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Schedule

Monday December 8

 TimeSpeaker or Event Location
 9:00AMRegistration Atrium
 9:30 - 10:00AM

Continental Breakfast

 Black Hole Bistro
 10:00 - 10:50AMDaniele Oriti, PI 
Introduction to Quantum Gravity		 Bob Rm 405 
 10:50 - 11:10AM

Coffee Break

 Black Hole Bistro
 11:10 - 11:50AMLorenzo Sindoni, SISSA, Italy
Emergent gravity: lessons from two models		 Bob Rm 405
 11:50 - 12:30PMEnrique Fernandez-Borja, University of Valencia
Black hole entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity		 Bob Rm 405
 12:30 - 2:00PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 2:00 - 3:00PMMichael Trott, PI 
Introduction to Particle Physics		 Bob Rm 405
 3:00 - 3:40PM

Ethan Thompson, University of Washington
The holographic description of non-relativistic conformal field theories

 Bob Rm 405
 3:40 - 4:00PMCoffee Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 4:40PMYevgeny Kats, Harvard
A Toy Model of Unparticle Physics		 Bob Rm 405
 4:40 - 5:20PMGil Paz, Institute for Advanced Study
Supersymmetric U(1)' Models		 Bob Rm 405
 5:30PMBanquet Reception Opens Black Hole Bistro
 7:00PMBanquet Dinner Black Hole Bistro

Tuesday December 9

 TimeSpeaker or Event Location
 9:30 - 10:00 AMContinental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro
 10:00 - 10:50 AMJonathan Walgate, PI 
Introduction to Quantum Information		 Bob Rm 405 
 10:50 - 11:10 AMCoffee Black Hole Bistro
 11:10 - 11:50 AMNetanel Lindner, Technion-Istael Institute of Technology
A photonic cluster state machine gun		 Bob Rm 405
 11:50 AM - 12:30 PMJon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratories
Surprises in the theory of quantum channel capacity		 Bob Rm 405
 12:30 - 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 2:00 - 3:00 PMClaudia de Rham, Perimeter Institute
Introduction to Cosmology		 Bob Rm 405
 3:00 - 3:40 PMFabian Schmidt, University of Chicago
Structure Formation in Modified Gravity		 Bob Rm 405
 3:40 - 4:00 PMCoffee Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 4:40 PMAdrienne Erickcek, Caltech
Inflationary Origins of the Cosmic Power Asymmetry		 Bob Rm 405
 4:40 - 5:20PMYanwen Shang, University of Toronto
IR modification of gravity and the forbidden mass range of spin-2   particles in De Sitter space		 Bob Rm 405

Wednesday December 10

 TimeSpeaker or EventLocation 
 9:30 - 10:00AMContinental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro
 10:00 - 10:50AM

Yuji Tachikawa, Institute for Advanced Study
Introduction to Strings

 Bob Rm 405 
 10:50 - 11:10AMCoffee Black Hole Bistro
 11:10 - 11:50AMArvind Murugan, Princeton
2+1dimensional gauge gravity duality		 Bob Rm 405
 11:50 - 12:30PMMichael Kiermaier, MIT
On-shell methods in Quantum Field Theory		 Bob Rm 405
 12:30 - 2:00PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 2:00 - 3:00PMKeith Dienes, University of Arizona
Colloquium		 Bob Rm 405
 3:20 - 4:10PMPhilip Goyal, Perimeter Institute 
Introduction to Quantum Foundations		 Bob Rm 405
 4:120 - 4:30PMCoffee Black Hole Bistro
 4:30 - 5:10PMMichael Seevinck, Utrecht University
Deep Hidden Variables		 Bob Rm 405
 5:10 - 5:50PMAnna Gustavsson, Imperial College London
Constrained Quantum Dynamics		 Bob Rm 405
 7:00PMPostdoc night in Waterloo Meet in the Atrium

Thursday December 11

 TimeSpeaker or EventLocation                      
 9:30 - 10:00AMContinental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro
 10:00 - 10:40AMSarah Shandera, Columbia University
Statistics in single field inflation		 Bob Rm 405
 10:40 - 11:20AMAseem Paranjape, TIFR Mumbai
Breakreaction from Averaging in Cosmology		 Bob Rm 405
 11:30AM Depart for IQC Tour, Lunch and Discussion Meet in Atrium
 2:20 - 3:00PMYuji Tachikawa, Institute for Advanced Study
Story of a & c		 Bob Rm 405
 3:00 - 3:40PMGonzalo Torroba, Rutgers University
Four dimensional dynamics of string compactifications		 Bob Rm 405
 3:40 - 4:00PMCoffee Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 4:40PMLouis LeBlond, Texas A&M
Tachyon Mediated Non-Gaussianity		 Bob Rm 405
 4:40 - 5:20PMNabamita Banerjee, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Asymptotic Expansion of the N=4 Dyon Degeneracy		 Bob Rm 405
 7:00PMPub Night Black Hole Bistro

Friday December 12

 TimeSpeaker or EventLocation 
 9:00 - 9:30AMContinental Breakfast Black Hole Bistro
 9:30 - 10:10AMJonathan Engle, Albert Einstein Institute, Germany
LQG spinfoam models: basic ideas and motivations		 Bob Rm 405
 10:10 - 10:50AMRoberto Pereira, Marseille
Loop quantum gravity vertex for spin foam gravity		 Bob Rm 405
 10:50 - 11:10AMCoffee Black Hole Bistro
 11:10 - 11:50PMAlberto Montina, University of Firenze
Does the wave-function concern information or reality		 Bob Rm 405
 11:50 - 12:30PMRoger Colbeck, ETH Zurich
The impossibility of partially local hidden variable models for quantum theory and the relation to cryptography		 Bob Rm 405
 12:30 - 2:00PMLunch  Black Hole Bistro
 2:00 - 2:40PMGiulio Chiribella, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Admissible transformations of quantum networks and their applications in quantum information processing		 Bob Rm 405
 2:40 - 3:40PMClosing Panel Discussion Bob Rm 405
 3:45PMBlack Hole Bistro Black Hole Bistro
 
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