Quantum Spacetime in the Cosmos: From Conception to Reality

from Monday, 8 May 2023 (08:30) to Friday, 12 May 2023 (17:00)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI/4-405)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 May 2023
9 May 2023
10 May 2023
11 May 2023
12 May 2023
AM
08:30 --- Registration ---
09:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks - Niayesh Afshordi (University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:30 Quantum Gravity and its connection to observations - Astrid Eichhorn (University of Southern Denmark)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:15 Imaging Supermassive Black Holes and mapping spacetime - Roman Gold (University of Southern Denmark)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 The Spacetime of Acceleration - Ruth Gregory (King's College, London)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:00 Emergent Metric Space-Time from the BFSS Matrix Model - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:45 Where effective field theory fails: Windows into quantum gravity? - Adam Koberinski (University of Pittsburgh)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Experimental Cosmology - Matthew Johnson (Perimeter Institute & York University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
11:45 Final but Incomplete? - Richard Dawid (Stockholm University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:00 Universality of black hole thermodynamics - Samir Mathur (Ohio State University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:45 Causality at the End-of-World - Beni Yoshida (Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Do First-Class Constraints Generate Gauge Transformations? A Geometric Perspective. - Clara Bradley (University of California, Irvine)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
11:45 Quantum Superpositions of Black Holes - Robert Mann (University of Waterloo)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:00 Echoes and Entropy of Quantum Black Holes - Naritaka Oshita (Kyoto University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:45 Looking for Echoes from Quantum Black Holes - Jahed Abedi (University of Stavanger)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 The H0 tension and sample variance - Will Percival (University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
11:45 The S8 tension in cosmology - Mike Hudson (University of Waterloo )   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:00 Physics with non-perturbative quantum gravity: the end of the Hawking evaporation - Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT))   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
09:45 Primordial fluctuations from quantum gravity - Francesca Vidotto (Western University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00 Analogical reasoning in quantum gravity - Doreen Fraser (University of Waterloo)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
11:45 The emergence of spacetime is governed by a quantum Mach's principle - Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
PM
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00 What is the simplicity of the early universe trying to tell us? - Latham Boyle (Perimeter Institute)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
14:45 Are we considering enough? Inclusivity in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology - Jarita Holbrook (University of Edinburgh)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Panel Discussion I: Where and when will Quantum Gravity crack? What are we missing?   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 The role of singularities in the search for quantum gravity - Karen Crowther (University of Oslo)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
14:45 Conversations & controversies in the early universe - Phil Halper (Independent)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Panel Discussion II: Do we need Quantum Gravity to crack the Big Bang? What about inflation? fact or fiction?   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 In Search of Lost Spacetime - Chris Smeenk (Western University)   (PI/1-100 - Theatre)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 Holographic Cosmology - Paul McFadden (Newcastle University)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
16:15 Panel Discussion III: Holography: fact or fiction?   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
17:00 --- Banquet ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Nonlocality in the causal set approach to quantum gravity - Fay Dowker (Imperial College London)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
14:45 Everpresent Λ Cosmology - Yasaman Yazdi (Imperial College London)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Panel Discussion IV: UV/IR coupling in Quantum Gravity: Feature or Bug?[   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Wrap Up and Discussion: An inclusive roadmap for cracking Quantum Gravity - Steve Weinstein (University of Waterloo)   (PI/4-405 - Bob Room)