Workshop "Gravity, Information and Fundamental Symmetries"

4 Nov 2019, 08:00 → 6 Nov 2019, 23:00 Europe/Berlin

Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching)

Manfred Lindner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik Heidelberg)

Research Area Workshop of the Max Planck Society: 

Gravity, Information and Fundamental Symmetries

Monday 4 November

1 Welcome

2 Aspects, limitations and cracks of the standard model of elementary particles

Speaker: Francesco Vissani

Slides Vissani-sm.pdf

3 Probing PeV scale physics via particle electric dipole moments

Speaker: David DeMille (Yale University)

Slides DeMille_MPQ_2019_Final.pdf

10:45 Coffee + Tea

4 Antimatter under the Microscope - High Precision Comparisons of the Fundamental Properties of Matter/Antimatter Conjugates

Speaker: Stefan Ulmer (RIKEN + CERN)

Slides 2019_MPG_SU_Talk_V3.pdf

5 Precision low-energy physics with muons

Speaker: Martin Fertl (JGU Mainz)

Slides MPI_Fertl_2019_short.pdf

12:45 Lunch

6 Neutrons, Anti-Neutrons and Us

Speaker: Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia University)

Slides Brooijmans-mpi.pdf

7 Interactions of Neutrinos with Matter

Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

Slides gifs19-scholberg.pdf

15:30 Coffee + Tea

8 Neutrino mass measurements

Speaker: Susanne MERTENS (MPP + TUM)

Slides Mertens_MP.pdf

9 Neutrino Physics with Accelerators

Speaker: Xianguo Lu (University of Oxford)

Slides xlu_20191004_Garching.pdf

10 Entanglement structure for holography

Speaker: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)

Slides Hubeny.pdf

11 Discussion

Tuesday 5 November

12 Quantum matter, clocks, and fundamental physics

Speaker: Jun Ye (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Slides MPQ_Clock_fundamental_Ye_presented.pdf

13 Testing Fundamental Physics with Quantum Logic Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions

Speaker: Piet Schmidt (PTB)

Slides 20191105-MPG_Workshop.pdf

10:45 Coffee + Tea

14 Molecular clocks for precision metrology

Speaker: Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia University)

Slides 19FundamentalWorkshopGarching_slides.pdf

15 Quantum Tools to Explore the Universe

Speaker: Ronald Walsworth (Harvard)

Slides MPQ_dark_matter_public.pdf

12:45 Lunch

16 Dark matter and axions

Speaker: Javier Redondo (Zaragoza and MPP)

Slides DMA_Redondo.pdf

17 Axion searches across different mass scales

Speaker: Babette Döbrich (CERN)

Slides munich2019_MPI.pdf

15:30 Coffee + Tea

18 Dark Matter and neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors

Speaker: Teresa Marrodan Undagoitia (MPIK)

Slides Marrodan_Garching_Nov19_v1.pdf

19 Recent dark matter searches with Fermi-LAT

Speaker: Regina Caputo (NASA)

Slides Caputo-Fermi-LAT-DM-MPQ.pdf

20 Discussion

Wednesday 6 November

21 Quantum Gravity and String Theory Landscape

Speaker: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)

Slides vafa.pdf

22 Quantum causal influence

Speaker: Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford University)

Slides quantum_causal_influence_MPIQO2019.pdf

10:45 Coffee + Tea

23 Quantum simulators of gravitational effects

Speaker: Silke Weinfurter (University of Nottingham)

Slides Weinfurtner-MPQ-2019.pdf

24 The black hole information paradox and space-time behind the horizon

Speaker: Kyriakos Papadodimas

Slides FINAL_MPI_Papadodimas_2019.pdf

12:45 Lunch

25 Searching for gravitational waves, ultra-light dark matter, and "fifth" forces with levitated opto-mechanics

Speaker: Andrew Geraci (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)

Slides Geraci_MPQ_Fundamental_Symmetries_Print.pdf

26 Holography, locality and quantum error correction

Speaker: Fernando Pastawski (PsiQuantum)

Slides Holography_locality_and_QEC_-_Gravity,_Information_and_Fundamental_Systems.pdf

15:30 Coffee + Tea

27 Black Hole Information Scrambling and Spacetime Locality

Speaker: Brian Swingle (University of Maryland)

Slides mpq_swingle_nov_6.pdf

28 Entanglement Wedges and AdS/CFT

Speaker: Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto University)

Slides TakayanagiMunich2019.pdf

29 Discussion