The detailed programme is below (jump to: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). The conference programme is also available in pdf format here.
Monday
8:15 – 8:50: Registration and welcome coffee
8:50 – 9:00: Opening remarks
9:00 – 10:30: Invited talk session
[Session chair: Alastair Abbott]
- Eric Gaussier – On some causal abstractions and links between LLMs and causality [slides]
- Fabio Costa – Operations, causality, and memory in continuous time
10:30 – 10:40: Presentation of the RQI COST action (Fabio Costa, WP3 leader)
10:40 – 11:10: Coffee break
11:10 – 12:25: Contributed talk session 1
[Session chair: Beata Zjawin]
- 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 [slides]
12:25 – 14:10: Lunch (at O’Campus, 7 minutes walk from the conference venue)
14:10 – 15:25: Contributed talk session 2
[Session chair: Hlér Kristjánsson]
- Ved Kunte, Kuntal Sengputa, Cyril Branciard – Higher Order Operations in Boxworld
- Veronika Baumann, Ämin Baumeler, Eleftherios-Ermis Tselentis – Dynamic and indefinite causality [slides]
- Robert Spekkens, Nick Ormrod – Causation in classical mechanics
15:25 – 16:10: Coffee break
16:10 – 17:30: Flash talks
[Session chair: Cyril Branciard]
- 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
- Matt Wilson – Agent policies from higher-order causal functions
- Kuntal Sengupta, Mirjam Weilenmann and Roger Colbeck – Correlation Self-Testing of Quantum Theory against Generalised Probabilistic Theories with Restricted Relabelling Symmetry [slides]
- 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 [slides]
- Jonathan Barrett, Isaac Friend, Aleks Kissinger – Identification of quantum Markovian causal models [slides]
- Maria Ciudad Alañón, Daniel Centeno, Andrew Watford, Elie Wolfe – Certifying Randomness or its Lack Thereof for General Network Scenarios
- Seiseki Akibue, Jisho Miyazaki – Correspondence between localizable bipartite measurements and nice unitary error bases
- Lewis Wooltorton, Kuntal Sengupta – Quantum Nonlocality and Device-Independent Randomness are robust to Noisy Signalling Channels [slides]
Tuesday
9:00 – 10:30: Invited talk session
[Session chair: V. Vilasini]
- 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
[Session chair: Hippolyte Dourdent]
- 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 [slides]
12:15 – 14:00: Lunch (O’Campus)
14:00 – 15:15: Contributed talk session 2
[Session chair: Alexei Grinbaum]
- 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 – 17:15: Contributed talk session 3
[Session chair: Matty Hoban]
- Eliot Jean, Ralph Silva, V. Vilasini – An equivalence between time-symmetry and cyclic causality in quantum theory [slides]
- Matt Wilson, James Hefford, Timothée Hoffreumon – Supermaps on generalised theories
- James Hefford, Matt Wilson – BV-Categories of Spacetime Interventions
17:15 – 19:15: Poster session
Wednesday
9:00 – 10:30: Invited talk session
[Session chair: Kuntal Sengupta]
- Mark Wilde – Quantum information processing in the presence of closed timelike curves [slides]
- Sougato Bose – Testing Spacetime Quantum Superpositions in the Laboratory
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15: Contributed talk session 1
[Session chair: Veronika Baumann]
- 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 [slides]
- Vanessa Brzić, Časlav Brukner, Esteban Castro Ruiz – Quantum-controlled dynamics from temporal quantum reference frames
12:15 – 14:00: Lunch (O’Campus)
14:00 – 15:15: Contributed talk session 2
[Session chair: Augustin Vanrietvelde]
- Nick Ormrod, Jarosław Korbicz – Decoherence Without the Quantum State [poster]
- 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 – 15:25: Words from our sponsor – Spooqy
15:25 – 16:00: Coffee break
19:30 – 22:30: Conference dinner: Chez le Pèr’gras
The conference dinner will take place at Chez le Pèr’gras, at the summit of the Bastille. The easiest way to access is by taking the Grenoble-Bastille cable car (from the Jardin de ville) with the tickets you received when registering. Please note, there are other events at the Bastille this day, so there will likely be queues to ride it. We recommend taking it prior to 6pm and enjoying the view from the top.
It is also possible to walk up. The walk is very pleasant (several different routes are possible), but allow about an hour. See here for routes and further information.
Thursday
9:00 – 9:45: Invited talk
[Session chair: Ravi Kunjwal]
- Emily Adlam – Is there causation in fundamental physics?
9:45 – 10:35: Contributed talk session 1
[Session chair: Ravi Kunjwal]
- Zixuan Liu, Ognyan Oreshkov – Parity erasure: a foundational principle for indefinite causal order
- Luca Apadula, Alessandro Bisio, Giulio Chiribella, Paolo Perinotti, Kyrylo Simonov – Higher-order transformations of bidirectional quantum processes
10:35 – 11:05: Coffee break
11:05 – 12:20: Contributed talk session 2
[Session chair: John Selby]
- 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 [slides]
- Octave Mestoudjian, Matt Wilson, Augustin Vanrietvelde, Pablo Arrighi – Picturing causality and localisability on non-factor subsystems
12:20 – 14:00: Lunch (O’Campus)
14:00 – 15:30: Unconference & structured discussion session
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:20: Contributed talk session 3
[Session chair: Elie Wolfe]
- 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
[Session chair: Yilè Yīng]
- Mirjam Weilenmann – Monogamy relations for relativistically causal correlations
9:45 – 10:35: Contributed talk session 1
[Session chair: Yilè Yīng]
- 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
[Session chair: Matt Wilson]
- Matthieu Bruant, Alastair Abbott – Revisiting genuine-multipartiteness in causally indefinite correlations and processes [slides]
- 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
- Raphaël Mothe, Jessica Bavaresco – Efficient quantum-circuit simulation of classical control of causal order [slides]