Modified Gravity Program

Thursday May 18, 2023

Time (CT) Sessions Speakers
9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Coffee and Refreshments - ICMT Common Area, 2nd-floor ESB
9:50 - 10:00 a.m.
Opening remarks
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
"A New Gravitational Action for the Trace Anomaly" Gregory Gabadadze
11:10 a.m - 12:10 p.m.
"UV/IR mixing, Vacuum Energy Density and Gravitational Entropy" (remote talk) Laurent Freidel
12:10 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
"Our universe at criticality: folding funnels and percolation" Justin Khoury
2:30 - 2:55 p.m.
Coffee Break - ICMT Common Area, 2nd-floor ESB
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
"Explorations of gravity and gauge theory through the spin connection" Tucker Manton
4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
"The final state proposal: Making sense of measurement probabilities & a prescription for computing entropy" (remote talk) Ahmed Almheiri
5:15 - 5:25 p.m. Closing Notes

Friday May 19, 2023

Time (CT) Sessions Speakers
8:45 - 9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Refreshments - ICMT Common Area, 2nd-floor ESB
9:20 - 9:30 a.m.
Opening remarks
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
"Parity-Violation in Gravity: New Constructions and Inflationary Signals" Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski
10:40 - 11:40 a.m.
"Why there are dark matter, dark energy and quantum gravity problems and what we can do about them" Philip Mannheim
11:40 - 1:00 p.m
Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
"Quantum gravity, black holes, and a search for observational tests" (remote talk) Steve Giddings
2:10 - 3:10 p.m.
"Testing gravity in the era of cosmic surveys - where and what should we measure?" Chihway Chang
3:10 - 3:40 p.m.
Coffee Break - ICMT Common Area, 2nd-floor ESB
3:50 - 4:50 p.m.
"Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves: Opportunities and Observations" Geraint Pratten
5:10 - 6:10 p.m. "Quantum gravity and it's observational signatures" (remote talk) Kathryn Zurek
6:10 - 6:20 p.m. Closing Notes
7:00 p.m. Banquet for Speakers and Organizers  - Beckman Institute Atrium Center

Saturday May 20, 2023

Time (CT) Sessions Speakers
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Refreshments - ICMT Common Area, 2nd-floor ESB
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
"Gravitational Wave Probes of Parity Violation" Leah Jenks
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
"The fuzzball resolution of the information paradox" Samir Mathur
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"Horizons are Watching You" Gautam Satishchandran
12:30 p.m. Coffee and Refreshments - ICMT Common Area, 2nd-floor ESB