Causal Inference & Quantum Foundations Workshop

from Monday, 17 April 2023 (08:30) to Friday, 21 April 2023 (17:00)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI/4-405)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Apr 2023
18 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023
20 Apr 2023
21 Apr 2023
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks - Elie Wolfe (Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:00 Tutorial 1 - Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Graphical models: fundamentals, origins, and beyond - Steffen Lauritzen (University of Copenhagen)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:30 Communication Genuine Multipartite Nonlocality as a benchmark for large nonclassicality - Marc-Olivier Renou (Institute of Photonic Sciences)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:00 Separation of quantum, spatial quantum and approximate quantum correlations - Salman Beigi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Causal Scenarios: the Interesting, the Boring and the Elusive - Matthew Pusey (University of York)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
11:30 --- Breakout Groups ---
09:30 A Hierarchy of Multi-Party Nonlocal Effects - Peter Bierhorst (University of New Orleans)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:00 Conditional Independence - Revisited - Patrick Forre (Universiteit van Amsterdam)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 --- Breakout Groups ---
09:30 Is causal optimization polynomial optimization? - David Gross (University of Cologne)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:00 SDP approaches for quantum polynomial optimization - Laurens Ligthart (University of Cologne)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 --- Breakout Groups ---
09:30 Half-Trek Criterion for Identifiability of Latent Variable Models - Mathias Drton (Technical University Munich)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:00 Some applications of Causal Inference in the real world - Ciaran Gilligan-Lee (Spotify and University College London)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 --- Breakout Groups ---
PM
12:00 Towards standard imsets for maximal ancestral graphs - Robin Evans (University of Oxford)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Tutorial 2 - Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 Correlations from joint measurements in boxworld and applications to information processing - Mirjam Weilenmann (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
16:00 Observational Equivalences Between Causal Structures with Latent Variables - Marina Maciel Ansanelli (Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
16:30 Entropic Inequality Constraints from e-separation Relations in Directed Acyclic Graphs with Hidden Variables - Beata Zjawin (Gdansk University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Causal Discovery via Common Entropy - Murat Kocaoglu (Purdue University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
14:30 Quantum causal inference in the presence of hidden common causes: An entropic approach - Mohammad Ali Javidian (Appalachian State University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 --- Breakout Groups ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 A quantum tale of causes and effects - Rafael Chaves (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)   (PI/1-100 - Theatre)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 Bounding counterfactual distributions in discrete structural causal models - Jin Tian (Iowa State University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
16:00 Quantum entropic causal inference - Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University) Zubin Jacob (Purdue University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
16:30 Latent variable justifies the stronger instrumental variable bounds - Richard Guo (University of Cambridge)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
17:00 --- Banquet ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Certifying long-range quantum correlations through routed Bell experiments - Stefano Pironio (Université Libre de Bruxelles)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
14:30 Causal-model approach to extended contextuality - Matt Jones (University of Colorado)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 --- Breakout Groups ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Panel Discussion - Sonia Markes (University of Toronto)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 --- Breakout Groups ---