Schedule

Monday: Introductory school

8:15-9:00: Registration in seminar room M104. Registration is also possible later during the coffee break  in room M104 or in room M226 (office of Ms Ferstl, the conference secretary).
The lectures will all take place in the lecture room H31.

In the introductory school, we will mainly follow the structure in the recent textbook “Causal Fermion Systems: An Introduction to Fundamental Structures, Methods and Applications”. We will cover part of the material in Chapters 2-3, 5-9 and 21. Some basics on relativity and quantum theory will be assumed (you find this preliminary material in Chapter 1 of the book).

9:00-9:45Jan-Hendrik TreudeMathematical Preliminaries (measures, Hilbert spaces, operators, manifolds)
9:45-10:30Claudio PaganiniMotivation in examples
coffee break
11:00-11:40Felix FinsterGeneral definition of a causal fermion system, the causal action principle
10:40-12:00Discussion and questions
lunch break
14:00-14:40Robert JonssonInherent structures I (spin spaces, physical wave functions, the kernel of the fermionic projector)
14:45-15:30Sebastian KindermannCorrespondence to classical spacetimes
15:30-16:00Physical discussion
coffee break
16:15-16:40Simone MurroInherent structures II (surface layer integrals and conservation laws)
16:45-17:15Patrick FischerBasics on the continuum limit
17:15-18:00Moritz ReintjesDiscussion and questions
break
19:00Shane Farnsworth, Antonino Marcianò, Barbara ŠodaOutreach event

Tuesday: Geometry

Quantum spacetime structures:
9:00-9:20Felix FinsterWelcome and overview of geometric structures of a causal fermion system
9:20-9:50Renate Loll"Dynamical triangulations"
10:00-10:30Thomas Thiemann"Loop quantum gravity"
coffee break and poster session
11:00-11:30Daniele Oriti"Group field theory"
11:40-12:10Frederic SchullerConstructive gravity
lunch break
Classical spacetime structures:
14:00-14:30Clemens Sämann and Roland Steinbauer"Non-smooth Lorentzian spacetimes or Lorentzian length spaces"
14:40-15:10Miguel Sánchez Caja"Cone and/or Finsler structures"
coffee break
16:00-16:40M1Moderated plenary discussion
16:45-17:25P11, P12, P13, P14, P15Parallel discussions
17:30-18:10P21, P22, P23, P24, P25Parallel discussions
18:15-18:55P31, P32, P33, P34, P35Parallel discussions

Details on the discussion sessions

  • M1: Moderated discussion
    Topic: “What mathematical structures should a fundamental physical theory be based on?”
    Moderators: tba
  • P1x-P3x:  Parallel discussions
    Moderators: Max Joseph Fahn, Franz Gmeineder, Niky Kamran, Christoph Minz, Olaf Müller, Clemens Sämann, Roland Steinbauer, Stefan Suhr, Thomas Thiemann
    P11 “Quantum versus non-smooth classical geometry”: Daniele Oriti, Clemens Sämann
    P12 “The causal action principle as a geometric variational problem”: Franz Gmeineder, Niky Kamran
    P21 “Geometric flows”: Antonino Marcianò, Franz Gmeineder, Margarita Kraus
    P22 “Singular Lorentzian metrics and regularization”: Moritz Reintjes, Roland Steinbauer
    P31 “Limits of spacetimes”: Niky Kamran, Olaf Müller
    P32 “Cone structures”: Stefan Suhr, Margarita Kraus

The topics of all other parallel discussions can be proposed by the participants online during the conference. The topics will be selected on short notice with an online voting system by all participants.

Wednesday: Cosmology and Particle Physics

09:00-09:30Mairi Sakellariadoutba
09:40-10:10Eduardo Guendelman"Modified measure theories"
coffee break and poster session
10:30-10:45Marco van den Beld SerranoA mechanism of baryogenesis for causal fermion systems
10:50-11:30P41, P42, P43, P44, P45Parallel discussions
11:35-12:15P51, P52, P53, P54, P55Parallel discussions
lunch break
15:00-17:00Guided city tour with visit of Kepler Museum
19:00-21:00Conference dinner at Brauhaus am Schloss

Details on the discussion sessions

  • P4x-P5x:  Parallel discussions
    Moderators: Eduardo Guendelmann, José Isidro, Michael Kiessling, Antonino Marcianò
    P41 “Mechanisms of baryogenesis”: Claudio Paganini
    P51 “$H_0$ tension and quantum gravity”: Claudio Paganini

The topics of all other parallel discussions will again be determined with the online voting system.

Thursday: Quantum information and quantum field theory

Quantum information and entropy:
09:00-09:30Achim Kempf"Relativstic quantum information"
09:40-10:10Albert Much"Quantum entropies"
coffee break and poster session
10:40-11:10Alessandro PesciSemiclassical thermodynamics of spacetime
11:20-11:35Claudio Paganini"Causal fermion systems as a web of spacetime correlations"
11:45-12:25P71, P72, P73, P74, P75Parallel discussions
lunch break
Quantum field theory:
14:00-14:30Rainer Verch"Algebraic QFT"
14:40-15:10Astrid Eichhorn"Asymptotic safety"
15:15-15:30Moritz ReintjesThe QFT limit of causal fermion systems
coffee break
16:00-16:40P81, P82, P83, P84, P85Parallel discussions
16:45-17:25P91, P92, P93, P94, P95Parallel discussions
17:30-18:10P101, P102, P103, P104, P105Parallel discussions
18:15-18:55P111, P112, P113, P114, P115Parallel discussions

Details on the discussion sessions

  • P6x-P11x:  Parallel discussions
    Moderators: Robert Jonsson, Gandalf Lechner, Simone Murro, Alessandro Pesci, Wojciech Dybalski, Vincent Rivasseau
    P61 “Quantum entropies”: Gandalf Lechner, Simone Murro
    P71 “Thermodynamics and spacetime”: Claudio Paganini, Alessandro Pesci
    P81 “Quantum field theory: Constructive versus pertrurbative”: Vincent Rivasseau

The topics of all other parallel discussions will again be determined with the online voting system.

Friday: Quantum foundations, collapse and algebraic structures

Quantum foundations and collapse:
09:00-09:30Lajos Diosi"Collapse models"
09:40-10:10Kristian Piscicchia"Experiments for collapse models"
coffee break and poster session
10:30-11:00Jürg Fröhlich"The ETH formulation of quantum theory"
11:10-11:25Felix Finstercausal fermion systems as an effective collapse theory
11:30-12:10M2Moderated plenary discussion
lunch
14:00-14:40P121, P122, P123, P124, P125Parallel discussions
Algebraic structures:
14:45-15:15Tejinder P. SinghTrace dynamics, octonions and unification
15:25-15:55Niels GresnigtAlgebraic spinors in causal fermion systems
coffee break
16:20-17:00M3Moderated plenary discussion
17:10-17:50P131, P132, P133, P134, P135Parallel discussions
after 17:50closing and dinner

Details on the discussion sessions

  • M2: Moderated discussion
    Topic: “Current perspectives on the measurement problem”
    Moderators: Siddhant Das, Michael Kiessling, Paula Reichert
  • M3: Moderated discussion
    Topic: “Challenges for causal fermion systems and other approaches”
    Moderators: tba
  • P12x-P13x:  Parallel discussions
    Moderators: Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga, Dirk Deckert, Michał Eckstein, Hans Thomas Elze, Shane Farnsworth, Eduardo Guendelmann, José Isidro, Michael Kiessling, Antonino Marcianò, Barbara Šoda, Christoph Stephan
    P121 “Collapse and heating”: Catalina Curceanu
    P131 “Algebraic structures in the standard model”: Shane Farnsworth
    P132 “Non-commutative geometry”: Michał Eckstein, Christoph Stephan

The topics of all other parallel discussions will again be determined with the online voting system.