UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

A Newton Institute Workshop

14-17 December

Timetable:

Tuesday 14 December
09:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-11:00 Turok, N (CMS)

Model of a big crunch/big bang transition

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11:30-12:30 Schuetzhold, R (TU Dresden)

Black hole analogues and the universality of the Hawking effect

12.30-13.30 Lunch

15.00-15.30 Tea

16:30-17:30 Unruh, B (British Columbia)

Bohr, Penrose and Hawking  More info

Wednesday 15 December
10:00-11:00 't Hooft, G (Utrecht)
Information loss, determinism and quantum mechanics  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11:30-12:30 Penrose, R (Oxford)

Limits of quantum mechanics from general relativity: a clash of
principles  More info

12.30-13.30 Lunch

15.00-15.30 Tea

16:00-17:00 Loll, R (Utrecht)

Universe from sub-Planckian bits

17:00 INI Christmas Reception

Thursday 16 December
10:00-11:00 Gottesman, D (Perimeter Institute)
Black hole evaporation, unitarity and final state projection  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11:30-12:30 Galfard, C (CMS)

The path integral approach to the black hole information problem  More info

12.30-13.30 Lunch

15.00-15.30 Tea

16:30-17:30 Terno, D (Perimeter Institute)

When entanglement met black hole...  More info

17.30-18.30 Markopoulou, F (Perimeter Institute)

Quantum information theory and the low energy problem of quantum
gravity

20.00 Conference Dinner at Peterhouse (Upper Hall)

Friday 17 December
10:00-11:00 Lloyd, S (MIT)
Quantum gravity and quantum computation  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11:30-11:50 Plenio, M (Imperial College)

Entanglement and area

11:50-12:10 Smolin, J (IBM )

Locked information and the black hole information loss problem  More info

12.10-12.30 Bennett, C (IBM)

Black holes, simulated time travel and the scalability of complexity

13:00-13.30 Lunch


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