Schedule

Tuesday, June 21

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
 8:30 - 9:00 amRegistration Reception
 9:00 - 9:30 am
Lenny Susskind
Stanford University
Opening Remarks
Bob Room
 9:30 - 10:20 am
Alex Vilenkin
Tufts University
Holographic multiverse and the measure problemBob Room
 10:20 - 11:00 am
Coffee Break Bistro
 11:00 - 11:50 am
Hong Liu
MIT
Inside the horizon with holographic Wilsonian RGBob Room
 11:50 am - 12:25 pm

Adam Brown
Princeton University

Bubbles of nothing and the big bangBob Room
 12:25 - 3:00 pmLunch Bistro
 3:00 - 3:50 pmAlex Maloney
McGill University
A de Sitter Farey TailBob Room
 3:50 - 4:25 pmDaniel Park
MIT
Lessons on Quantum Supergravity from Six-DimensionsBob Room
 4:25 - 5:00 pm
Coffee Break
 Bistro
 5:00 - 5:50 pmJuan Maldacena
IAS
The semiclassical wavefunction of the universe near de Sitter spaceBob Room

Wednesday, June 22

 TimeSpeaker or Topic
TopicLocation
 9:00 - 9:50 amErik Verlinde
University of Amsterdam
The Hidden Phase Space of our UniverseBob Room
 9:50 - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
 Bistro
 10:30 - 11:20 am
Ben Freivogel
UC, Berkeley
Predictions from geometric cutoffs in Eternal InflationBob Room
 11:20 - 11:55 amStefan Leichenauer
UC, Berkeley
Eternal inflation prediccts that time will endBob Room
 11:55  - 12:30 pm Alejandra Castro
McGill University
The partition function of quantum de SitterBob Room
 12:30 - 3:00 pm
Lunch
 Bistro
 3:00 - 3:50 pm

Herman Verlinde
Princeton University

Fuzzy Twistors and Emergent GravityBob Room
 3:50 - 4:25 pmI Sheng Yang
Columbia University
Exploring the Landscape with Classical TransitionsBob Room
 4:25 - 5:00 pm
John Preskill
Caltech
Simulating the universe with a quantum computerBob Room
 5:00 - 5:15 pmGroup Photo
 Bob Room
 5:15 pmBBQ Bistro

Thursday, June 23

 TimeSpeakerTopicLocation
 9:00 - 9:50 amJoe Polchinski
UCSB
Bulk Physics from CFTBob Room
 9:50 - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
 Bistro
 10:30 - 11:20 am
Eva Silverstein
Stanford University
Uplifting AdS/CFT to CosmologyBob Room
 11:20 - 11:55 amBart Horn
Stanford University
Micromanaging and Accounting in de Sitter HolographyBob Room
 11:55 am - 12:30 pm
Xi Dong
Stanford University
An Effective Field Theory Dual of FRW SpacetimeBob Room
 12:30 - 3:00 pmLunch
 Bistro
 3:00 - 3:35 pmPatrick Hayden
McGill University
On the fast scrambling conjectureBob Room
 3:35 - 4:10 pmDouglas Stanford
Stanford University
 Dictionaries and Wavefunctions in ds/CFT and Ads/CFTBob Room
 4:10 - 4:45 pmDaniel Harlow
Stanford University
Liouville theory and Holographic CosmologyBob Room
 4:45 - 5:10 pmCoffee Break
 Bistro
 5:10 - 6:00 pmFrederik Denef
Harvard University
Complexity in Fundamental PhysicsBob Room

Friday, June 24

  Time

SpeakerTopicLocation
 9:00 - 9:50 amMark van Raamsdonk
UBC
A toy model of quantum gravity in cosmological spacetimesBob Room
 9:50 - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
 Bistro
 10:30 - 11:20 am
Willy Fischler
University of Texas
Challenges in CosmologyBob Room
 11:20 - 11:55 amNeil Turok
Perimeter Institute
A Canonical Measure for InflationBob Room
 11:55 am - 12:30 pm
Yasuhiro Sekino
Okayam Institute for Quantum Physics
Correlation functions in FRW/CFT dualityBob Room
 12:30 - 3:00 pmLunch 
Bistro
 3:00 - 3:50 pmSimeon Hellerman
IPMU
Bubble PopperBob Room
 3:50 - 4:40 pmLenny Susskind
Stanford University
Concluding Remarks Bob Room
 4:40 - 6:00 pm
Wine and Cheese Bistro

 

 
 
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