Observables in Quantum Gravity: from Theory to Experiment

from Sunday 12 January 2025 (17:00) to Friday 17 January 2025 (13:00)
Aspen Center for Physics

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12 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025
AM
08:35 Opening Remarks - Antony Speranza   ()
08:45 Hong Liu - Emergence of spacetime in holography - Hong Liu   ()
09:30 --- Morning break ---
10:00 Molly Kaplan - De Sitter quantum gravity and the emergence of local algebras - Molly Kaplan   ()
10:45 Steve Giddings - Quantum gravity observables: observation, algebras, and mathematical structure - Steve Giddings   ()
11:30 --- Midday break ---
08:45 Jake Taylor - Pushing the experimental limits for testing quantum aspects of gravity - Jake Taylor   ()
09:30 --- Morning Break ---
10:00 Markus Aspelmeyer - Quantum sources of gravity in table-top experiments: status & challenges - Markus Aspelmeyer   ()
10:45 Sander Vermeulen - Photon Counting Interferometry to Detect Geontropic Space-Time Fluctuations with GQuEST   ()
11:30 --- Midday Break ---
08:45 Ben Freivogel - Quantum Widths of the Black Hole Horizon - Ben Freivogel   ()
09:30 --- Morning Break ---
10:00 Jordan Wilson-Gerow - Decoherence by warm horizons - Jordan Wilson-Gerow   ()
10:45 Daine Danielson - Horizon Algebras and Soft Quantum Information - Daine Danielson   ()
11:30 --- Midday Break ---
08:45 Philipp Hoehn - Gravitational algebras, entropies, and quantum reference frames - Philipp Hoehn   ()
09:30 --- Morning Break ---
10:00 Eugenia Colafranceschi - Constructing observables in quantum gravity: an axiomatic path integral approach - Eugenia Colafranceschi   ()
10:45 Elliott Gesteau - Limits of observables and the emergence of causality - Elliott Gesteau   ()
11:30 --- Midday Break ---
08:45 Andrew Lucas - The reconstruction map in JT gravity - Andrew Lucas   ()
09:30 --- Midday Break ---
10:00 Julian Sonner - Quantum simulating holographic duality - Julian Sonner   ()
10:45 Jonathan Jeffrey - Towards Holography with Cold Atoms in a Cavity - Jonathan Jeffrey   ()
PM
17:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
16:30 Bryce Kobrin and Trond Anderson - Towards new applications with hybrid analog-digital quantum simulators - Trond Anderson Bryce Kobrin   ()
17:30 --- Evening Break ---
18:00 Brian Swingle - Statistical Probes of the Black Hole Interior - Brian Swingle   ()
16:30 Mark Van Raamsdonk - Cosmology from holography - Mark Van Raamsdonk   ()
17:15 Batoul Banihashemi - Gravitational ensembles with conformal boundaries - Batoul Banihashemi   ()
18:00 Poster Session   ()
17:30 Public Lecture - Dan Carney - 100 Years of Quantum Space-time: from Theory to Experiment - Dan Carney   ()
16:30 Daniel Green - Cosmological Observables and their Quantum Origins - Daniel Green   ()
17:15 --- Evening Break ---
17:45 Kathryn Zurek - The quantum mechanics of a causal diamond - Kathryn Zurek   ()
19:00 --- Banquet - Aspen Meadows ---