- Quantum gravity (Damiano Anselmi, Massimo Campostrini, Pietro Menotti)
- Conformal field theory (Damiano Anselmi, Pietro Menotti)
- String theory and gauge/gravity duality ( Stefano Bolognesi)
- Supersymmetric quantum field theories (Kenichi Konishi, Stefano Bolognesi)
- Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model (Alessandro Strumia)