Leinweber Network Workshop : Quantum Black Holes
from
Saturday, 10 October 2026 (08:00)
to
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 (18:00)
Monday, 5 October 2026
Tuesday, 6 October 2026
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Friday, 9 October 2026
Saturday, 10 October 2026
09:30
Welcome Address
Welcome Address
09:30 - 09:40
Room: 340 West Hall
09:40
Jordan Cotler - The “State” of Quantum Cosmology
Jordan Cotler - The “State” of Quantum Cosmology
09:40 - 10:20
Room: 340 West Hall
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
Room: 337 West Hall
11:00
Per Kraus - Enhanced Correlations in Hawking Radiation from Near-Extremal Collapse
Per Kraus - Enhanced Correlations in Hawking Radiation from Near-Extremal Collapse
11:00 - 11:40
Room: 340 West Hall
11:40
Emil Martinec - The black hole S-matrix in gauge/gravity duality
Emil Martinec - The black hole S-matrix in gauge/gravity duality
11:40 - 12:20
Room: 340 West Hall
12:20
Lunch Break (Self organized)
Lunch Break (Self organized)
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
Jerome Gauntlett - Localizaing the M-theory Path Integral
Jerome Gauntlett - Localizaing the M-theory Path Integral
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 340 West Hall
14:40
Claire Zukowski - Wilson Spools and de Sitter Quantum Gravity
Claire Zukowski - Wilson Spools and de Sitter Quantum Gravity
14:40 - 15:20
Room: 340 West Hall
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00
Room: 337 West Hall
16:00
Henry Lin - Non-singlets and the phase diagram of Matrix Quantum Mechanics
Henry Lin - Non-singlets and the phase diagram of Matrix Quantum Mechanics
16:00 - 16:40
Room: 340 West Hall
16:40
Juan Maldacena - The single minus graviton amplitudes from the matrix model
Juan Maldacena - The single minus graviton amplitudes from the matrix model
16:40 - 17:20
Room: 340 West Hall
17:20
Gong Show - (Bajaj, Deddo, L Lin, P Lin)
Gong Show - (Bajaj, Deddo, L Lin, P Lin)
17:20 - 18:00
Room: 340 West Hall
1) Kabir Bajaj - Wilson coefficients from a non-renormalization theorem in 2D SYM 2) Evan Deddo - Chasing M-theory saddles with the 3d superconformal index 3) Loki Lin - A melonic quantum mechanical model without disorder 4) Puxin Lin - Wormhole fragmentation and the axion Weak Gravity Conjecture
18:00
Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Room: 337 West Hall
Sunday, 11 October 2026
09:00
Tom Hartman - Remarks on the Metric on 4D QFTs
Tom Hartman - Remarks on the Metric on 4D QFTs
09:00 - 09:40
Room: 340 West Hall
09:40
Seok Kim - Quantum black hole cohomologies
Seok Kim - Quantum black hole cohomologies
09:40 - 10:20
Room: 340 West Hall
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
Room: 337 West Hall
11:00
Herman Verlinde - Geometry of time-ordered and out-of-time ordered correlators in dS_3
Herman Verlinde - Geometry of time-ordered and out-of-time ordered correlators in dS_3
11:00 - 11:40
Room: 340 West Hall
11:40
Ying Zhao - Anti-scrambling and euclidean folds from observer correlators in de Sitter space
Ying Zhao - Anti-scrambling and euclidean folds from observer correlators in de Sitter space
11:40 - 12:20
Room: 340 West Hall
12:20
Lunch Break (Self organized)
Lunch Break (Self organized)
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
Daniel Jafferis - Putting de Sitter spacetime inside a black hole
Daniel Jafferis - Putting de Sitter spacetime inside a black hole
14:00 - 14:40
Room: 340 West Hall
14:40
Chintan Patel - Matrix theory from Holography
Chintan Patel - Matrix theory from Holography
14:40 - 15:20
Room: 340 West Hall
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00
Room: 337 West Hall
16:00
Edward Witten - Analytic Continuation of Planar Diagram Theories as a Function of N
Edward Witten - Analytic Continuation of Planar Diagram Theories as a Function of N
16:00 - 16:40
Room: 340 West Hall
16:40
DISCUSSION
