Invited Talks

• Geometry and Phenomenology of String Compactifications, Initiative for the theoretical Sciences, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Dec 13, 2024, The String Genome Project.
• Accelerated Expansion, dS and Strings: from the Swampland to the Landscape, Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT), Madrid, Spain, September 18-20, 2024, To roll or not to roll?
• Pitt-PACC Workshop on Non-Standard Cosmological Epochs and Expansion Histories, September 5-7, 2024, Connections to Fundamental Theory.
• Thematic Program on “The Landscape vs. the Swampland”, Erwin Schrodinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, July 10, 2024, Cosmology in the Landscape vs. the Swampland.
• 23rd International String Phenomenology Conference, University of Padova and INFN, June 24-28, 2024, Euclidean Wormholes and String Phenomenology.
• Delta ITP Theoretical Cosmology Meeting, University of Amsterdam, May 31, 2024, Learning from Topology: Cosmological Parameter Inference from the Large Scale Structure.
• “Geometry, Strings and the Swampland Program”, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, March 18 – 22, 2024, Euclidean Wormholes and the Swampland.
• Statistical Analysis of Random Fields in Cosmology, KEK, Japan, March 4-6, 2024, Learning from Topology: Cosmological Parameter Inference from the Large-scale Structure.
• Multifield Cosmology: Inflation, Dark Energy and More, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, February 5-9, 2024, Analytic Bounds on Asymptotic Cosmologies.
• KITP Program “What is String Theory? Weaving Perspectives Together”, Santa Barbara,  January 26, 2024, Discussion: Euclidean Wormholes in String Theory.
• String Data 2023, Caltech, December 13-16, 2023, Learning from Topology: from String Theory to Cosmology and Back.
• Deconstructing the String Landscape (a.k.a. Landscapia), IPhT, CEA, Saclay, France, November 29-December 1, 2023, Discussion on de Sitter vacua and Beyond.
• String-Cosmo Day, Astroparticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory in Paris, November 28, 2023, Late-time attractors and Cosmic Acceleration.
• International Conference on Machine Learning Physics, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, November 16-18, 2023, Learning from Topology: Cosmological Parameter Inference from the Large-scale Structure.
• IAIFI Summer Workshop, Northeastern University, Boston, August 14-18, 2023, Learning from Topology: Cosmological Parameter Inference from the Large-scale Structure.
• Plenary Lecture (1 hour), Inaugural International Congress of Basic Science, Beijing, July 16-28, 2023, Late-time attractors and Cosmic Acceleration in String Theory.
• 22nd International String Phenomenology Conference, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea, July 3-7, 2023, Late-time attractors and Cosmic Acceleration.
• CERN-Korea Workshop: Recent Trends in and out of the Swampland, June 26-July 1, 2023, Discussion on the Swampland Program.
• UNIST Workshop on Geometry, String Theory and Machine Learning 2023, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, June 29-July 1, 2023, The Topology of Data: from String Theory to Cosmology to Phases of Matter.
• “New Pathways in Exploration of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity beyond Supersymmetry III”, ICTP, Trieste, June 12-16, 2023, Late-time attractors and Cosmic Acceleration.
• Banff International Research Station workshop “Quantum Information Theory in Quantum Field Theory and Cosmology”, Banff, Canada, June 4-9, 2023, Euclidean Wormholes and String Theory.
• BEL Lectures “Quantum Gravity and the Swampland” (4 lectures), BEL Center (KU Leuven, UC Louvain, VUB, ULB), Belgium, May 19-24, 2023.
• Kobe Workshop on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Kobe University, Japan, March 18-21, 2023, Accelerating Universe at the End of Time.
• String Data 2022, University of Cambridge, UK, December 7-10, 2022, The String Genome Project.
• Back to the Swamp Workshop, IFT-Madrid, September 26-28, 2022, Discussion and Review on “Cosmo and Swamp”.
• Hammers & Nails 2022 — Machine Learning Meets Astro & Particle Physics, August 3-11, 2022, ML in Theoretical Physics (slides).
• 21st International String Phenomenology Conference, Liverpool, UK, July 4-8, 2022, Opening talk: Amplitudes meet the Swampland (slides, video).
• Bethe Forum “Machine Learning: Where to apply in Theoretical Physics”, Bonn Center for Theoretical Physics, June 27-July 1, 2022, The String Genome Project.
• Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics Scientific Program “A Deep learning Era of Particle Theory”, Mainz, June 16, 2022, The String Genome Project.
• Simons Symposium on “Amplitudes Meet Cosmology”, Scotland, May 15-21, 2022, Amplitudes meet the Swampland.
• Possible and Impossible in Effective Field Theory: From the S-Matrix to the Swampland, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, May 2-4, 2022, From Rotation to Charge and Back Again.
• String Data 2021, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town, South Africa, December 13-17, 2021 [online], The String Genome Project.
• Applications of Quantum Information in QFT and Cosmology, University of Lethbridge, Canada, November 22-24, 2021 [online], Quantum Information in de Sitter Space.
• “Geometry, Strings and the Swampland”, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, November 8 – 12, 2021, Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Weak Gravity Conjecture (slides).
• SUSY 2021, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, August 23-27, 2021 [online], Quantum Gravity and the Swampland.
• String Phenomenology 2021, Boston, July 12-16, 2021 [online], Microscopic Description of Brane Gauginos (slides, video).
• ILJU Symposium of Mathematics, POSTECH MINDS Workshop, Topological Data Analysis and Machine Learning, South Korea, July 6-9, 2021 [online], The Topology of Data: from String Theory to Cosmology to Phases of Matter.
• Strings 2021, Sao Paulo, June 21 – July 2, 2021 [on-line], Discussion on String Universality, Particle Physics and Cosmology (slides, video).
• International Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC) Conference, Oklahoma, May 17-21, 2021 [online], Quantum Information in de Sitter Space (slides, video).
• Online Workshop on Black Holes, Swampland, and Quantum Gravity, Kobe and Osaka, May 13-14, 2021 [online], Quantum Gravity and the Swampland (slides).
• “Zooming in on the Swampland” Workshop, Harvard University, March 8-10, 2021 [online], Quantum Information Bounds on de Sitter Space (video).
• Cosmology 2021: The Rise of Field Theory, Cambridge University, January 4-7, 2021 [online], Discussion on UV Completions of Cosmology (video).
• KEK Theory 2020 Workshop, Tsukuba, December 15-18, 2020 [online].
• String Data 2020, CERN, December 14-16, 2020 [online], The Topology of Data: from String Theory to Cosmology to Phases of Matter (slides, video).
• Asian Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics Workshop on “String Theory, Gravity and Cosmology”, South Korea, November 18-20, 2020 [online], Quantum Gravity and the Swampland.
• 2nd Joint Meeting of PRIN 2017: “Supersymmetry Breaking with Fields, Strings, and Branes”, University of Padua, March 20, 2020, Quantum Gravity and the Swampland [rescheduled as online talk in June].
• Bootstrapping String Theory Conference, Caltech, May 18-22, 2020 [online], Discussion on Swampland and the Bootstrap.
• KITP Program “The String Swampland and Quantum Gravity Constraints on Effective Theories”, Santa Barbara, February 19, 2020, Discussion on Swampland Conjectures and their Relationships (video).
• KITP Program “From Inflation to the Hot Big Bang”, Santa Barbara, February 11, 2020, Inflation and Quantum Gravity (video).
• KITP Conference “Inflationary Reheating Meets Particle Physics Frontier”, Santa Barbara, February 3-6, 2020, Chaos and Complementarity in Cosmological Spacetimes (video).
• Simons Center Workshop on “Strings, Geometry, and Data Science”, Stony Brook, January 6-8, 2020, Applying Data Science to Cosmology and String Theory (video).
• National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS) Annual Theory meeting 2019, Taiwan, December 12-14, 2019.
• Workshop on de Sitter Constructions in String Theory, IPhT, CEA/Saclay, France, December 9-11, 2019.
• Deep Learning & Physics 2019, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, October 31-November 2, 2019, Decoding the Shape of the String Landscape with Data Science.
• East Asia Joint Workshop on Fields and Strings 2019, NCTS, Taiwan, October 28-November 1, 2019, Quantum Gravity and the Swampland (video).
• DESY Theory Workshop 2019 “Quantum Field Theory meets Gravity”, Hamburg, September 24-27, 2019, Quantum Gravity and the Swampland (video).
• Simons Summer Workshop on Cosmology and String Theory, Stony Brook, July 15-August 9, 2019, Inflation in String Theory: A Review (video).
