STRINGS 2025
Invited speakers

Invited speakers
Reviewers
Anshuman Maharana
John McGreevy
Edward Witten
Sasha Zhiboedov
Panelists
Maissam Barkeshli
Paolo Creminelli
Christopher J. Fewster
Ed Copeland
Francesco Riva
Hong Liu
Irene Valenzuela
Meng Cheng
Naomi Gendler
Nima Lashkari
Xie Chen
Yu-tin Huang
Closing Panelists
Jan de Boer
Thomas Faulkner
Daniel Harlow
Thomas Hartman
Yang-Hui He
Ken Intriligator
Renata Kallosh
Igor Klebanov
Zohar Komargodski
Juan Maldacena
Shiraz Minwalla
Rob Myers
Niels Obers
Shlomo Razamat
Cumrun Vafa
Anastasia Volovich
Plenary Speakers
Lara Anderson
Dionysios Anninos
Alejandra Castro
Yiming Chen
Clay Cordova
Lorenzo Di Pietro
G. Bruno De Luca
Thomas Grimm
Daniel Grumiller
Jim Halverson
Song He
Janet Hung
Luca Iliesiu
Vishnu Jejjala
Kristan Jensen
Hee-Cheol Kim
Heeyeon Kim
Shota Komatsu
Javier Magan
Yu Nakayama
Natalie Paquette
Julio Parra-Martinez
Geoff Penington
Eric Perlmutter
Eli Pomoni
Ashoke Sen
Shu-Heng Shao
Ronak Soni
Lenny Susskind
Gonzalo Torroba
Sandip Trivedi
Herman Verlinde
Pedro Vieira

Strings 2025 is proudly supported by The
Scholarships Office (SCO). The SCO,
established in 1999, provides opportunities
for academically distinguished Emirati
students to obtain both undergraduate and
postgraduate degrees at prestigious universities,
thus ensuring the growth and development of
qualified Emiratis, considered the mainstay
upon which the country’s present and future
depends.
Invited speakers
Reviewers
Anshuman Maharana
John McGreevy
Edward Witten
Sasha Zhiboedov
Panelists
Maissam Barkeshli
Paolo Creminelli
Christopher J. Fewster
Ed Copeland
Francesco Riva
Hong Liu
Irene Valenzuela
Meng Cheng
Naomi Gendler
Nima Lashkari
Xie Chen
Yu-tin Huang
Closing Panelists
Jan de Boer
Thomas Faulkner
Daniel Harlow
Thomas Hartman
Yang-Hui He
Ken Intriligator
Renata Kallosh
Igor Klebanov
Zohar Komargodski
Juan Maldacena
Shiraz Minwalla
Rob Myers
Niels Obers
Shlomo Razamat
Cumrun Vafa
Anastasia Volovich
Plenary Speakers
Lara Anderson
Dionysios Anninos
Alejandra Castro
Yiming Chen
Clay Cordova
Lorenzo Di Pietro
G. Bruno De Luca
Thomas Grimm
Daniel Grumiller
Jim Halverson
Song He
Janet Hung
Luca Iliesiu
Vishnu Jejjala
Kristan Jensen
Hee-Cheol Kim
Heeyeon Kim
Shota Komatsu
Javier Magan
Yu Nakayama
Natalie Paquette
Julio Parra-Martinez
Geoff Penington
Eric Perlmutter
Eli Pomoni
Ashoke Sen
Shu-Heng Shao
Ronak Soni
Lenny Susskind
Gonzalo Torroba
Sandip Trivedi
Herman Verlinde
Pedro Vieira

Strings 2025 is proudly supported by The
Scholarships Office (SCO). The SCO,
established in 1999, provides opportunities
for academically distinguished Emirati
students to obtain both undergraduate and
postgraduate degrees at prestigious universities,
thus ensuring the growth and development of
qualified Emiratis, considered the mainstay
upon which the country’s present and future
depends.