Conjecture Institute Conference
Advances in Physics
An online conference hosted by Conjecture Institute that brought together physicists and philosophers of physics working at the foundations of the field. All thirteen talks are now available to watch on YouTube.
Date
June 17, 2026
Format
Online
Recorded livestream
Talks
13
Now on YouTube
About
What does it mean to take our best theories in physics seriously? What do they tell us about what the world is really like? This conference gathered researchers pursuing these questions in quantum gravity, foundations of quantum mechanics, and constructor theory.
Program
All times ET
Speakers
Simon Saunders
Spoke on: Probability and Everett
Professor of Philosophy of Physics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, noted for his work on quantum mechanics, identity and indiscernibility, and structural realism.
Chiara Marletto
Spoke on: Constructor theory
Physicist at the University of Oxford and Senior Scientist at Conjecture Institute, author of The Science of Can and Can't.
Vlatko Vedral
Spoke on: Foundations of physics
Physicist at the University of Oxford, author of Portals to a New Reality, Decoding Reality, Introduction to Quantum Information Science, and several other books.
Marco Genovese
Spoke on: Bell inequalities
Research Director at INRIM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica) in Turin, where he leads the Quantum Optics group that he co-founded.
Alexander R. H. Smith
Spoke on: Quantum time dilation
Associate Professor of Physics at Saint Anselm College and Adjunct at Dartmouth College, working at the intersection of quantum information, relativity, and quantum gravity.
Charles Bédard
Spoke on: Bell inequalities
Quantum physicist and theoretical computer scientist working on foundational problems.
Sam Kuypers
Spoke on: Time
Quantum physicist, interested in foundational questions.
Maria Violaris
Spoke on: Quantum multiverse
Quantum physicist and science communicator at Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a University of Oxford spin-out.
Yasunori Nomura
Spoke on: Quantum gravity
Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, working on particle physics, quantum gravity, and cosmology.
Kicheon Kang
Spoke on: Locality in quantum mechanics
Professor of Physics at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea.
Fabrizio Piacentini
Spoke on: Constructor-based irreversibility
Experimental quantum physicist at INRIM in Turin, in the Quantum Metrology and Nanotechnologies Division.
Lodovico Scarpa
Spoke on: Irreversibility in quantum systems
DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford in Vlatko Vedral's group, part of the Frontiers of Quantum Physics research group in the Atomic and Laser Physics subdepartment.
Aditya Iyer
Spoke on: Quantum gravity
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Visiting Researcher at the University of Oxford, and CEO and co-founder of Allos AI, an Oxford-based company applying causal AI to reformulate complex generic medicines.
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