Name: FAU² Workshop: Quantum Gravity Meets Quantum Information – Foundations, Frameworks and Frontiers
Start: 2026-07-07T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-09T23:00:00+02:00
Location: ECAP Laboratory Building

Monday, 6 July 2026
Tuesday, 7 July 2026

10:00 Registration

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 0: Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
11:00 - 12:30
12:30 1 Tue: Session 1 Tue Chair: Kristina Giesel
Session 1 Tue Chair: Kristina Giesel
12:30 - 14:30
Contributions

12:30 Local Operations and Field Mediated Entanglement without a Local Tensor Product Structure (online) - Flaminia Giacomini (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

13:10 When Born Probabilities Become Quantum Observables (online) - Caslav Brukner

13:50 Quantum Reference Fields Transformations in Linearized Quantum Gravity - Lin-Qing Chen (IQOQI-Vienna)
14:30 Coffee break

14:30 - 15:00
15:00 3 Tue: Session 2 Tue Chair: Muxin Han
Session 2 Tue Chair: Muxin Han
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 Mutual Information Across QRF Perspectives - Viktoria Kabel

15:40 Classical Gravity Meets Classical Information - Eugenio Bianchi (Penn State)

16:20 Relational observables and quantum reference frames - Kasia Rejzner
17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 17:30
17:30 3 Tue: 3 Tue Chair: Franceco Fazzini
3 Tue Chair: Franceco Fazzini
17:30 - 19:30
Contributions

17:30 Covariant quantization of perturbative gravitational null rays - Josh Kirklin (Perimeter Institute)

18:10 Reduced phase space quantisation and quantum reference frames - Thomas Thiemann (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

18:50 Quantum Reference Frames and Relational Entanglement Entropy - Francesco Sartini (OIST)
19:30 Final Discussion with all speakers of the day: Chair: Kristina Giesel
Chair: Kristina Giesel
19:30 - 20:30

20:30 Poster Session: welcome get together with drinks and snacks

20:30 - 23:00
Wednesday, 8 July 2026

11:00 0: Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 9 Thu: Session 4 Wed Chair: Josh Kirklin
Session 4 Wed Chair: Josh Kirklin
12:00 - 14:20
Contributions

12:00 Rethinking coarse graining relationally in quantum gravity (online) - Renata Ferrero

12:40 Panel: Bridging Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information: Lin-Qing Chen, Philipp Höhn, Wolfgang Wieland Chair: Fabio Mele

13:40 Tractatus Quanticus (online) - Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University)
14:20 Coffee break

14:20 - 14:50
14:50 9 Thu: 5 Wed Chair: Viktoria Kabel
5 Wed Chair: Viktoria Kabel
14:50 - 16:50
Contributions

14:50 Localised Quantum Reference Fields - Fabio Mele (LSU)

15:30 Reduced Quantum-Reference-Frame Channels for Open Quantum Systems - Paolo Luppi (University of Milan)

16:10 Physical projector and spectrum of kinematical operators - Matteo Bruno (Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT))
16:50 Coffee break

16:50 - 17:20
17:20 8 Thu: 6 Wed Kasia Reijzner
6 Wed Kasia Reijzner
17:20 - 19:20
Contributions

17:20 The large-scale structures of entanglement (online) - Alexander Stottmeister

18:00 Imprints of different descriptions of (quantum) gravity on gravitational decoherence models (online) - Max Joseph Fahn (University of Bologna and INFN Bologna)

18:40 Entangling Interactions and the Meaning of Quantumness (online) - Eduardo Martin-Martinez (University of Waterloo)
19:20 Final Discussion with all speakers of the day: Chair Muxin Han
Chair Muxin Han
19:20 - 20:00

20:00 Workshop Dinner Barbecue

20:00 - 22:45
Thursday, 9 July 2026

11:00 0: Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 8 Thu: 7 Thu Chair: Wolfgang Wieland
7 Thu Chair: Wolfgang Wieland
11:30 - 13:50
Contributions

11:30 Quantum Reference Frames for Quantum Gravity: The Relational Gravitational Path Integral (online)) - Luca Marchetti (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

12:10 Panel: Bridging Philosophy of Science and Quantum Foundations: Gemma De les Coves, Stephan Hartmann, Daniele Oriti Chair: Eugenio Bianchi

13:10 The Geometry of the Guiding Center: Vielbein Phase Space, Curvature Moment Maps, and the Spin-GMP Algebra - Yichen Hu (Florida Atlantic University)
13:50 Coffee break

13:50 - 14:20
14:20 8 Thu: 8 Thu Chair: Thomas Thiemann
8 Thu Chair: Thomas Thiemann
14:20 - 16:20
Contributions

14:20 Effective continuum physics from quantum gravity - Daniele Oriti (Dept Fisica Teorica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

15:00 Coarse-graining & dynamics of elementary blocks in canonical LQG - Mehdi Assanioussi

15:40 Classical Overlap and Area-Type Scaling from Symplectic Reduction - Varun Kushwaha (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
16:20 Coffee break

16:20 - 16:50
16:50 9 Thu: 9 Thu Chair: Mehdi Assanioussi
9 Thu Chair: Mehdi Assanioussi
16:50 - 18:50
Contributions

16:50 Quantum effects on local observers in an exactly solvable model of quantum gravity (online) - Bruno Torres (Ghent University)

17:30 A loop quantization of the marginally bound Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi dust model - Luca Cafaro (University of Warsaw)

18:10 Parametrization of the primordial power spectrum in Loop Quantum Cosmology (online) - Antonio Vicente-Becerril (IEM-CSIC (Madrid))
18:50 Final Discussion with all speakers of the day: Chair Francesco Fazzini
Chair Francesco Fazzini
18:50 - 19:50

19:50 Closing remarks: Closing remarks
Closing remarks
19:50 - 20:10

20:45 0: Dinner Kitzmann Bräuschänke (https://braeuschaenke.de)
Dinner Kitzmann Bräuschänke (https://braeuschaenke.de)
20:45 - 23:00