Invited Talks

• BIRS (Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery) Workshop on Recent Development of Quantum Gravity and Applications to Cosmology and Black Hole Physics, Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM) in Hangzhou, China, May 31-June 5, 2026, Keynote Talk “From Black Holes to the Big Bang: Decoding Quantum Gravity”.
• Strings and Geometry, Uppsala University, Sweden, May 19-22, 2026.
• SCALE (Strings and Cosmology All Lengths Explored), Tenerife, the Canary Islands, May 11-15, 2026, Keynote talk: “Late-time acceleration in string theory”; Discussion: “Can inflation be derived from a UV complete Theory?”
• Recent Progress in Computational String Geometry, Banff International Research Station – Chennai Mathematical Institute Workshop, January 26-31, 2026.
• Strings & Cosmology Meeting, LAPTh, Annecy, December 10-12, 2025.
• String Data 2025, Cambridge University and London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, December 8-10, 2025.
• Quantum100 x AI Workshop, University of Munster, November 12-14, 2025.
• Strings in Seoul 2025, KIAS, September 22-26, 2025.
• International Workshop on New Opportunities for Particle Physics, Beijing, July 18-20, 2025.
• International Congress of Basic Science, Beijing, July 13-25, 2025.
• 24th International String Phenomenology Conference, Northeastern University, July 7-11, 2025.
• Lotus & Swamplandia 2025, Naxos, Greece, June 4-6, 2025, Discussion: Connecting String Theory to the Real World.
• Planck 2025 – the 27th in the series of Conferences “From the Planck scale to the electroweak scale”, Padua, Italy, May 26-30, 2025, Black Holes and Quantum Gravity.
• RIKEN Mini-Workshop on Neuro Science, iTHEMS, RIKEN, May 16, 2025, Summary talk: Mathematical Science and the Brain.
• KEK Workshop on Topological Analysis in Data Science, KEK, May 10, 2025, The Topology of Data: from String Theory to Cosmology to Phases of Matter.
• NSF Workshop on the Future of AI and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, MIT, March 24-26, 2025.
• “The Lotus and the Swampland” School and Conference, TSIMF, Sanya, China, Feb. 10-13, 2025, Lecture: “Early Universe, Inflation and Quantum Gravity”; Conference talk: The Weak Gravity Conjecture.
• 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.

• Quantum Cosmology Seminar, April 9, 2026.
• Seminar, University of Minnesota-Duluth, March 27, 2026.
• Physics Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, January 29, 2026.
• Swampland Seminar Series, October 21, 2025 [online], “Searching for String-Theoretic Dark Energy”.
• Physics Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 17, 2025.
• RIKEN Seminar on “Topology and Brain Science“, May 16, 2025.
• KEK Theory Seminar, May 12, 2025.
• Nordita Seminar, May 6, 2025.
• Nordita Niels Bohr Colloquium, May 5, 2025.
• 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).