• 2019 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, Northeastern University, Boston, July 29-August 2, 2019, String Theory (slides).
• Amsterdam Summer String Theory Workshop on Cosmology and String Theory, University of Amsterdam, July 15-26, 2019, Weak Gravity Conjecture and Black Holes.
• Pre-Strings 2019 Conference, KU Leuven, July 2 -5, 2019.
• ICTP Workshop on “New Pathways in Explorations of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity Beyond Supersymmetry”, Trieste, June 24-July 5, 2019.
• String Phenomenology 2019 Conference, CERN, June 24-28, 2019, Opening talk: Branes and the Swampland (slides, video).
• Gordon Research Conference on “String Theory and Cosmology”, Castelldefels, Spain, June 16-21, 2019.
• PHENO 2019 Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, May 6-8, 2019, Recent Developments in String Phenomenology.
• Microsoft Workshop on “Physics ∩ ML”, Microsoft Research, Redmond, April 25-26, 2019, Panel Discussion.
• Beyond Center Workshop on the Big Questions in Physics: “Quantum Gravity: Back to Basics?”, Tempe, AZ, February 16-18, 2019.
• Machine Learning Landscape Workshop, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, December 10-12, 2018.
• IBS Workshop on Prospects of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, December 4-6, 2018.
• Wolfgang Pauli Center Symposium for Theoretical Physics, DESY, Hamburg, November 7-9, 2018.
• “Strings and Particles at Ohio, Cincinnati, and Kentucky” (SPOCK) Symposium, Ohio State University, October 27, 2018.
• “Vistas over the Swampland” Workshop, IFT-Madrid, September 19-21, 2018, Weak Gravity Conjecture from Unitarity.
• Simons Summer Workshop on Recent Developments in the Swampland, Stony Brook, July 16-August 10, 2018, The String Swampland and Cosmology (video).
• String Phenomenology 2018 Conference, University of Warsaw, July 2-6, 2018.
• Machine Learning in Geometry and Physics Workshop, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum, June 11-15, 2018.
• Solvay/APC/PI workshop on Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics, Solvay Institute, Brussels, May 14-16, 2018.
• IPM Conference on “Recent Trends in String Theory and Related Topics”, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, May 7-11, 2018 [delivered online].
• Great Lake Strings Conference, University of Chicago, April 13-15, 2018.
• String Data 2018, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Munich, March 26-29, 2018.
• Sugawara Symposium on Fundamental Problems in Theoretical Physics, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, February 26-March 3, 2018.
• Workshop on String Field Theory and String Phenomenology, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India, February 5-15, 2018 [delivered online].
• String Data 2017, Northeastern University, November 30 – December 2, 2017.
• KIAS-YITP Joint Workshop 2017 “Strings, Gravity & Cosmology”, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, September 19-22, 2017.
• Lorentz Center Workshop “Theoretical Approaches to Cosmic Acceleration: Connecting String, Supergravity and Quantum Field Theory Aspects of (Near-) de Sitter Space”, Leiden University, July 3-7, 2017.
• String Phenomenology 2017, Virginia Tech, July 3-7, 2017.
• PASCOS 2017, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid, June 19-23, 2017.
• Gordon Research Conference on “String Theory and Cosmology”, Lucca, Italy, May 28 – June 2, 2017.
• ISGW 2017, International Symposium on Gravitational Waves, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 25-29, 2017,
  Keynote Talk “Testing Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves”.
• 5th Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics symposium, “Foundations of String Cosmology”, April 20-26, 2017.
• III Saha Theory Workshop: Aspects of Early Universe Cosmology, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, January 16-20, 2017.
• Focus Workshop on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea, December 5-9, 2016.
• Max Planck Society Workshop on “Geometry and Physics”, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, November 20-25, 2016.
• CoSMS Workshop on Naturalness, University of North Carolina, October 22-23, 2016.
• International Conference on frontiers of science on Quantum Cosmophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 29-31, 2016.
• International Workshop on String Phenomenology and String Cosmology, Center for Theoretical Physics, Sichuan University, July 24-30, 2016.
• PASCOS 2016, International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE), Quy Nhon, Vietnam, July 10-16, 2016.
• String Phenomenology 2016, University of Ioannina, Greece, June 20-24, 2016.
• Aspects of String Phenomenology and Cosmology (Fernando Quevedo’s 60-th Birthday Symposium), International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, May 12-13, 2016.
• The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Cosmology Workshop, IFT-Madrid, March 17-18, 2016.

• KEK Theory Seminar, December 19, 2024.
• Theory Seminar, University of Tokyo, December 18, 2024.
• Worldline Seminars (online), December 10, 2024.
• String Theory Seminar, University of Oviedo, September 16, 2024.
• Physics Colloquium, University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN, June 20, 2024.
• Harvard Swampland Seminar, Harvard University, April 29, 2024.
• Swampland Seminar Series, Harvard University, October 16, 2023 [online], Discussion on “Accelerated Expansion”.
• Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, June 29, 2023.
• Physics Colloquium, Northeastern University, April 20, 2023.
• HECAP Seminar, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, June 30, 2022.
• High Energy Theory Seminar, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, April 25, 2022.
• Physics Colloquium, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 14, 2022 [online].
• Swampland Seminar Series, Harvard University, November 15, 2021 [online], Discussion on “Swampland Constraints, Unitarity and Causality” (video).
• Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics Seminar, Texas A&M University, September 6, 2021 (postponed to Spring 2022).
• Invited lecture on “Microscopic Description of Brane Gauginos” at SUSY 2021, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, August 23-27, 2021 [online].
• Centre for Research in String Theory Seminar, Queen Mary University of London, April 29, 2021 [online].
• University of Southampton String Theory Seminar, March 16, 2021 [online].
• Physics Colloquium, Lehigh University, February 11, 2021 [online].
• Copernicus Webinar and Colloquium Series, February 4, 2021 [online].
• Imperial College London Theory Seminar, February 2, 2021 [online].
• Ben-Gurion University High Energy Group Seminar, January 11, 2021 [online].
• Nico van Kampen Colloquium, Utrecht University, December 2, 2020 [online].
• University of Nottingham Seminar for the Particle Cosmology and Quantum Gravity groups, November 25, 2020 [online].
• Quantum Aspects of Space-Time and Matter (QASTM) forum, September 10, 2020 [online].
• Seminar @ Albert-Einstein-Institute in Potsdam, September 23, 2019.
• Math/Physics Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September 19, 2019.
• Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Munich, July 17, 2019.
• Duality String Seminar, Harvard University, April 11, 2019.
• Cosmology Seminar, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Penn State University, March 22, 2019.
• Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University Seminar, February 11, 2019.
• Four Lectures on “The String Landscape and the Swampland”, Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles, and Cosmology, Seoul, Korea, January 7-17, 2019.
• Beyond the Standard Model and String Theory Seminar, University, of Heidelberg, November 5, 2018.
• Colloquium for the College of Sciences at the University of Colima, Mexico, August 16, 2018.
• Seminar @ Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing University of Technology, June 7, 2018.
• Zi-Ping Distinguished Lectures in Theoretical Physics, Beijing University of Technology, March 19-21, 2018.
• Five Lectures on “String Theory”, Beijing University of Technology, March 12-16, 2018.
• Teilchen-tee Seminar, University of Heidelberg, March 29, 2018.
• Cosmology Seminar, University of Amsterdam, May 24, 2018.
• Physics Colloquium, National Taiwan University, December 19, 2017.
• Nuclear and Particle Seminar, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, October 23, 2017.
• High Energy Theory Seminar, University of Minnesota, October 13, 2017.
• Cosmology Seminar, Kobe University, September 27, 2017.
• Seminar @ Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing University of Technology, December 1, 2016.
• Physics Colloquium, University of Notre Dame, November 9, 2016.
• Invited talk at Strings 2016 Conference, Tsinghua University, August 1-5, 2016.
• Lectures on “String Cosmology”, School and Workshop on “String Phenomenology and Cosmology”, Center for Theoretical Physics, Sichuan University, July 25-29, 2016.
• Physics Colloquium, University of Science and Technology of China, May 20, 2016.
• Cosmology Seminar, University of Amsterdam, May 17, 2016.
• Physics Colloquium, University of Padova and INFN, Italy, May 11, 2016.
• Four Lectures on “Inflation in String Theory”, the 10th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), January 6-16, 2016.

Invited talks before 2016 and public lectures can be found in full CV (available upon request).