DISCUSSION
16:40 - 17:40
Room: 340 West Hall
Monday, 12 October 2026
09:00
Igor Klebanov - Landau-Ginzburg Description of Some Minimal Conformal Models
Igor Klebanov - Landau-Ginzburg Description of Some Minimal Conformal Models
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
09:40
Luca Iliesiu - Proving the OSV conjecture to all orders in the string coupling
Luca Iliesiu - Proving the OSV conjecture to all orders in the string coupling
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
Room: North Atrium, Palmer Commons
11:00
Robert Wald - Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions
Robert Wald - Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
11:40
Daine Danielson - Measuring the Acceleration-Dependent Temperature of the Minkowski Vacuum
Daine Danielson - Measuring the Acceleration-Dependent Temperature of the Minkowski Vacuum
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
12:20
Lunch Break (self organized)
Lunch Break (self organized)
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
Raphael Bousso - Lorentzian Quantum Gravity
Raphael Bousso - Lorentzian Quantum Gravity
14:00 - 14:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
14:40
Netta Engelhardt - A Quantum Singularity Theorem for the Evaporating Black Hole
Netta Engelhardt - A Quantum Singularity Theorem for the Evaporating Black Hole
14:40 - 15:20
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00
Room: North Atrium, Palmer Commons
16:00
Yasunori Nomura - Quantum Gravity in a Universe Without an Outside
Yasunori Nomura - Quantum Gravity in a Universe Without an Outside
16:00 - 16:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
16:40
Gong Show - (Flores, Jayaprakash, Marini, Rozenberg, Srivastava)
Gong Show - (Flores, Jayaprakash, Marini, Rozenberg, Srivastava)
16:40 - 17:30
Room: 340 West Hall and Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
1) Sao Leija Flores - Recovering Hawking Temperature and Black-Hole Entropy from Maximally Symmetric Horizon Data 2) Sabarenath Jayaprakash - How universal are giant graviton expansions? 3) Tommaso Marini - 3D near-de Sitter gravity and the soft mode of DSSYK 4) Liza Rozenberg - Measurements in a closed universe 5) Manu Srivastava - Bulk edge modes encode boundary hydro modes
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
09:00
Anatoly Dymarsky - A solvable model of 3d quantum gravity
Anatoly Dymarsky - A solvable model of 3d quantum gravity
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
09:40
David Kutasov - Interpolating between single and double trace TT by moving LST into the bulk
David Kutasov - Interpolating between single and double trace TT by moving LST into the bulk
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
Room: North Atrium, Palmer Commons
11:00
Daniel Harlow - A holographic landscape puzzle
Daniel Harlow - A holographic landscape puzzle
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
11:40
Jeevan Chandra - 3D de Sitter from complex Virasoro TQFT: Observers and knots
Jeevan Chandra - 3D de Sitter from complex Virasoro TQFT: Observers and knots
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
12:20
Lunch Break (self organized)
Lunch Break (self organized)
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
Leonard Susskind - A Conversation With Edward, Juan and Gemini
Leonard Susskind - A Conversation With Edward, Juan and Gemini
14:00 - 14:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
14:40
Sunil Sake - Holography with Conformal boundary conditions
Sunil Sake - Holography with Conformal boundary conditions
14:40 - 15:20
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00
Room: North Atrium, Palmer Commons
16:00
Victor Ivo - Renormalization in Liouville Gravity and Stochastic Inflation
Victor Ivo - Renormalization in Liouville Gravity and Stochastic Inflation
16:00 - 16:40
Room: Forum Hall (4th Floor), Palmer Commons