Event Schedule

Open Quantum Systems: Dissipative Dynamics from Quarks to the Cosmos

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Week 2

Monday, December 8, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides Video
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Welcome to the INT Sanjay Reddy Institute for Nuclear Theory C421 PDF
Cosmic Lockdown: How decoherence saves the universe from tunnelling Gregory P Kaplanek Syracuse University C421 PDF mp4
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Partial observations and ensembles of open quantum systems Sarah Shandera Pennsylvania State University C421 PDF
LUNCH BREAK
Discussion: Divergences for open quantum field theories Gregory P Kaplanek Syracuse University C423

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides Video
COFFEE C421
How the medium detects the color of jet partons : An EFT description Varun Vaidya University of South Dakota C421 PDF
COFFEE
An open system approach to gravity Enrico Pajer University of Cambridge C421 PDF mp4
LUNCH BREAK
INT Seminar: QCD Axion Condensates and Neutron Star Radial Oscillations Antonio Gomez Universidad de Alicante C421 PDF

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides Video
COFFEE
Open Effective Field Theories for the early and late universe Thomas Colas University of Cambridge C421 PDF mp4
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Towards optimal observables for in-medium quarkonium Alexander Karl Rothkopf Korea University C421 PDF mp4
LUNCH BREAK
Discussion: Open Systems in Cosmology — Goals and Prospects Enrico Pajer / Thomas Colas University of Cambridge C423

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides
COFFEE
Holographic perspective on open quantum systems Alex Buchel Western University/Perimeter Institute C421 PDF
COFFEE
Blackboard talk: Infrared Divergences in Open Quantum Systems Soo-Jong Rey Kwangwoon University C421
LUNCH BREAK
Whiteboard talk and discussion: New insights on heavy quark and quarkonium transport from real-time Schwinger-Keldysh calculation Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics/University of California Santa Barbara C423

Friday, December 12, 2025

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides
COFFEE
Recent theory developments for quarkonium evolution in hot QCD medium Pol Bernard Gossiaux IMT Atlantique C421 PDF
COFFEE
Prospects and challenges for cosmic relics using nuclear spins Giovanni Pierobon University of New South Wales C421 PDF
LUNCH BREAK
Discussion: Key open questions in the study of heavy quarkonium + outlook on exotics Alexander Karl Rothkopf Korea University C423