Future Challenges in Holography and Quantum Gravity

from Monday, 28 September 2026 (09:00) to Tuesday, 29 September 2026 (18:30)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
28 Sept 2026
29 Sept 2026
AM
09:30 How to engineer a holographic CFT - Alejandra Castro  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Alex Belin is a great guy - Eric Perlmutter  
09:30 Fortuity in ABJM - Alberto Zaffaroni (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 de Sitter vacua and pUniverses - Tarek Anous (Queen Mary University of London)  
PM
12:00 Energy Correlators in CFTs - Matthew Walters (Heriot-Watt University)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:15 Open dS Holography - Diego Hofman (University of Amsterdam)  
15:15 Timelike Liouville theory and AdS3 gravity at finite cutoff - Edgar Shaghoulian (University of California, Santa Cruz)  
16:15 --- coffee break ---
16:30 The fate of 1/4-BPS states in the D1D5 CFT - Suzanne Bintanja (University of California, Los Angeles)  
17:30 Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Goldstone modes for information propagation in deep learning - Nabil Iqbal (Durham University)  
12:00 Gravitational dynamics in the presence of finite boundaries - Damian Galante (King's college London)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:15 Observation of gravity-like signatures in holographic codes on a quantum computer - Grant Salton  
15:15 Tensor models for SU(2) Chern-Simons - Diego Liska (EPFL, Lausanne)  
16:15 --- coffee break ---
16:30 Cardy Random Matrices - Julian Sonner (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
17:30 talk by De Boer - Jan De Boer (University of Amsterdam)