Outreach Event
After a quater century of theoretical and experimental developments, the 1925 paper of Werner Heisenberg formalized the foundationd of what we know today as “quantum mechanics”. To celebrate the centenary of this achievement, the year 2025 has been declared as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. For our conference we are bringing some of the worlds top researchers in the foundations of quantum theory to Regensburg and we use this opportunity to bring them out to you, live at Degginger!
The doors for this night of quantum weirdness will be opened at 19:00. The program will kick off at 20:00 with a public lecture about the history and development of quantum mechanics, followed by a conversation between Prof. Dr. Antonino Marciano and Dr. Shane Farnsworth about the current status of our research. During the conversation you will have the opportunity to ask any question you have about the quantum world.
This event is open for everyone, young and old, who is interested to learn about the history of quantum theory and what the limits of our current understanding the physical world are. Here you have an opportunity to ask all your questions you have ever had about quantum physics to some of the worlds top experts.
In summary:
What: An outreach event on quantum theory.
Where: Degginger, Wahlenstrasse 17
When: 6. October 2025, 19:00
Price: The event is for free, first come first serve.
The stars of the evening:
Prof. Dr. Antonino Marciano
Originally from Italy, Antonino Marciano’ is currently a tenured full professor at the Department of Physics of Fudan University in Shanghai and a member of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). He has been a post-doctoral researcher in the USA, working at Princeton University and Dartmouth College on questions about the beginning of the universe. Throughout his early career as a Ph.D. student at Sapienza University in Rome and as a postdoc at Aix-Marseille University, he worked on different approaches to quantum gravity, which is the quest to find an ultimate theory that combines quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
His current research spans a broad range of fields, from quantum computing and artificial intelligence to material science and the study of the universe.
He is a highly accomplished researcher with over 120 publications in prestigious scientific journals.
Dr. Shane Farnsworth
Originally from Australia, Shane Farnsworth is currently a researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Regensburg, and a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. He studied physics and engineering in Newcastle, Australia before completing his doctoral studies at the Perimeter Institute in Canada. He then worked for 5 years at the Max-Planck both as a postdoc, studying the early universe as well as developing a new kind of geometry that breaks some of the basic assumptions that were thought to be necessary for a geometry to be internally consistent. This extension is an attempt to find better geometric tools for modelling the particles we observe in our universe and dominates his current research. During the pandemic Shane stepped back from research to found the Escaped Sapiens Podcast, which features in depth interviews with people who are working to redefine the human experience and the boundaries of what is possible for our species, from scientists and diplomats to politicians and explorers. Amongst the more than 80 guests he has interviewed have been world figures such as Yannis Varoufakis, US Ambassador John Kornblum, author of the Dayton agreement ending the war on the balkan, Kate Raworth (Doughnut Economy) and Stephen Wolfram.
