Contact: IGCEvents[AT]psu.eduLocation: University Park, PA, USA
The Open Quantum Universe Workshop at The Pennsylvania State University, supported by the Gravity Theory Trust, will be a focused event that aims to coordinate and stimulate significant recent interest in the understanding of cosmology as an open, out-of-equilibrium, quantum system. While these properties are clearly implied by the presence of an observer-dependent horizon and dynamical expansion, they are not naturally accommodated by the current theoretical frameworks for cosmology. The same properties are also at the core of condensed-matter physics and quantum information science.
The goal of this workshop is to gather leading contributors to these topics from the cosmological side in order to address foundational questions in cosmology, and to foster cross-disciplinary connections by building on initiatives that include condensed-matter theorists.