PROGRAM
SUNDAY, 5th July
9:00 – 9:20 Welcome (Kemeny 008, Mathematics Department)
9:20-10:00 John Preskill (Caltech) Is spacetime a quantum error-correcting code?
10:00-10:40 Robert Mann (U. Waterloo) Gravity as a quantum simulation
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:40 Jorma Louko (U. Nottingham) Did the chicken survive the firewall?
11:40-12:20 Raúl Carballo (IAA-CSIC, Granada) Where does the physics of extreme gravitational collapse reside?
12:20-14:00 Lunch break (1953 Commons)
14:00-14:40 Fay Dowker (Imperial College) The path integral approach to quantum mechanics and a quantum “Fine trio’’
14:40-15:20 Achim Kempf (U. Waterloo) What if spacetime has finite bandwidth?
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:20 Angelo Bassi (U. Trieste) Gravity and collapse of the wave function
16:20-17:00 Larry Ford (Tufts U.) Decoherence induced by long wavelength gravitons
17:00-17:20 Andrzej Dragan (U. Warsaw) The effect of gravity on Gaussian states
17:20-17:40 Igor Pikovski (CFA-Harvard) Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation
19:00- Banquet (Hayward Ballroom, Hanover Inn)
MONDAY, 6th July
9:00-9:40 Jeff Steinhauer (Technion) Observation of self-amplifying Hawking radiation in an analog black hole laser
9:40-10:20 Chris Wilson (U. Waterloo) Exploring the vacuum with superconducting circuits
10:20-10:40 Paulina Corona (U. Waterloo) TBA
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:40 Paul Alsing (AFRL-Rome NY) Page information and entanglement in black hole particle production/evaporation modeled as parametric down conversion with a depleted pump
11:40-12:00 Aida Ahmadzadegan (U. Waterloo) Can the Unruh effect be amplified?
12:00-12:20 Alexander Smith (U. Waterloo) Spacetime topology and quantum field theory
12:20-14:00 Lunch break (1953 Commons)
14:00-14:40 Shih-Yuin Lin (National Changhua U.) Dynamics of detectors in an Einstein cylinder
14:40-15:20 Eduardo Martin-Martinez (U. Waterloo) Cosmology, warp drives and relativistic quantum communication
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:20 Nicolas Menicucci (U. Sydney) TBA
16:20-16:40 Yu Shi (Fudan U.) Life and death of entanglement of qubits that detect the Unruh effect
16:40-17:00 Robert Jonsson (U. Waterloo) Communication between accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors
17:00-17:20 Keith Ng (U. Waterloo) Particle detectors in (curved) space: the equivalence principle and quantum field theory
17:20-17:40 Wilson Brenna (U. Waterloo) The anti-Unruh effect
TUESDAY, 7th July
9:00-9:40 Daniel Terno (Macquarie U.) Relativistic quantum information in a non-sci-fi setting
9:40-10:20 Caslav Brukner (U. Vienna) Gravitational interaction of quantum clocks
10:20-10:40 Krzysztof Lorek (U. Warsaw) Ideal clocks – a convenient fiction
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:40 Charis Anastopoulos (U. Patras) Towards a general theory for relativistic quantum measurements
11:40-12:00 James Van Meter (U. C. Boulder) Locally covariant approach to relativistic quantum metrology
12:20-14:00 Lunch break (1953 Commons)
14:00-14:40 Benni Reznik (Tel Aviv U.) Remote state preparation in relativistic quantum field theory
14:40-15:00 Nicolai Friis (U. Innsbruck) Heisenberg scaling in relativistic quantum metrology
15:00-15:20 Daiqin Su (U. Queensland) Space-time diamonds
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:00 Magdalena Zych (U. Queensland) Bell inequalities for temporal order of events
15:00-16:20 Fabio Costa (U. Queensland) Witnessing causal separability
19:00-20:00 Public Lecture (Wilder 104, Physics Department)
John Preskill (Caltech) Quantum computing and the entanglement frontier
WEDNESDAY, 8th July
9:00-9:20 Ian Durham (St. Anselm College) Quantum reference frames for CPT inversion symmetry
9:20-10:00 Adrian Kent (Cambridge U.) Relativistic quantum tasks
10:00-10:40 Masahiro Hotta (Tohoku U.) The fall of the black hole firewall: natural nonmaximal entanglement for the Page curve
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:40 John Donoghue (U. Mass Amherst) The effective field theory of quantum general relativity
11:40-12:20 Bill Unruh (U. British Columbia) Partners
12:20-14:00 Lunch break (1953 Commons)
14:00- Hike