Progress and Visions in Quantum Theory in View of Gravity: Bridging foundations of physics and mathematics
Program
All talks will be held in the Leibniz-Saal (E1 05),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).
| Monday, October 01, 2018 | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome Coffee & Registration | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome, Opening & Explanations | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Jürg Fröhlich (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Have the Information Paradox and the Unitarity Paradox disappeared? | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Tian Yu Cao (Boston University, USA) Can we conceive a quantum field theory without classical spacetime underpinnings? -- Conceptual issues in gauging gravity: from Utiyama to the spin form approach | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch buffet at the institute | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
Young scientists' talks | ||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Mojtaba Taslimitehrani (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Background independence in gauge theories | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ding Jia (Perimeter Institute, Canada) The principle of causal neutrality | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 19:00 | Welcome Dinner (à la carte and on individual payment) | |
| Tuesday, October 02, 2018 | ||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Dirk Deckert (Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, Germany) The phase of QED in external fields | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Gregory Naber (Drexel University, USA) Understanding “Understanding” | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Rainer Verch (Leipzig University, Germany) Quantum physics, fields and closed timelike curves:The D-CTC condition in quantum field theory | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch buffet at the institute | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Antonio Pereira (Universität Heidelberg, Germany) The asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity | |
| Wednesday, October 03, 2018 | ||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Chris Fewster (University of York, United Kingdom) Generally covariant measurement schemes for quantum field theory in curved spacetimes | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Olaf Lechtenfeld (University of Hanover, Germany) Yang-Mills and Maxwell configurations in de Sitter space: relevance for quantum theory? | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Shahn Majid (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom) Some finite quantum Riemannian geometries | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch buffet at the institute | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Plenary discussion session Topics announced during conference | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Get-together buffet at the institute | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Evening talk Hermann Nicolai (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany) E10, K(E10) and the Standard Model | |
| Thursday, October 04, 2018 | ||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Časlav Brukner (IQOQI Vienna, Austria) Time and Causality in Quantum Physics | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Damiano Anselmi (University of Pisa, Italy) The correspondence principle in quantum field theory and quantum gravity | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
Young scientists' talks | ||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Sofia Qvarfort (University College London, United Kingdom) Gravitational entanglement for Gaussian states | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Alessio Belenchia (IQOQI-Vienna, Austria) Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch buffet at the institute | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute, Canada) Operational quantum gravity | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| Friday, October 05, 2018 | ||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome Coffee | |
Young scientists' talks | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Daniela Cadamuro (Technische Universität München, Germany) Lower bounds for the energy density in quantum integrable models | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Pierre Martin-Dussaud (Aix-Marseille Université, France) The notion of locality in relational quantum mechanics | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Discussion sessions In parallel slots. Topics announced during conference | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Closing Session Synopsis of conference theme and discussion sessions | |
Date and Location
October 01 - 05, 2018
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
see travel instructions
Scientific Organizers
- Felix Finster, University of Regensburg, Regensburg (Germany)
- Domenico Giulini, University of Hanover (Germany)
- Johannes Kleiner, University of Hanover (Germany)
- Jürgen Tolksdorf, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (Germany)
Administrative Contact
Antje VandenbergMPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig (Germany)
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