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| Tuesday, June 27 | |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Christian Wüthrich | |
| 14:20–14:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 14:30–15:25 | Joshua Rosaler (RWTH Aachen University) |
| Limits of Bronstein’s cube: Mapping the inter–model reductions of modern physics in the search for quantum gravity |
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| Commentator: Augustin Baas (University of Geneva) | |
| 15:30–16:25 | Karen Crowther (University of Geneva) |
| Understanding the emergence of spacetime from quantum gravity | |
| Commentator: Joshua Norton (American University of Beirut) | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00–18:15 | Eleanor Knox (King’s College London) |
| Spacetime functionalism and noncommutative gravity | |
| 18:30–20:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday, June 28 | |
| 08:00–09:00 | Breakfast |
| Chair: Baptiste Le Bihan | |
| 09:00–09:55 | Richard Healey (University of Arizona) |
| The measurement problem for emergent spacetime in loop quantum gravity | |
| Commentator: Vincent Lam (University of Geneva) | |
| 10:00–10:55 | Daniel Sudarsky (National Autonomous University of Mexico) |
| On the recovery of an effective classical space–time from the quantum gravity realm | |
| Commentator: Suddhasattwa Brahma (Fudan University) | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:45 | Karim Thébault (University of Bristol) |
| Cosmic singularity resolution via quantum evolution | |
| 12:45–14:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Vincent Lam | |
| 14:30–15:25 | Tiziana Vistarini (University of Colorado Boulder) |
| Modality after quantum gravity | |
| Commentator: Keizo Matsubara (University of Illinois at Chicago) | |
| 15:30–16:25 | Antonio Vassallo (University of Warsaw) |
| Grounding as metaphysical causation in spacetime physics | |
| Commentator: Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford) | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00–18:15 | Al Wilson (University of Birmingham) |
| How does spacetime emerge in quantum gravity? | |
| 18:30–20:00 | Dinner |
| Thursday, June 29 | |
| 08:00–09:00 | Breakfast |
| Chair: John Dougherty | |
| 09:00–09:55 | Casey D. McCoy (University of Edinburgh) |
| On a quantum–gravity–concerning heuristic viewpoint | |
| Commentator: Niels Linnemann (University of Geneva) | |
| 10:00–10:55 | Mark Shumelda (University of Toronto) |
| A tale of two Machs: Relationalism in quantum gravity | |
| Commentator: James Read (University of Oxford) | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:45 | Daniele Oriti (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) |
| An emergent universe without fundamental space and time | |
| 12:45–14:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Keizo Matsubara | |
| 14:30–15:25 | Tushar Menon (University of Oxford) |
| Rebuilding Neurath’s boat planck by planck: Algebraic spacetime functionalism and the ontology of spacetime in quantum gravity |
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| Commentator: John Dougherty (University of Illinois at Chicago) | |
| 15:30–16:25 | Simon Friederich (University of Groningen) |
| The asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity: A methodological appraisal | |
| Commentator: Kian Salimkhani (University of Bonn) | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00–18:15 | Richard Dawid (Stockholm University) |
| Why string theory is philosophically interesting | |
| 18:30–20:00 | Conference dinner |
| Friday, June 30 | |
| 08:00–09:00 | Breakfast |
| Chair: Nick Huggett | |
| 09:00–09:55 | Ward Struyve (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) |
| Must space–time be singular? | |
| Commentator: Donald C. Salisbury (Austin College) | |
| 10:00–10:55 | Juliusz Doboszewski (Jagiellonian University) |
| Merging, splitting and tunnelling: a comment on quantum black holes | |
| Commentator: Henrique Gomes (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:45 | Prize winner: Suddhasattwa Brahma (Fudan University) |
| Emergence of time in loop quantum gravity | |
| 12:45–13:00 | Closing remarks |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch |
This meeting is generously generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
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