08:30
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--- Registration ---
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09:15
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Niayesh Afshordi
(University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:30
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Quantum Gravity and its connection to observations
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Astrid Eichhorn
(University of Southern Denmark)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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10:15
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Imaging Supermassive Black Holes and mapping spacetime
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Roman Gold
(University of Southern Denmark)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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11:00
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--- Coffee Break ---
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11:30
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The Spacetime of Acceleration
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Ruth Gregory
(King's College, London)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:00
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Emergent Metric Space-Time from the BFSS Matrix Model
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Robert Brandenberger
(McGill University)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:45
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Where effective field theory fails: Windows into quantum gravity?
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Adam Koberinski
(University of Pittsburgh)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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10:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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11:00
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Experimental Cosmology
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Matthew Johnson
(Perimeter Institute & York University)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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11:45
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Final but Incomplete?
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Richard Dawid
(Stockholm University)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:00
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Universality of black hole thermodynamics
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Samir Mathur
(Ohio State University)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:45
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Causality at the End-of-World
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Beni Yoshida
(Perimeter Institute)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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10:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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11:00
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Do First-Class Constraints Generate Gauge Transformations? A Geometric Perspective.
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Clara Bradley
(University of California, Irvine)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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11:45
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Quantum Superpositions of Black Holes
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Robert Mann
(University of Waterloo)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:00
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Echoes and Entropy of Quantum Black Holes
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Naritaka Oshita
(Kyoto University)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:45
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Looking for Echoes from Quantum Black Holes
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Jahed Abedi
(University of Stavanger)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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10:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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11:00
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The H0 tension and sample variance
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Will Percival
(University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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11:45
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The S8 tension in cosmology
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Mike Hudson
(University of Waterloo )
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:00
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Physics with non-perturbative quantum gravity: the end of the Hawking evaporation
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Carlo Rovelli
(Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT))
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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09:45
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Primordial fluctuations from quantum gravity
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Francesca Vidotto
(Western University)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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10:30
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--- Break ---
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11:00
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Analogical reasoning in quantum gravity
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Doreen Fraser
(University of Waterloo)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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11:45
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The emergence of spacetime is governed by a quantum Mach's principle
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Lee Smolin
(Perimeter Institute)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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12:15
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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What is the simplicity of the early universe trying to tell us?
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Latham Boyle
(Perimeter Institute)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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14:45
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Are we considering enough? Inclusivity in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
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Jarita Holbrook
(University of Edinburgh)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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15:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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16:00
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Panel Discussion I: Where and when will Quantum Gravity crack? What are we missing?
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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The role of singularities in the search for quantum gravity
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Karen Crowther
(University of Oslo)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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14:45
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Conversations & controversies in the early universe
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Phil Halper
(Independent)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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15:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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16:00
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Panel Discussion II: Do we need Quantum Gravity to crack the Big Bang? What about inflation? fact or fiction?
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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In Search of Lost Spacetime
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Chris Smeenk
(Western University)
(PI/1-100 - Theatre)
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15:00
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--- Coffee Break ---
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15:30
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Holographic Cosmology
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Paul McFadden
(Newcastle University)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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16:15
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Panel Discussion III: Holography: fact or fiction?
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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17:00
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--- Banquet ---
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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Nonlocality in the causal set approach to quantum gravity
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Fay Dowker
(Imperial College London)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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14:45
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Everpresent Λ Cosmology
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Yasaman Yazdi
(Imperial College London)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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15:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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16:00
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Panel Discussion IV: UV/IR coupling in Quantum Gravity: Feature or Bug?[
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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Wrap Up and Discussion: An inclusive roadmap for cracking Quantum Gravity
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Steve Weinstein
(University of Waterloo)
(PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
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