A preliminary conference programme is available below, or in pdf format here. The detailed programme is below.
Monday
8:30 – 9:00: Registration and welcome coffee
9:00 – 10:30: Invited talk session
- Eric Gaussier – On some causal abstractions and links between LLMs and causality
- Fabio Costa – Operations, causality, and memory in continuous time
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15: Contributed talk session 1
- Robin Lorenz, Sean Tull – Causal and Compositional Abstraction
- Xingjian Zhang, Yuhao Wang, Elie Wolfe – On the physics of nested Markov models: a generalized probabilistic theory perspective
- Paul Becsi, Matthew Hoban – Bounding Classical and Quantum Correlations in Bayesian Networks with Quasiprobabilities
12:15 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:15: Contributed talk session 2
- Ved Kunte, Kuntal Sengputa, Cyril Branciard – Higher Order Operations in Boxworld
- Luca Apadula, Alessandro Bisio, Giulio Chiribella, Paolo Perinotti, Kyrylo Simonov – Higher-order transformations of bidirectional quantum processes
- Robert Spekkens, Nicholas Ormrod – Causation in classical mechanics
15:15 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:20: Flash talks
- Wataru Yokojima, Jisho Miyazaki, Mio Murao – Probabilistic Storage and Retrieval of Quantum Superchannels for “Retrospective” Intervention
- Nick Ormrod – A causal derivation of the algebraic approach to quantum systems
- Nasra Daher Ahmed, Ravi Kunjwal – How unitaries encode the trade-off between causal order and locality
- Kuntal Sengupta, Mirjam Weilenmann and Roger Colbeck – Correlation Self-Testing of Quantum Theory against Generalised Probabilistic Theories with Restricted Relabelling Symmetry
- Beata Zjawin, Marina Maciel Ansanelli, David Schmid, Yìlè Yīng, John H. Selby, Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee, Ana Belén Sainz, Robert Spekkens – The resource theory of causal influence and knowledge of causal influence
- Giulio Chiribella, Kaumudbikash Goswami – Maximum and Minimum Causal Effects of Physical Processes
- Jonathan Barrett, Isaac Friend, Aleks Kissinger – Identification of quantum Markovian causal models
- Seiseki Akibue, Jisho Miyazaki – Correspondence between localizable bipartite measurements and nice unitary error bases
- Lucas Pollyceno, Denis Freudenheim, José Nogueira, Anubhav Chaturvedi, Rafael Rabelo, Marcin Pawłowski – Communication-constrained nonlocal correlations
- Lewis Wooltorton, Kuntal Sengupta – Quantum Nonlocality and Device-Independent Randomness are robust to Noisy Signalling Channels
Tuesday
9:00 – 10:30: Invited talk session
- Lee Rozema – Experimental Implementations of Quantum Switches
- John Selby – Generalised Process Theories
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15: Contributed talk session 1
- Hannah Seabrook, Paul Skrzypczyk, Fabio Costa, Giulia Rubino – Closing the closed-labs loophole in device-independent tests of indefinite causality
- Matthias Salzger, V. Vilasini – Higher-order quantum processes respecting closed labs in a spacetime have quantum controlled causal order
- V. Vilasini, Lin-Qing Chen, Liuhang Ye, Renato Renner – Events are relative to a Lab: dissolving the debate on quantum switch experiments
12:15 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:15: Contributed talk session 2
- Huw Price – Retrieving the Baby: Reichenbach’s Principle, Bell Locality, and Selection Bias
- Daniel Centeno, Antoine Coquet, Maria Ciudad Alanon, Lucas Tendick, Marc-Olivier Renou, Elie Wolfe – A missing causal principle: Coordination
- Yìlè Yīng, Maria Ciudad Alanon, Daniel Centeno, Jacopo Surace, Marina Maciel Ansanelli, Ruizhi Liu, David Schmid, Robert W. Spekkens – On whether quantum theory needs complex numbers: the foil theories perspective
15:15 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:20: Contributed talk session 3
