From Black Holes to the Cosmos: Matt Visser’s journey through space and time
from
Monday, August 24, 2026 (9:00 AM)
to
Friday, August 28, 2026 (6:00 PM)
Monday, August 24, 2026
9:00 AM
Welcome Reception
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Erik Curiel
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Thomas Sotiriou
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Ivan Booth
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Uwe R. Fischer - (Volume-law scaling for entanglement negativity from the Hawking radiation of analogue black holes)
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM
Goffredo Chirco - (Metric-Deformed Poisson Sigma Models: Dissipative Extensions of JT Gravity and Boundary Dynamics)
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
3:10 PM
Valentin Pomakov - (Analog regular black holes and black hole mimickers in a Bose-Einstein condensate)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Adolfo Cisterna - (New Dynamical Black Hole Solutions: Extending the Spectrum of Exact Primordial Objects)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
Massimiliano Rinaldi - (Aspects of cosmological coupling)
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM
Johanna Borissova - (Regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity)
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Antonio Panassiti - (Null convergence condition in regular black-hole spacetimes with Minkowski core)
5:00 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
Justin Feng - (Event horizon termination and the emergence of Lorentz signature)
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
9:30 AM
Eleni-alexandra Kontou
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Prado Martín Moruno
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Eric Poisson
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Raúl Carballo-Rubio - (Black holes in regular gravitational theories)
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM
Jacopo Mazza - (Beyond circles: stationary axisymmetric black holes and the breaking of circularity)
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
3:10 PM
Finnian Gray - (The hidden symmetries of slowly rotating black holes)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Hamed Barzegar - (Warp Drive: a Gedankenexperiment taken too far)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
Sebastian Schuster - (Science-Fiction Double Feature: Of Time Travel and Warp Drives)
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM
Jonathan Barenboim - (Evaporating regular black holes in 2D gravity)
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Massimiliano Spadafora - (Semiclassical Black Hole - White Hole transition: an analytical treatment)
5:00 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
Noa Zilberman - (The semiclassical energy outflux emerging from a collapsing shell)
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
9:30 AM
David Wiltshire
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Fay Dowker
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Carlos Barceló
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Ana Alonso Serrano - (Insights into the flow of information and the black hole information problem)
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM
Alexander Kamenshchik - (Cosmological Singularities and Quantum Paricles)
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
3:10 PM
Roberto Casadio - (Gravitational collapse and integrable singularities)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Social Activity
Social Activity
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, August 27, 2026
9:30 AM
Francisco Lobo
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Ted Jacobson
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Robert Mann
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Antonia Micol Frassino - (Semi-classical black holes: recent advances and future prospects)
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:50 PM
Lorenzo Pisani - (Semiclassical effects near the Cauchy horizon of a Reissner-Nordström black hole)
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
3:10 PM
Marco de Cesare - (Gravity from a modified Bekenstein entropy law: cosmological consequences)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Marion Cromb - (Curved spacetimes and accelerated observers in experimental analogues)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
Jessica Santiago - (Primordial Black Holes, Charge, and Dark Matter: Rethinking Evaporation Limits)
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM
Ilia Musco - (New perspectives on primordial black hole formation)
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Marco Bruni - (Supermassive BHs seeds from direct collapse of CDM-curvature peaks in ΛCDM)
5:00 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez - (Compact objects physics in the realm of multi-messenger astronomy)
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
7:00 PM
Social Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday, August 28, 2026
9:30 AM
Ralf Schützhold
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Silke Weinfurtner
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Matt Visser
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM