De Sitter spacetime is a good approximation to the very early and late epochs of our universe. Quantum features of de Sitter have been under the spotlight for the last 50 years since the seminal work of Gibbons and Hawking. However, there still is not a satisfactory quantum gravity description of de Sitter space. In this workshop we aim to bring together different approaches to quantum gravity for de Sitter spacetime that have gained an increasing amount of attention in the past few years.
Invited speakers include:
- Lars Aalsma (Arizona State University)
- Dionysios Anninos (King’s College London)
- Tarek Anous (Queen Mary University of London)
- Gonçalo Araújo Regado (University of Cambridge)
- Alejandra Castro (University of Cambridge)
- Damian Galante (King’s College London)
- César Gómez (IFT-UAM CSIC)
- Thomas Hertog (KU Leuven)
- Beatrix Mühlmann (McGill’s University)
- Guilherme Pimentel (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Suvrat Raju (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research)
- Thomas van Riet (KU Leuven)
- Kamran Salehi Vaziri (University of Amsterdam)
- Jan Pieter van der Schaar (University of Amsterdam)
- Gizem Sengor (Bogazici University)
- Edgar Shaghoulian (UC Santa Barbara)
- Eva Silverstein (Stanford University)
- Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton)
- Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)
- Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)
- Zimo Sun (Princeton University)
- Yusuke Taki (Kyoto University)
- Marija Tomašević (Ecole Polytechnique Théorique)
- Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam)
*to be confirmed
Due to limited capacity the workshop is invitation only. Individuals with a DAMTP/CTC affiliation are also welcome if space allows, but we ask you to register by the 27th of March so we have an estimate of numbers.
We are extremely thankful for the funding awarded by the Gravity Theory Trust (https://sites.google.com/view/gravity-theory-trust) without which this conference would not be possible. We are also very thankful for the funding provided by the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
