Program
Please note: This is the program of the 2018 IU conference. To view the topics of our next (2020) conference, click here.
| Tuesday 3 July | ||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Registration | |||
| Session | Emergent Space-Time and Gravity | |||
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Opening | Edwin Valentijn | Kapteyn Insitute, University of Groningen, NL | |
| 13:40 - 14:30 | Keynote: Spacetime microstructure, Gravity and the Cosmos | Thanu Padmanabhan | Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, IN | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Information Retrieval From Black Holes | Sumanta Chakraborty | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, IN | |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Invited: Unraveling black holes with gravitational waves | Chris Van Den Broeck | Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, NL | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee break | |||
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Keynote: String Theory, Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe | Erik Verlinde | Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, NL | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Hints towards the Emergent Nature of Gravity | Manus Visser | Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, NL | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Testing Verlinde's Emergent Gravity using Gravitational Lensing | Margot Brouwer | Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam, NL | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Emergent Gravity as a Relic of Quantum Spacetime | Dawood Kothawala | Indian Institute of Technology Madras, IN | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Room for discussion | |||
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Group photo | |||
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner buffet | |||
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Break | |||
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Public Talk: Cosmic History and Mysteries | Thanu Padmanabhan | Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, IN | |
| Wednesday 4 July | ||||
| Session | Information and the Theory of Everything | |||
| 9:00 - 9:20 | On the origin of physical information | Stefano Gottardi | Simbeyond B.V. Eindhoven, NL | |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | How the universe computes | Stephen Anastasi | The Scots PGC College, AU | |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | The complexity and information content of (simulated) cosmic structures | Franco Vazza | Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna, IT | |
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |||
| Session | Life Science and Biology | |||
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Keynote: Information in the brain - From understanding to non-Turing computing | Karlheinz Meier | Human Brain Project, University of Heidelberg, DE | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Invited: How Much Coral Habitat is there globally? An Ecological Modelling and Remote Sensing Journey | Chris Roelfsema | Remote Sensing Research Centre, University of Queensland, AU | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |||
| 13:30 - 13:55 | Big data analysis of public datasets to improve the genetic diagnostic process | Patrick Deelen | University Medical Center Groningen, NL | |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | GAVIN: Gene-Aware Variant INterpretation for medical sequencing | Joeri van der Velde | University Medical Center Groningen, NL | |
| 14:20 - 14:50 | Coffee break | |||
| Session | Machine Learning | |||
| 14:50 - 15:30 | Keynote: Making complex data speak | Ashish Mahabal | California Institute of technology, US | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Detection of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in the Fornax Deep Survey | Reynier Peletier | Kapteyn Insitute, University of Groningen, NL | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Learning What Questions to Ask About Dark Energy | Andrew Arrasmith | UC Davis Physics/Los Alamos National Labs, US | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Machine-Learning Strategies for Variable Source Classification | Nina Hernitschek | California Institute of technology, US | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Extra time | |||
| 18:30 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner | |||
| Thursday 5 July | ||||
| Session | Information, Complexity and handling Big Data | |||
| 9:30 - 10:10 | Keynote: Hidden Order in the Informational Structure of Life | Peter Sloot | Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, NL | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Invited: Information from the cosmic dark ages | Pratika Dayal | Kapteyn Insitute, University of Groningen, NL | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Invited: Big data and visualization in the Jupyter Notebook | Maarten Breddels | Freelance developer / consultant, NL | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Facts and Fakes: data validation beyond big data | Edwin Valentijn | Kapteyn Insitute, University of Groningen, NL | |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Design, Drag & Drop and Deploy your own deep learning application in minutes! | Bas Beukers | Horus VR Experience, Groningen, NL | |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Machine learning as a service or custom built solutions? | Jean-Paul van Oosten | Target Holding, Groningen, NL | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Full-dome movie Phantom of the Universe: The Hunt for Dark Matter |
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| 14:30 - 14:50 | The Hunt for the first Black Hole image | Remo Tilanus | Leiden Observatory & Radboud University, NL | |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | Unknowable Determinism: An Atomic Theory of Space and Time | Edward Fredkin | The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, US | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break | |||
| Session | Quantum Information and Computation | |||
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Invited: Quantum entanglement and space-time | Michael Walter | QuSoft, University of Amsterdam, NL | |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | The Signature of Accelerated Detectors in Cavities | Richard Lopp | Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, US | |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Organizing the Universe with Dark Matter: Maximizing Complexity in Cosmic Structures | Sinziana Paduroiu | Quantum Gravity Research, US | |
| Friday 6 July | ||||
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Keynote: From quantum surprises to quantum devices | Lieven Vandersypen | QuTech, Delft University of Technology, NL | |
| Session | Cosmology, large-scale structure and the Euclid satellite | |||
| 9:40 - 10:10 | Invited: Cosmology and more with Euclid | Henk Hoekstra | Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden, NL | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Euclid - a data driven space mission | René Laureijs | European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), NL | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Keynote: Bending the Universe | Alan Heavens | Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology, Imperial College London, UK | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Invited: Lighting up Einstein's dark Universe | Alessandra Silvestri | Lorentz Insitute, University of Leiden, NL | |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Geometry of the Local Universe | Johan Hidding | Netherlands eScience Center / University of Groningen, NL | |
| 12:40 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |||
| 13:30 - 13:50 | The crumpling of primordial information in the cosmic spider web | Mark Neyrinck | University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, SP | |
| 13:50 - 14:20 | Invited: Cosmic web analysis and Information Theory | Florent Leclercq | Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology, London, UK | |
| 14:20 - 14:50 | Past, Present and Future in cosmology | Daan Meerburg | Universities of Cambridge and Groningen, NL | |
| 14:50 - 15:30 | Final Plenary Discussion | |||