Unraveling the quantum nature of gravity is one of the most pressing problems of theoretical physics. Several ideas have been put forward and have resulted in several theories of quantum gravity. While these theories have explored different facets of the "quantum gravity landscape", all viable approaches should ultimately make contact with observations and answer exciting questions in cosmology and black-hole physics.
Sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas, and building a dictionary among different theories are crucial steps toward answering these questions, efficiently contrasting them, and ultimately reaching a deeper understanding of our Universe.
This conference will contribute to these goals by bringing together leading experts in different approaches to quantum gravity, gravitational effective field theory, black-hole physics, and cosmology. We will focus on specific puzzles in quantum gravity and their resolutions within different approaches. The conference will be highly interactive, with plenty of time to discuss common problems, understand the big picture, and develop novel connections between fields.
This is the second edition of the conference. The first edition was held at Perimeter Institute in 2023.
Topics include: effective field theory, amplitudes, s-matrix bootstrap, non-commutative geometry, string theory and the swampland program, loop quantum gravity and spin foams, asymptotic safety and dynamical triangulations, causal sets, group field theory, and quantum gravity phenomenology.
Confirmed invited speakers:
- Gianguido Dall'Agata (Padua U)
- Anne-Christine Davis (Cambridge U)
- Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter I)
- Fay Dowker (Imperial College)
- Astrid Eichhorn (Heidelberg U)
- Roberto Emparan (Barcelona U)
- Steffen Gielen (Sheffield U)
- Alessandra Gnecchi (Padua U)
- Andrea Guerrieri (London City U)
- Fedele Lizzi (Naples U)
- Renate Loll (Radboud U)
- Roberto Percacci (SISSA)
- Jan Plefka* (Humboldt U Berlin)
- Fernando Quevedo* (NYU Abu Dhabi)
- Hanno Sahlmann (Erlangen-Nürnberg U)
* to be confirmed