ESI Programme and Workshop "Quantum Physics and Gravity"

• Aim of the workshop
• Directory with slides of some talks
• Program of the first week (May 29 - June 2)
• Program of the second week (June 5 - 9)
• Program of the workshop week (June 12 - 16)
• Program of the fourth week (June 19 - 23)
• Program of the fifth week (June 26 - 30)
• ESI preprints and post-workshop info
• Confirmed participants
• Useful links
• Contact organizers

Aim of the workshop

Quantum Physics and Gravity

Quantum mechanics and gravity are two cornerstones of physics. Nevertheless, our understanding of their interplay remains limited, and their unification is expected to imply profound modifications of our understanding of physics.

The ESI Thematic Programme Quantum Physics and Gravity aims to bridge the gap between communities and to bring together leading researchers from different fields that work on classical and quantum aspects of gravitational physics, including experts from quantum information, mathematical relativity and quantum gravity.

The goal is to discuss the conceptual challenges, latest developments and new perspectives in this field. Besides outstanding theoretical problems, many of which are associated with black holes, numerical relativity and quantum gravity, there are numerous phenomenological and experimental challenges, such as determining the nature of dark matter and dark energy, or obtaining experimental bounds on quantum gravity models.

Schedule of Week 1 (May 29 - June 2)

Schedule of Week 1 as PDF

Schedule of Week 1 as table:

All talks and announcements take place in the ESI Boltzmann lecture hall, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna (with the exception of items in turquoise color).

Schedule of Week 2 (June 5 - June 9)

Schedule of Week 2 as PDF

Schedule of Week 2 as table:

Note that Moday, June 5, is a holiday and ESI (as well as most shops) will be closed

All talks and announcements take place in the ESI Boltzmann lecture hall, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna (with the exception of items in turquoise color).

Schedule of COST Miniworkshop "Noncommutative Geometry and Gravity" on Thursday and Friday

Schedule of Workshop Week (June 12 - June 16)

Schedule of Week 3 as table:

On Tuesday, June 13, there will be a conference dinner starting at 18:15 (Heurigen Hengl-Hasel­brunner) (public transport and PDF map with tramway 38 and with tramway 37)

Note that Thursday, June 15, is a holiday and ESI (as well as most shops) will be closed
There is an optional hiking tour on Thursday to Schneeberg

On Friday, June 16, there will be a farewell dinner starting around 18:15 in the Schweizerhaus
Meeting is at 17:30 in front of ESI

All talks and announcements take place in the ESI Boltzmann lecture hall, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna (with the exception of items in turquoise color).

Schedule of Week 4 (June 19 - June 23)

Schedule of Week 4 as table:

All talks and announcements take place in the ESI Boltzmann lecture hall, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna (with the exception of items in turquoise color).

Schedule of Week 5 (June 26 - June 30)

All talks and announcements take place in the ESI Boltzmann lecture hall, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna unless mentioned otheriwse.

Tuesday, June 27, 12:15: lunch talk at TU Wien by Raphaela Wutte
Friday, June 30, 11:30: Mark Kasevich

Main focus in fifth week is on experimental tests of classical and quantum gravity

ESI preprints and post-workshop info

The organizers thank all the participants for contributing to a wonderful workshop with their talks, questions, discussions, ideas and anecdotes. We hope to see you back at ESI in the future.

If you have not sent the slides of your talk to Daniel yet please do so.

Guidelines for submissions to the ESI preprint series
(quoted from ESI webpage)

The ESI kindly asks you to send information about preprints/publications where your stay at the institute is acknowledged to secr@esi.ac.at with a CC to director@esi.ac.at as follows:

Subject: ESI Research documentation / Quantum Physics and Gravity 2017

Email content: Author(s) / title / arXiv number or journal reference / Quantum Physics and Gravity 2017

Confirmed participants

• Non-local participants
• COST participants
• Local participants
• Organizers

Below is a table with non-local confirmed participants in alphabetical order and their durations of stay:

Below is a table with confirmed participants of the COST meeting embedded in the ESI program (again in alphabetical order) and their durations of stay:

Some local participants are listed below in alphabetical order:

Below is a table of the presence of the organizers

Useful links

Contact the organizers by e-mail