Programme

This is our definite programme.

Wednesday 22 June
12:30 - 13:30 Registration and Welcome with coffee & tea
13:30 - 13:40 Welcome by Edwin Valentijn
Session: The ΛCDM tension, Euclid and the future of cosmology. Chair:Alessandra Silvestri.
13:40 - 14:20 Henk Hoekstra on "Euclid: the ultimate cosmology mission?"
14:20 - 15:00 Leon Koopmans on "Hubble Tension between Early and Late Universe Measurements"
15:00 - 15:25 Edwin Valentijn on "Testing Gravity models (Entropic Gravity, MOND and L-CDM) with the RAR"
15:25 - 16:00 Coffee break
Session: The Computing Universe. Chair:Bernard Jones.
16:00 - 16:40 Seth Lloyd on "Ethics in the information processing universe"
16:40 - 17:10 Juan Garcia-Bellido on "The weight of information: Cosmic acceleration from first principles"
17:10 - 17:30 Enrique Gaztanaga on "The black hole Universe"
17:30 - 19:05 Buffet in the foyer
19:05 - 19:45 Stephen Wolfram (on-line) on "Making Everything Computational-Including the Universe"
20:00 - 21:00 Public Talk by Tamara Davis
Thursday 23 June
Session:The ΛCDM tension, Euclid and the future of cosmology 2. Chair:Rien van de Weijgaert
09:00 - 09:30 Job Feldbrugge on "Caustic skeleton of the cosmic web"
09:30 - 09:50 Mark Neyrinck (on-line) on “The Boundary of Determinism
09:50 - 10:10 Yan-Chuan Cai on: "Splitting the cosmic-web for more information"
10:10 - 10:30 Luca Giomi on "Cosmology in biology:the expanding physics of bacterial colonies"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
Session: Life Science and Biology. Chair: Nikki Arendse.
11:00 - 11:40 Charley Lineweaver on "Information's Dependence on Biology"
11:40 - 12:20 David Eric Smith on "Information gateways to life"
12:20 - 13:40 Lunch in the foyer
Session: Target Fieldlab. Chair: Edwin Valentijn.
13:40 - 14:20 Ruurd Oosterwoud on "Data driven solutions to countering disinformation"
14:20 - 14:35 Herbert Kruitbosch on "Disinformation"
14:35 - 14:55 Rees Williams and Venustiano Soancatl Aguilar on "Visualising virtual observatory catalogues in a digital dome"
14:55 - 15:15 Gijs Verdoes Kleijn on "Information expiration & Near-Earth Objects"
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
Session: Machine Learning and Complexity.Chair: Peter Sloot.
15:45 - 16:25 Larry Wasserman (on-line) on "The Foundations of Statistical Inference"
16:25 - 16:55 Miguel Aragon (on-line) on "Data Experiences in Virtual Reality"
16:55 - 17:15 Kevin Grosvenor on "Entropy in Neural networks"
17:15 - 17:35 Leon Lang on "Generalized Information Diagrams and Interpreting"
18:30 - 19:30 Drinks at the Prinsenhof
19:30 - 21:30 Conference Dinner at the Prinsenhof
Friday 24 June
09:15 - 9:30 Ion Soteropoulos on "Mind § Galaxy poem"
Session: The ΛCDM tension, Euclid and the future of cosmology 3. Chair: Henk Hoekstra.
09:30 - 10:10 Tamara Davis on "Cosmological tensions, and whether measurements or theory will resolve them"
10:10 - 10:40 Nikki Arendse on "Cosmic dissonance: new physics or systematics behind the Hubble tension?"
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Session: Quantum Information: from gravity to unification. Chair: Margot Brouwer.
11:30 - 12:10 Erik Verlinde on "Emergence of Gravity from Quantum Information: a Progress Report"
12:10 - 12:30 Manus Visser on "Newton's law of inertia from entanglement"
12:30 - 12:50 Reinoud Slagter on "Black Hole Paradoxes and Antipodicity in Warped Spacetimes: A 5D Exact Embedded Black Hole Solution"
12:50 - 13:40 Lunch in the foyer
Session: Quantum Information: from gravity to unification. Chair:Erik Verlinde.
13:40 - 14:00 Stefano Gottardi on "On the origin of physical information:is quantum entanglement a way to conserve physics?"
14:00 - 14:20 "Petr Jizba on "Decoherence limit of quantum systems"
14:20 - 15:00 Carlo Rovelli (on-line) on "Our current physics of the time direction does account for agency"
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00 Panel discussion with moderator Bernard Jones