Aug. 15-19 2022, Vancouver, Canada

Quantum Mechanics & Gravity: Marrying Theory & Experiment

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Day 1 - Aug. 15

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William G. Unruh - Measurement of acceleration temperature in a BEC
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Phillip Stamp - A CWL Primer
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Clifford Cheung - Hidden Structures in Gravitational Scattering
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Discussion 1
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Abhay Ashtekar - Gravity, Geometry, and the Quantum
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Steven B. Giddings - A “quantum-first” approach to gravity and black holes
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John F. Donoghue - Quantum General Relativity at Low Curvature
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Steve Carlip - From discrete causal sets to a spacetime continuum
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Discussion 2
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Day 2 - Aug 16

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K. Birgitta Whaley - Using quantum states of trapped nanoparticles to probe the effect of gravity on quantum mechanics of large systems
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Michael Wright - The Archive For Mathematical Sciences (aka The Michael Wright Collection) 1973- 2022 Some recollections and insights from the last 50 years
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Anatoly Svidzinsky - Unruh, Cherenkov and Hawking radiation from a negative frequency perspective and generation of entangled photon pairs
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Renate Loll - Quantum Gravity: Getting There
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Discussion 1
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Alexander Vilenkin - Quantum cosmology and the beginning of the universe
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Gary Hinshaw - Taking the Measure of the Universe
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Discussion 2 - Quantum Cosmology
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Day 3 - Keynote Day - Aug 17

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Viatcheslav Mukhanov - How predictive are cosmological theories
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Suzanne T. Staggs - Primordial Gravitational Waves and the Cosmic Microwave Background
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Peter Galison - Imaging the Black Hole: The Past Propelling Us into the Future
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P.J.E. Peebles - How will the next big advance in gravity physics be found?
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Baron Martin Rees - Cosmology: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we may never know
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Sir Roger Penrose - Story of the Universe
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Fireside Chat with QGS Founders
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Remarks - Kip S. Thorne, P.J.E. Peebles and others
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Markus Aspelmeyer - Solving the gravity-quantum dilemma in experiments
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Kip S. Thorne - Is Backward Time Travel Compatible with Quantum Physics?
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Public Discussion
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Day 4 - Aug. 18

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Robert M. Wald - Quantum Superpositions of Massive Bodies and Gravitationally Mediated Entanglement
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Daniel Carney - Comments on graviton detection
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Yanbei Chen - Towards Observational Signatures of Quantum Gravity
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Jordan Wilson-Gerow - Low energy signatures of a Correlated Worldline theory of quantum gravity
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Discussion 1
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Hendrik Ulbricht - Testing quantum mechanics and gravity by levitated mechanical systems
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Rana Adhikari - Opportunities in Gravitational Experiments
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Mark A. Kasevich - Observation of a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect and its implications for quantum superpositions of Newtonian gravitational fields
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General Discussion
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