Scientific Calendar Event



Description The huddle is an informal workshop bringing together researchers across high-energy physics to discuss the topics of entanglement and edge modes in quantum gravity. The schedule will be light to allow for plenty of opportunities for discussion.


Participant List
Panos Betzios (Gent University)
Andreas Blommaert (IAS)
Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA)
Horacio Casini (Centro Atómico Bariloche)
Atish Dabholkar (ICTP Trieste)
Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University and IHES)
Marina Huerta (Centro Atómico Bariloche)
Thomas Mertens (Gent University)
Upamanyu Moitra (UvA)
Olga Papadoulaki (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT)
Pavel Putrov (ICTP Trieste)
Andrei Rotaru (SISSA)
Riccardo Travaglino (SISSA)
Erik Tonni*(SISSA)
Gabriel Wong (Oxford University)

*To be confirmed


Go to day
  • Monday, 8 June 2026
    • 19:00 - 21:00 Day 1
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Terrace
      • 19:00 Welcome reception 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 9 June 2026
    • 09:45 - 14:30 Day 2
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 An Observer's Quantization of 3d dS 1h0'
        Speaker: Andreas Blommaert (IAS)
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
      • 11:15 Entropy Inequalities and Typical States 1h0'
        Speaker: Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University and IHES)
      • 12:15 Lunch break 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Haag Duality Violations, Order Parameters, and Some Classification Results 1h0'
        Speaker: Horacio Casini (Centro Atómico Bariloche)
  • Wednesday, 10 June 2026
    • 09:45 - 14:30 Day 3
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Large Quantum Gravity Fluctuations in AdS/CFT 1h0'
        Speaker: Upamanyu Moitra (University of Amsterdam)
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
      • 11:15 Entanglement Negativity for a Free Scalar Chiral Current 1h0'
        Speaker: Marina Huerta (Centro Atómico Bariloche)
      • 12:15 Lunch break 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Novel Perspectives on the Quasiparticle Picture and Entanglement Propagation 1h0'
        Speaker: Riccardo Travaglino (SISSA)
  • Thursday, 11 June 2026
    • 09:45 - 14:30 Day 4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Entanglement and Local Holography in Topological String Theory 1h0'
        Speaker: Gabriel Wong (Oxford University)
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
      • 11:15 From Multipartite Entanglement to TQFT 1h0'
        Speaker: Pavel Putrov (ICTP)
      • 12:15 Lunch break 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Hilbert Space Factorization in 3d Gravity 1h0'
        Speaker: Thomas Mertens (Gent University)
  • Friday, 12 June 2026
    • 09:45 - 13:30 Day 5
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Shape Transitions in Entanglement and Negativity Hamiltonians 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrei Rotaru (SISSA)
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
      • 11:15 Target Space Entanglement Entropy from c = 1 Matrix Quantum Mechanics 1h0'
        Speaker: Panos Betzios (Gent University)
      • 12:15 Lunch break 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )