Opening address

• Stefan Hollands (Leipzig)

Quantum fields inside black holes

• Christiane Klein (Leipzig)

Applications of asymptotic safety

• Astrid Eichhorn (Odense)

Lecture Q&A

Black hole physics

• Vitor Cardoso (Lisbon)

Lecture Q&A

Quantum Information Theory

• Mark Wilde (Baton Rouge)

Lecture Q&A

Flat-Space Higher-Spin Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions

• Michel Pannier (Jena)

Unfaithfulness of tidal gravitational-wave approximants and equation of state constraints from binary neutron star signals

• Rossella Gamba (Jena)

Gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron star coalescences carry information about the star's equation of state in their tidal signatures. A major issue in the inference of the tidal parameters (or directly of the equation of state) is the systematic error introduced by waveform approximants. In this talk I will discuss their impact on the loud, high signal to noise ratio events that will be observed by advanced and third generation detectors, and show how current state of the art waveform models are insufficient to unequivocally infer equation of state constraints from GW PE.

Black hole physics

• Vitor Cardoso (Lisbon)

Lecture Q&A

Loop Quantum Gravity: Basics and Recent Advances

• Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State)

Lecture Q&A

Quantum Information Theory

• Mark Wilde (Baton Rouge)

Lecture Q&A

A twisted approach to supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on the lattice

• Marc Steinhauser (Jena)

Towards a manifestly supersymmetric formulation of loop quantum supergravity

• Konstantin Eder (Erlangen)

We study the idea to quantize supergravity in the framework of loop quantum gravity in a way such that the resulting theory still reflects, at least partially, the underlying supersymmetry. Therefore, following the approach of D'Aurea and Fre, we consider supergravity as super Cartan geometry and derive a super analog of Ashtekar's connection. This sets the stage for a quantisation of the theory that might lead to a unified description of both, gravity and matter degrees of freedom. We will then apply this apporach to symmetry reduced models and will then see that this leads in a very elegant way to a quantum theory in accordance with the standard state space of loop quantum cosmology in presence of fermionic matter fields.

Curvature Bound from Gravitational Catalysis in a thermal background

• Abdol Sabor Salek (Jena)

Applications of asymptotic safety

• Astrid Eichhorn (Odense)

Lecture Q&A

Big Bang, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: Examples of Paradigm Shifts in Fundamental Science

• Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State)

Lecture Q&A