Event Description

A Convergence of the World's Top Physicists to Take on the Biggest Challenge in Science

Wednesday, August 17, 2022
9:00 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. (PT)
The Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver

Our world would be unrecognizable without quantum mechanics and our universe would be inexplicable without Einsteinian relativity; but the two theories are incompatible. Vancouver's Quantum Gravity Society has been created to act as a catalyst and base for the world's top minds in Physics to unify these approaches to one Theory of Quantum Gravity. The removal of this theoretical bottleneck will change everything - from our daily lives to how technology could affect our global future.

Vancouver's Quantum Gravity Society has been created to enable the world's top minds in Physics to unify these approaches into one Theory of Quantum Gravity. The Society wants to make sure that this revolution happens here in Vancouver. The Quantum Gravity Society founding members are Frank Giustra, Paul Lee, Terry Hui, Moe Kermani, Markus Frind, Abhay Ashtekar, Sir Roger Penrose, Philip Stamp, Bill Unruh and Birgitta Whaley.

The public day will feature TED-style talks featuring a dream team of the world's preeminent physicists, including Nobel Prize winners: Jim Peebles, Sir Roger Penrose, and Kip Thorne, along with Baron Martin Rees, Markus Aspelmeyer, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Paul Steinhardt.

All day access tickets including VIP luncheon:

Corporate Table of 8: $1,100
Individual: $129

All day access tickets (luncheon not included):

Individual: $59
Student / Academia: $30

Schedule:

Registration Opens: 8:00 a.m.
Morning Program: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
VIP Lunch: 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Afternoon Program: 2:30 – 4:20 p.m.
Public Discussion / Debate: 4:20 – 5:15 p.m.

PROGRAM:

• Session 1: Beginning of the Universe
• Viatcheslav Mukhanov - Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist, University of Munich
• Paul Steinhardt - Theoretical Physicist, Princeton University

• Session 2: History of the Universe
• Jim Peebles, 2019 Nobel Laureate, Princeton University
• Baron Martin Rees - Cosmologist and Astrophysicist, University of Cambridge
• Sir Roger Penrose, 2020 Nobel Laureate, University of Oxford (via zoom)

• VIP Lunch Session: Quantum Gravity -- Why Should We Care?
• Kip Thorne - 2017 Nobel Laureate, Executive Producer of blockbuster film "Interstellar"

• Session 3: What do Experiments Say?
• Markus Aspelmeyer - Experimental Physicist, Quantum Optics and Optomechanics Leader, University of Vienna
• Sir Roger Penrose – 2020 Nobel Laureate (by zoom)

• Session 4: Time Travel
  • Kip Thorne - 2017 Nobel Laureate, Executive Producer of blockbuster film "Interstellar"