Informational Architecture of Spacetime Workshop

(This workshop was originally scheduled for September 2021 but has been postponed to May 30 - June 3, 2022, due to the pandemic.)

The emerging information paradigm is leading to deep new insights into the structure of spacetime. Many results, in various approaches, suggest that its large-scale structure can be understood as emerging from quantum correlations of more fundamental degrees of freedom. An intriguing picture arises that portrays the architecture of spacetime as a network of quantum degrees of freedom exchanging information and in which quantum correlations assume the role of the "glue" that holds spacetime together. These insights not only hint at a universal emergence mechanism for spacetime structures, but also offer new perspectives on various established topics, including black holes, the dynamics of spacetime, spacetime thermodynamics, and information processing in spacetime. Drawing from multiple research areas, these developments have led to prolific cross-fertilizations and a novel multidisciplinary research community.

The Informational Architecture of Spacetime Workshop brings together leading experts at the interface of quantum gravity, quantum information theory, quantum many-body physics and quantum foundations to discuss contemporary research on understanding spacetime from an informational perspective. The following four main topics will be broadly covered during the meeting:

  • Black Holes, Subsystems and Information
  • Entanglement, Complexity and Geometry
  • Quantum Many-Body Techniques in Quantum Gravity
  • Quantum Information, Foundations and Spacetime

​Talks are by invitation only.

Dates

May 30, 2022 (Monday, all day) - June 3, 2022 (Friday, all day)

Location

On account of the remnants of the covid-19 pandemic and ongoing non-trivialities for foreigners to enter Japan, we have decided to move the workshop fully online. Talks will be made available by livestream. Zoom links will be provided after registration.

There will also be virtual coffee breaks and social gatherings on Remo, as well as Slack channels for discussions.

 

Registration

Registration is now closed (deadline was April 11th, 2022).

Invited Speakers

  • Alice Bernamonti (Florence University)
  • Eugenio Bianchi (Penn State University)
  • Sylvain Carrozza (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
  • Venkatesa Chandrasekaran (IAS Princeton)
  • Bin Chen (Peking University)
  • Giulio Chiribella (University of Hong Kong, University of Oxford)
  • Marios Christodoulou (IQOQI Vienna)
  • Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics Garching)
  • Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute)
  • Lucas Hackl (University of Melbourne)
  • Masahiro Hotta (Tohoku University)
  • Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)
  • Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland)
  • Achim Kempf (University of Waterloo)
  • Markus Müller (IQOQI Vienna)
  • Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute)
  • Jonathan Oppenheim (University College London)
  • Daniele Oriti (Ludwig-Maximilians University)
  • Alejandro Perez (CPT Marseille)
  • Malcolm Perry (University of Cambridge)
  • Sumati Surya (RRI Bengaluru)
  • Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto University)
  • Tomonori Ugajin (Kyoto University)
  • Aron Wall (University of Cambridge)

There will also be talks by Stefan Eccles, Josh Kirklin, Isha Kotecha & Fabio Mele (OIST)

Invited Panelists

  • Aidan Chatwin-Davies (University of British Columbia)
  • Lin-Qing Chen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  • Marc Geiller (Lyon, École Normale Supérieure)
  • Steve Giddings (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Henrique Gomes (University of Cambridge)
  • Felix Haehl (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  • Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University)
  • Antony Speranza (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  • Manus Visser (University of Geneva)
  • Wolfgang Wieland (IQOQI, Vienna)

 

Organizers

Stefan Eccles, Philipp Höhn, Josh Kirklin, Isha Kotecha, Fabio Mele (OIST, Qubits and Spacetime Unit)