Programme
Wednesday 19 September
08:15-08:45 Welcoming coffee
08:45-9:00 Sotiris Loucatos (APC deputy director), opening
09:00-9:40 Alexei A Starobinsky, Looking for observable gravitational quantum effects in the Universe
09:45-10:25 Clifford P. Burgess, Gravitational Fields as Open Systems: Potential Surprises from QFT in Curved Space
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11h40 Jérôme Martin, Quantum inequalities and the CMB
11:45-12:25 Daniel Sudarsky, Reassessing the scalar tensor mode relationship in the context of modified treatments of the gravity / quantum interface
14:00-14:40 Sean Carroll, Quantum Circuit Cosmology
14:45-15:25 Tejinder Pal Singh, Space and time as a consequence of Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber quantum jumps
15:30-16:10 Nelson Pinto Neto, The de Broglie-Bohm approach to quantum cosmology
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:25 Andrew Jaffe, Intersection of QBism and Cosmology
17:30-18:10 Julien Serreau, Stability of de Sitter spacetime against infrared quantum scalar field fluctuations
20:00-onwards: Conference diner
Thursday 20 September
08:30-09:00 Welcoming coffee
09:00-9:40 David Kaiser, Cosmic Bell Experiments: Testing Bell’s Inequality with Measurement Settings from Distant Astronomical Objects
09:45-10:25 Francesco Marino, Testing Quantum Gravity Models in Optomechanical Experiments
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11h40 Jiri Minar, Open quantum dynamics and its application to cosmology
11:45-12:25 Hendrik Ulbricht, Prospects for using levitated optomechanics to test fundamental physics
14:00-14:40 Richard Holman, Oh, What an (En)Tangled Web we Weave...: Inflation and the space of Initial States
14:45-15:25 Tomislav Prokopec, Inflation, asymptotic safety and conformal symmetry
15:30-16:10 Vincent Vennin, Quantum decoherence during inflation
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:25 William H. Kinney, Eternal Inflation in Hilltop Models
17:30-18:10 Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Inflation, Geometry and Stochasticity
Friday 21 September
08:30-09:00 Welcoming coffee
09:00-9:40 Gerardo Adesso, Generic emergence of objectivity of observables in infinite dimensions
09:45-10:25 Mauro Paternostro, Revealing quantumness without looking
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11h40 Angelo Bassi, Testing spontaneous wave function collapse: from the lab to the universe
11:45-12:25 Alessio Belenchia, Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantisation of Gravity
14:00-14:40 Fay Dowker, The Cosmological “Constant” Lambda as a Quantum Gravity Effect
14:45-15:25 Ward Struyve, Must space-time be singular?
15:30-16:10 Nishant Agarwal, Open system dynamics in the early Universe
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:25 Tommi Markkanen, De Sitter stability and Coarse Graining
17:30-18:10 Sayantan Choudhury, Quantum entanglement in De Sitter cosmology: A study using stringy Axion with Bunch Davies and alpha vacua