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

FAU² Workshop: Quantum Gravity Meets Quantum Information – Foundations, Frameworks and Frontiers

from Tuesday, July 7, 2026 (12:00 AM) to Thursday, July 9, 2026 (11:00 PM)

Monday, July 6, 2026
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

10:00 AM Registration

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM 0: Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM 1 Tue: Session 1 Tue Chair: Kristina Giesel
Session 1 Tue Chair: Kristina Giesel
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

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

1:10 PM When Born Probabilities Become Quantum Observables (online) - Caslav Brukner

1:50 PM Quantum Reference Fields Transformations in Linearized Quantum Gravity - Lin-Qing Chen (IQOQI-Vienna)
2:30 PM Coffee break

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM 3 Tue: Session 2 Tue Chair: Muxin Han
Session 2 Tue Chair: Muxin Han
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Mutual Information Across QRF Perspectives - Viktoria Kabel

3:40 PM Classical Gravity Meets Classical Information - Eugenio Bianchi (Penn State)

4:20 PM Relational observables and quantum reference frames - Kasia Rejzner
5:00 PM Coffee break

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:30 PM 3 Tue: 3 Tue Chair: Franceco Fazzini
3 Tue Chair: Franceco Fazzini
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

5:30 PM Covariant quantization of perturbative gravitational null rays - Josh Kirklin (Perimeter Institute)

6:10 PM Reduced phase space quantisation and quantum reference frames - Thomas Thiemann (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

6:50 PM Quantum Reference Frames and Relational Entanglement Entropy - Francesco Sartini (OIST)
7:30 PM Final Discussion with all speakers of the day: Chair: Kristina Giesel
Chair: Kristina Giesel
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

8:30 PM Poster Session: welcome get together with drinks and snacks

8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

11:00 AM 0: Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM 9 Thu: Session 4 Wed Chair: Josh Kirklin
Session 4 Wed Chair: Josh Kirklin
12:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

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

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

1:40 PM Tractatus Quanticus (online) - Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University)
2:20 PM Coffee break

2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM 9 Thu: 5 Wed Chair: Viktoria Kabel
5 Wed Chair: Viktoria Kabel
2:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

2:50 PM Localised Quantum Reference Fields - Fabio Mele (LSU)

3:30 PM Reduced Quantum-Reference-Frame Channels for Open Quantum Systems - Paolo Luppi (University of Milan)

4:10 PM Physical projector and spectrum of kinematical operators - Matteo Bruno (Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT))
4:50 PM Coffee break

4:50 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM 8 Thu: 6 Wed Kasia Reijzner
6 Wed Kasia Reijzner
5:20 PM - 7:20 PM
Contributions

5:20 PM The large-scale structures of entanglement (online) - Alexander Stottmeister

6:00 PM Imprints of different descriptions of (quantum) gravity on gravitational decoherence models (online) - Max Joseph Fahn (University of Bologna and INFN Bologna)

6:40 PM Entangling Interactions and the Meaning of Quantumness (online) - Eduardo Martin-Martinez (University of Waterloo)
7:20 PM Final Discussion with all speakers of the day: Chair Muxin Han
Chair Muxin Han
7:20 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM Workshop Dinner Barbecue

8:00 PM - 10:45 PM
Thursday, July 9, 2026

11:00 AM 0: Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
Lunch at cafeteria optional (voucher provided)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM 8 Thu: 7 Thu Chair: Wolfgang Wieland
7 Thu Chair: Wolfgang Wieland
11:30 AM - 1:50 PM
Contributions

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

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

1:10 PM The Geometry of the Guiding Center: Vielbein Phase Space, Curvature Moment Maps, and the Spin-GMP Algebra - Yichen Hu (Florida Atlantic University)
1:50 PM Coffee break

1:50 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM 8 Thu: 8 Thu Chair: Thomas Thiemann
8 Thu Chair: Thomas Thiemann
2:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM Effective continuum physics from quantum gravity - Daniele Oriti (Dept Fisica Teorica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

3:00 PM Coarse-graining & dynamics of elementary blocks in canonical LQG - Mehdi Assanioussi

3:40 PM Classical Overlap and Area-Type Scaling from Symplectic Reduction - Varun Kushwaha (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
4:20 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
4:50 PM 9 Thu: 9 Thu Chair: Mehdi Assanioussi
9 Thu Chair: Mehdi Assanioussi
4:50 PM - 6:50 PM
Contributions

4:50 PM Quantum effects on local observers in an exactly solvable model of quantum gravity (online) - Bruno Torres (Ghent University)

5:30 PM A loop quantization of the marginally bound Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi dust model - Luca Cafaro (University of Warsaw)

6:10 PM Parametrization of the primordial power spectrum in Loop Quantum Cosmology (online) - Antonio Vicente-Becerril (IEM-CSIC (Madrid))
6:50 PM Final Discussion with all speakers of the day: Chair Francesco Fazzini
Chair Francesco Fazzini
6:50 PM - 7:50 PM

7:50 PM Closing remarks: Closing remarks
Closing remarks
7:50 PM - 8:10 PM

8:45 PM 0: Dinner Kitzmann Bräuschänke (https://braeuschaenke.de)
Dinner Kitzmann Bräuschänke (https://braeuschaenke.de)
8:45 PM - 11:00 PM

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