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