An updated version of the schedule can be found below.
All talks will take place at the Mike and Ophelia Laziridis Quantum Nano-Centre (QNC) Room 0101, accessible from the ground floor of the QNC building. Coffee breaks will also be provided in the back of this space. There will be 2-hour Lunch breaks, during which attendees can explore local dining options (Saint-Jerome's University cafeteria, the Student Life Centre food court, the Grad House, and the "Plaza" are all options, which will be presented before lunch).
Monday evening, we will be hosting a special Trivia Night at the Grad House (on campus) starting at 6pm. We will give you all time to order food and/or drinks before the trivia truly gets under way.
Tuesday evening will be the Banquet Dinner hosted at Proof Kitchen + Lounge (in the Delta Hotel in Uptown Waterloo) starting at 6pm. You will be provided one drink ticket with your registration. The banquet is complementary to your registration, but any additional drinks are not covered.
09:00 - Registration
09:15 - Opening Remarks (Fil Simovic, University of Waterloo)
09:30 - Black hole evolution and internal structure: constraints from the stability operator (Ivan Booth, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
10:00 - Holomorphic Unified Field Theory (John Moffat, Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo )
10:30 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Decoherence by black holes and the surface area uncertainty relation (Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura, University of Tokyo )
11:30 - Talk 4 (Magdalena Zych, Stockholm University ) -> Postponed
12:00 - Lunch Break
14:00 - From quasi-topological gravity to regular black holes (Robie Hennigar, Durham University )
14:30 - Will a black hole be unitary if there is no event horizon? (Dong-han Yeom, Pusan National University )
15:00 - Coffee Break
15:30 - Thermodynamics with Lambda: How Robb became a passionate chemist (David Kubiznak, Charles University )
16:00 - Gauge/gravity thermodynamics dictionary with central charge (Wan Cong, University of Vienna )
16:30 - Break
18:00 - Trivia Night at the Grad House (Paul McGrath, University of Waterloo)
09:30 - The hidden symmetries of slowly rotating black holes (Finnian Gray, University of Vienna )
10:00 - New Developments in Gravitational Instantons (Hari Kunduri, McMaster University )
10:30 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Quantum signatures of proper time in optical ion clocks (Joshua Foo, University of Waterloo )
11:30 - Special Announcement + Group Photo
12:00 - Lunch Break
14:00 - Modems for Space and Terrestrial Communications (Wilson Brenna, Calian Advanced Technologies )
14:30 - Talk 6 (Magdalena Zych, Stockholm University )
15:00 - Coffee Break
15:30 - Quantum anomalies and how to observe them (Sergey Solodukhin, University of Tours )
16:00 - Entanglement harvesting in conformal field theory (Robert C. Myers, Perimeter Institute )
16:30 - Break
18:00 - Banquet Dinner @ Proof Kitchen + Lounge (Delta Hotel)
09:30 - Quantum Gravity in the Wild (Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo )
10:00 - Talk 2 (Brayden Hull, University of Lethbridge )
10:30 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Wavefunction zeros and single-quadrature tests of quantum non-Gaussianity (Jack Davis, INRIA & ENS-PSL )
11:30 - A Mannifold of Good Questions (Alex R. H. Smith, Saint Anselm College & Dartmouth College )
12:00 - Lunch Break
14:00 - Final Talk (Robert B. Mann, University of Waterloo)
14:30 - Closing Remarks (Everett Patterson, University of Waterloo)