Lemaître Conference 2024

from Sunday 16 June 2024 (19:00) to Friday 21 June 2024 (22:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Jun 2024
17 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024
AM
09:00 Welcome & introduction - Guy Consolmagno (Specola Vaticana)   ()
09:40 The Origin and Meaning of the Primeval Atom Hypothesis: how quantum physics meets Lemaître's cosmology - Dominique Lambert (University of Namur)   ()
10:20 Quantum theory of the Lemaitre model for gravitational collapse - Claus Kiefer (U)   ()
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Again about singularity crossing in gravitation and cosmology - Alexander Kamenshchik   ()
09:00 LCDM: the road ahead - Michael Turner (University of Chicago)   ()
09:40 The Future of Cosmology - Joseph Silk (Paris, Inst. Astrophys. and Johns Hopkins U. and Oxford U.)   ()
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Lemaitre: getting Hubble into troubles a century later - Licia Verde   ()
11:30 The Hubble Tension: New Results from JWST - Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago)   ()
09:00 Primordial black holes and gravitational waves from inflation - Misao Sasaki   ()
09:40 Present status of inflationary cosmology - Andrei Linde   ()
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Memory Burden Effect in Black Holes and in de Sitter - Gia Dvali   ()
11:30 Sharp Bounds on the Landscape - Hiroshi Oguri   ()
06:15 Event in the Vatican   ()
09:00 A Background Independent Algebra for Gravity - Edward Witten (Department of Physics-Princeton University-Unknown)   ()
09:40 Recent progress in classical string cosmology - Gabriele Veneziano   ()
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Recent progress on inflation and dark energy from string theory - Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)   ()
11:30 Black Hole Binary Dynamics and Radiation from Classical and Quantum Gravitational Scattering - Thibault Damour (nstitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)   ()
PM
19:30 --- Welcoming reception & Registration ---
12:10 Classical Gravity Contains Quantum Mechanics - Raphael Bousso (University of California, Berkeley)   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
15:00 The Enigmatic gravitational partition function. - Theodore Jacobson (University of Maryland)   ()
15:40 Mapping the road from the Planckian end - Renate Loll (Radboud University Nijmegen)   ()
16:20 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50 The scale(s) of quantum gravity and integrable black holes - Prof. Roberto Casadio (Bologna University)   ()
17:30 Evening discussion   ()
12:10 Cosmology with gravitational-wave observations - Patrick Brady   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
15:00 JWST Weighs in on the Hubble Tension - Adam Riess (John Hopkins University)   ()
15:40 Addressing the so-called quantum/classical “divide” in gravitational contexts, and its implications in cosmology - Daniel Sudarsky (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)   ()
16:20 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50 The Big Bang and its Dark-Matter Content: Whence, Whither and Wherefore—Part 2 - Roger Penrose (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)   ()
17:30 Evening discussion   ()
12:10 On the Fate of Our Universe - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
15:00 Primeval Atom 2.0 - Thomas Hertog (KULeuven)   ()
15:40 LIGO is Quantum - William Unruh (University of British Columbia)   ()
16:20 --- Coffee Break ---
16:50 Gravitational Waves: the Theorist's Swiss knife - Maria Sakellariadou   ()
17:30 Evening discussion   ()
20:00 --- Social Dinner ---
12:10 Tidal interactions in binary inspirals - Eric Poisson (University of Guelph)   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
15:00 Postquantum stochastic semiclassical gravity: world without Schrödinger cats - Lajos Diosi (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)   ()
15:40 Evening discussion - Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)   ()
16:20 --- Coffee Break + Gardens + Specola Visitor Center ---
21:00 Public Lecture (IN ITALIAN)   ()