: Effective spin foam models for four dimensional quantum gravity
Passant Ali: Constraints on discrete global symmetries in quantum gravity
Renata Ferrero: Dynamical diffeomorphisms
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2020
Yannick Kluth: Fixed Points of Quantum Gravity and the Dimensionality of the UV Critical Surface
Alessia Platania: Non-perturbative unitarity and fictitious ghosts in quantum gravity
Enrico Sessolo: Flavor anomalies from asymptotically safe gravity
Jesse Daas: Asymptotically Safe Gravity with Fermions
Jobst Ziebell: Asymptotically Safe QED
Martin Pauly: Safety in Darkness: Towards asymptotically safe dark matter models
Jan Kwapisz: Asymptotic safety and quantum gravity amplitudes
Leslaw Rachwal: Effective action from FRG
Kevin Falls: Background independent exact renormalisation
Maximiliano Binder: Functional Renormalization Group Flow of Massive Gravity
Frank Saueressig: Spectroscopy of the Reuter fixed point from the composite operator formalism
Alicia Castro: FRG Approach to the Continuum Limit of Matrix Models of Quantum Gravity with Preferred Foliation
Yu Hamada: Scalegenesis and fermionic dark matters in the flatland scenario
Bertrand Delamotte: Convergence of the derivative expansion and results at order ∂6
Tom Steudtner: Exact asymptotic safety: new solutions and large-N equivalences
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2019
Manuel Reichert: Dark Matter meets Quantum Gravity
Gustavo Pazzini de Brito: A link that matters: Towards phenomenological constraints on quantum gravity models
Axel Maas: The Fröhlich-Morcchio-Strocchi Mechanism and Quantum Gravity
Peter Millington: Exact flow equations from the regulator-sourced 2PI effective action
Frank Saueressig: Form Factors in Asymptotic Safety
Marc Schiffer: d=4 as the critical dimensionality of asymptotically safe interactions
Alessia Platania: Dynamical renormalization of black-hole spacetimes
Masatoshi Yamada: Higgs scalar potential in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Tim Morris: Trace anomaly and infrared cutoffs
Maximilian Becker: Geometric Operators in Asymptotic Safety
Benjamin Knorr: RG flow with a covariant foliation
Jan Kwapsiz: Asymptotic safety and Conformal Standard Model
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2018
Senarath de Alwis: Exact RG equations, Quantum Gravity and Ghosts
Dine Ousmane Samary: Progress in the solving nonperturbative renormalization group for tensorial group field theory
Johannes Lumma: Towards background independent quantum gravity with tensor models
Marc Schiffer: How perturbative is quantum gravity?
Giulia Gubitosi and Chris Ripken: Consistent early and late time cosmology from the RG flow of gravity
Carlos M. Nieto: In search of a UV completion of the Standard Model
Gustavo Pazzini de Brito: Asymptotic safety and field parametrization dependence in the f(R) truncation
Gabriele Gionti: Hamiltonian Analysis of Asymptotically Safe Gravity
Manuel Reichert: Effective universality in quantum gravity
Benjamin Knorr: Towards reconstructing the quantum effective action of gravity
Vedran Skrinjar: Safe and free instantons
Riccardo Martini: A curvature bound from gravitational catalysis
Johannes Lumma: Quantum gravity fluctuations flatten the Planck-scale Higgs-potential
Frank Saueressig: Asymptotically safe f(R)-gravity coupled to matter
Rodrigo León Ardón: The path integral of unimodular gravity
Fleur Versteegen: Upper bound on the abelian gauge coupling from asymptotic safety
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2017
Manuel Reichert: One force to rule them all: Asymptotic safety of gravity with matter
Vedran Skrinjar: Induced scalar interactions in quantum gravity
Chris Ripken: Catching ghosts - on avoiding Ostrogradski instabilities within asymptotic safety
Stefan Lippoldt: Correlation functions on a curved background
Aaron Held: Compatibility of quantum gravity and a UV-complete Standard Model
Tobias Denz: Towards apparent convergence in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Kevin Falls: Physical renormalization schemes and asymptotic safety in quantum gravity
Nicolai Christiansen: The Interplay of Quantum Gravity and Gauge Theories
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2016
Tim Morris: Large curvature in single-metric approximations (a conundrum and its solution)
Alessia Platania: Quantum gravity on foliated spacetime: asymptotically safe and sound
Aaron Held: Quantum-gravity effects on a Higgs-Yukawa model
Zoe Slade: Background Independence in a Background Dependent Renormalization Group
