Istanbul Stringy Meeting 2026

A meeting across string theory, quantum gravity and integrability, bringing together young researchers and the mathematical physics community.

DATES & VENUE

5–9 January 2026
Department of Physics
Boğaziçi University · Istanbul, Türkiye

Participants at Istanbul Stringy Meeting 2026 — Istanbul Stringy Meeting 2026 · Group photograph.

ABOUT THE MEETING

Ideas, discussion and collaboration

The Istanbul Stringy Meeting took place on 5–9 January 2026 at the Department of Physics, Boğaziçi University. The meeting brought together young researchers in theoretical and mathematical physics.

Topics

Physical Mathematics
Supersymmetric gauge theories
Non-perturbative quantum field theories
AdS/CFT correspondence

MEETING MOMENTS · JANUARY 2026

At the board and between talks

Participants discussing calculations at a blackboard during Istanbul Stringy Meeting 2026 — Blackboard discussion · ISM 2026.

Participants on campus during Istanbul Stringy Meeting 2026 — Participants on campus · ISM 2026.

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Invited speakers

Cihan Pazarbaşı (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Ikram Kouachi (Bilgi University, Türkiye)
Andrea de Marco (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Hengyuan Guo (INFN/University of Pisa, Italy, and Sun Yat-Sun University, China)
Andrew Kuzovchikov (Higher School of Economics and of Moscow State University, Russia)
Hui Liu (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia)
Ali Pazarcı (Bologna University, Italy)
Alessandro Borys (University of Catania, Italy)
Uveys Turhan (Boğaziçi University, Türkiye)
Reyhan Yumuşak (Boğaziçi University, Türkiye)

Advisory committee

Sergei Alexandrov (University of Montpellier, France)
Dmitri Bykov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)
Ilmar Gahramanov (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Edvard Musaev (MIPT, Russia)
Mithat Ünsal (North Carolina State University, US)
Masahito Yamazaki (Kavli IPMU University of Tokyo, Japan)

Organizing committee

M. Batu Bayındırlı (University of Minnesota, US)
Ege Coban (DESY, Hamburg)
Tolga Domurcukgül (North Carolina State University, US)
Mustafa Mullahasanoglu (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Paolo Rossi (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Ali Mert Yetkin (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Andrea de Marco (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Scientific programme

Open a day to view its schedule.

6 January Tuesday

11.00-12.00		Opening Talk
12.00-14.00		Lunch Break
14.00-14.40	Spin Chains and One-Dimensional Sigma Models	Andrew Kuzovchikov
14.40-15.20		Coffee Break
15.20-16.00	Integrable Scattering Theories with $𝒰_{q} (𝔰 𝔲 (2))$ Symmetry in 1+1 Dimensions	Ali Pazarcı

7 January Wednesday

11.00-11.40	Resurgence and duality	Cihan Pazarbaşı
11.40-14.00		Lunch Break
14.00-14.40	Superconformal Index for D(2,1,α) Symmetry	Andrea de Marco
14.40-15.20		Coffee Break
15.10-15.35	Modular Double on Lens Spaces	Reyhan Yumuşak
15.35-16.00	Knot Invariants and Bailey Pairs	Uveys Turhan

8 January Thursday

11.00-11.40	Soliton Quantization: A Finite Tension for Domain Wall	Hengyuan Guo
11.40-14.00		Lunch Break
14.00-15.20	POSTER Session
15.20-16.00	Branes, Bubbles and Dark Energy	Alessandro Borys

9 January Friday

11.00-11.40	An Extended Soliton’s Zero Modes	Hui Liu
11.40-12.20
12.20-13.00	Darboux: Solvable Dirac Operators in Curved Geometry	Ikram Kouachi
13.00		Lunch

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