- Eliot Jean, Ralph Silva, V. Vilasini – An equivalence between time-symmetry and cyclic causality in quantum theory
- Matt Wilson, James Hefford, Timothée Hoffreumon – Supermaps on generalised theories
- James Hefford, Matt Wilson – BV-Categories of Spacetime Interventions
17:30 – 19:00: Poster session
Wednesday
9:00 – 10:30: Invited talk session
- Mark Wilde – Quantum information processing in the presence of closed timelike curves
- Sougato Bose – TBD
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15: Contributed talk session 1
- Nicolas Boulle, Guilherme Franzmann – Subsystems (in)dependence in GIE proposals
- Maarten Grothus, V. Vilasini – Impossibility of superluminal signalling rules out causal loops in conical spacetimes
- Vanessa Brzić, Časlav Brukner, Esteban Castro Ruiz – Quantum-controlled dynamics from temporal quantum reference frames
12:15 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:15: Contributed talk session 2
- Nick Ormrod, Jarosław Korbicz – Decoherence Without the Quantum State
- Carla Ferradini, Giulia Mazzola, V. Vilasini – Emergent causal order and time direction: bridging causal models and tensor networks
- Luca Apadula, Alexei Grinbaum, Časlav Brukner – Reference frames for process matrices: from coordinate parametrization to spacetime representation
15:15 – 15:45: Coffee break
19:30 – 23:30: Conference dinner
Thursday
9:00 – 9:45: Invited talk
- Emily Adlam – Is there causation in fundamental physics?
9:45 – 10:35: Contributed talk session 1
- Zixuan Liu, Ognyan Oreshkov – Parity erasure: a foundational principle for indefinite causal order
- Raphaël Mothe, Jessica Bavaresco – Efficient quantum-circuit simulation of classical control of causal order
10:35 – 11:05: Coffee break
11:05 – 12:20: Contributed talk session 2
- Nicolas Moulonguet, Augustin Vanrietvelde – Subsystems as subsets of quantum channels, and the strange case of blind agents
- Tein van der Lugt, Robin Lorenz – Unitary causal decompositions via lattice theory
- Octave Mestoudjian, Matt Wilson, Augustin Vanrietvelde, Pablo Arrighi – Picturing causality and localisability on non-factor subsystems
12:20 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Unconference & structured discussion session
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:20: Contributed talk session 3
- Giorgio Minati, Giovanni Rodari, Emanuele Polino, Francesco Andreoli, Davide Poderini, Rafael Chaves, Gonzalo Carvacho, Fabio Sciarrino – Randomness certification in a quantum network with independent sources
- Pedro Lauand – Network-Irreducible Multiparty Entanglement in Quantum Matter
- Tamás Kriváchy– Bell nonlocality without inputs: the path from theory to experiments and applications
17:20 – 18:15: Business meeting
Friday
9:00 – 9:45: Invited talk
- Mirjam Weilenmann – Monogamy relations for relativistically causal correlations
9:45 – 10:35: Contributed talk session 1
- Shashaank Khanna, Matthew Pusey, Roger Colbeck – Closing the problem of which causal structures of up to six total nodes have a classical-quantum gap, merged with Identifying causal structures which cannot support quantum correlations without fine-tuning
- Matilde Baroni, Dominik Leichtle, Ivan Šupić, Damian Markham, Marco Túlio Quintino – Composable simultaneous purification: when all communication scenarios reduce to spatial correlations
10:35 – 11:05: Coffee break
11:05 – 12:20: Contributed talk session 2
- Matthieu Bruant, Alastair Abbott – Revisiting genuine-multipartiteness in causally indefinite correlations and processes
- Hippolyte Dourdent, Kyrylo Simonov, Andreas Leitherer, Emanuel-Cristian Boghiu, Ravi Kunjwal, Saronath Halder, Remigiusz Augusiak, Antonio Acin – Paradox-free classical non-causality and unambiguous non-locality without entanglement are equivalent
- Veronika Baumann, Ämin Baumeler, Eleftherios-Ermis Tselentis – Dynamic and indefinite causality