Benjamin Knorr: On the two-loop counterterm in Quantum Gravity
Anthony Preston: Manifestly diffeomorphism invariant classical Exact Renormalization Group
Masatoshi Yamada: Non-minimal coupling and scalar massin Higgs-Yukawa model with asymptotic safe gravity
Manuel Reichert: Asymptotic safety of gravity-matter systems
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2015
David Mesterhazy: A renormalization group approach to multi-field models
Manuel Reichert: Local Quantum Gravity
Zoe Slade: Solutions to the reconstruction problem in asymptotic safety
Stefan Lippoldt: Generalized Parametrization Dependence in Quantum Gravity
Alessia Platania: Asymptotically Safe inflation from quadratic gravity
Andreas Nink: Connections and geodesics in the space of metrics
Maximilian Demmel: A proper fixed functional for four-dimensional Quantum Einstein Gravity
Carlo Pagani: Quantum gravity with torsion and non-metricity
Benjamin Knorr: Global solutions of functional fixed point equation via pseudo-spectral methods
Gian Paolo Vacca: Asymptotic safety and scalar-tensor theories
Sandor Nagy: Asymptotic safety in the Sine-Gordon model
Stefan Lippoldt: Global surpluses of spin-base invariant Fermions
Natalia Alkofer: Spectral dimension from the spectral action
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2014
Daniel Becker: Towards a C-function in quantum gravity
Ippocratis Saltas: Discussing the UV structure of quantum unimodular gravity
Christoph Rahmede: Further evidence for asymptotic safety of quantum gravity
Kevin Falls: Asymptotic Safety and the cosmological constant
Daniel Becker: Asymptotic Safety & Background Independence
Ippocratis Saltas: Asymptotically safe Starobinsky inflation
Maximilian Demmel: RG flows of Quantum Einstein Gravity on maximally symmetric spaces
Benjamin Knorr: Global flows in quantum gravity
Bianca Dittrich: Coarse graining and renormalization: the bottom up approach
Jürgen Dietz: The local potential approximation in the background field formalism
Filippo Guarnieri: One-loop renormalization in a toy model of Horava-Lifshitz gravity
Filippo Guarnieri: Brans-Dicke theory in the local potential approximation
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2013
Pietro Doná: Matter matters in asymptotically safe gravity
Tim Koslowski: Asymptotically safe matrix models
Stefan Lippoldt: Fermions in gravity with local spin-base invariance
Adriano Contillo: Renormalization group flow of Horava-Lifshitz gravity at low energies
Omar Zanusso: Perturbation theory and the functional renormalization group
John Donoghue: The effective field theory of general relativity and running couplings
Michael Scherer: An asymptotic safety scenario for gauged chiral Higgs-Yukawa models
Benjamin Koch: Structural aspects of asymptotically safe black holes
Taotao Qiu: Higgs as curvaton in asymptotic safe gravity
Tobias Henz: Dilaton quantum gravity
Gianluca Calcagni: Probing the quantum nature of spacetime by diffusion
Alfio Bonanno: Modulated ground state of gravity theories with stabilized conformal factor
Konstantinos Nikolakopulos: A bootstrap towards asymptotic safety
Kevin Falls: A coarse-grained model of black hole thermodynamics
Jürgen Dietz: Asymptotic safety in the f(R) approximation
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2012
Giulio d’Odorico: The renormalization group and Weyl invariance
Nicolai Christiansen: Fixed points and infrared completion of quantum gravity
Andreas Nink: On the physical mechanism underlying asymptotic safety
Pietro Doná: Functional renormalization with fermions and tetrads
Alejandro Satz: Limit cycles and quantum gravity
Daniel Becker: Running boundary actions, Asymptotic Safety, and black hole thermodynamics
Dario Benedetti: The Local potential approximation in quantum gravity
Jan Pawlowski: The phase diagram of quantum gravity from diffeomorphism-invariant RG-flows
Ippocratis Saltas: f(R) gravity from the renormalisation group
Alfio Bonanno: An effective action for asymptotically safe gravity
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2011
Frank Saueressig: Fractal space-times under the microscope: a Renormalization Group view on Monte Carlo data
Adriano Contillo: Renormalisation group improvement of early times cosmology
Astrid Eichhorn: Light fermions in quantum gravity
Alberto Tonero: First steps toward an asymptotically safe model of electroweak interactions
Ulrich Harst: QEG Corrections in Yang-Mills-Theories and QED
Stefan Rechenberger: Causal RG equation for Quantum Einstein Gravity
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