A summary of the conference schedule is listed below. View a detailed copy of the conference schedule, including abstracts, here.
Monday, June 12
| 9:30 – 10 am | Coffee break | |
| 10 – 11 am | Robert Brandenberger (McGill University), “Emergent space and its possible observational signatures” | |
| 11 – 12 pm | Daniele Oriti (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics – Albert Einstein Institute), “Cosmology as quantum gravity hydrodynamics: emergent universe without fundamental space and time” | |
| 12 – 1 pm | Panel discussion | |
| 1 – 2 pm | Lunch | |
| 2 – 3 pm | Francesca Vidotto (Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University), “Quanta of spacetime in a non-singular universe” | |
| 3 – 3:30 pm | Coffee break | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Henrique Gomes (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), “Timeless cosmology with records” | |
| 4:30 – 5:30 pm | Panel discussion |
Tuesday, June 13
| 9:30 – 10 am | Coffee break | |
| 10 – 11 am | Simon Saunders (University of Oxford), “What is space-time geometry? — the non-relativistic case” | |
| 11 – 12 pm | Tessa Baker (University of Oxford), “Agnostic Tests of Gravity” | |
| 12 – 1 pm | Panel discussion | |
| 1 – 2 pm | Lunch | |
| 2 – 3 pm | Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh), “Three problems about multi-scale modelling in contemporary cosmology” | |
| 3 – 3:30 pm | Coffee break | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Karen Crowther (University of Geneva), “Emergence, Reduction, and Correspondence in the Context of Quantum Gravity” | |
| 4:30 – 5:30 pm | Panel discussion |
Wednesday, June 14
| 9:30 – 10 am | Coffee break | |
| 10 – 11 am | Nick Huggett (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Cosmological Aspects of Quantum Gravity” | |
| 11 – 12 pm | Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), “Reflections on Spacetime” | |
| 12 – 1 pm | Panel discussion | |
| 1 – 2 pm | Lunch | |
| 2 – 3 pm | Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute), “Galaxy rotation curves: missing matter, or missing physics?” | |
| 3 – 3:30 pm | Coffee break | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Panel discussion |
Pictured above: Original artwork by Kaća Bradonjić. Part of the “Projections” series, inspired by Carlo Rovelli, “Space and Time (or not?) in Loop Quantum Gravity”.