(VERY!) PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:45 Bernard Carr: Primordial Black Holes after 50 Years
13:45-14:30 Chris Hull: Is String Theory a Theory of Quantum Gravity?
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-15:45 Ian Moss: False Vacuum Decay from the Big Bang to the Present Day
15:45-16:15 Bruce Allen: Stephen, Gary and Gravitational Waves
16:15-17:00 Raymond Laflamme Eulogy (led by Jorma Louko)
Thursday, 11 December 2025
09:30-10:15 Fay Dowker: Stephen Hawking’s Influence on Causal Set Quantum Gravity (Zoom)
10:15-11:00 Jorma Louko: Waiting around for Unruh
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Bruce Allen: Pulsar Timing Arrays
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Paul Shellard: Stochastic Inflation
14:15-15:00 Chris Hunter: Quantitative Finance
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:15 Bernard Carr: Stephen and the Golden Age of Spacetime
19:30 Joint Dinner at Restaurant „Schorse im Leineschloss“ (Hannah-Arendt-Platz 1)
21:00 After-dinner talk on “Hannover – The Personal Union: One Ruler, Two States” by Hugh Pierson, Deputy Chairman of the Hanovarian-British Society
Friday, 12 December 2025
09:30-10:15 James Sparks: Nuts and Bolts
10:15-11:00 Simon Ross: Multiparty Entanglement and Holography
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Daksh Lohiya: Exploring Alternative Theories
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:45
13:45-15:00 Thomas Hertog: Observer-centric Quantum Cosmology
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:15 Chris Prior: A Career in Particle Accelerators
16:15-17:00 Julian Luttrell: Hawking, a Brief History of
Saturday, 13 December 2025
09:30-10:15 Chris Pope: Black Hole Perturbations and Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
10:15-11:00 Bernard Whiting: An Intriguing New Look at Kerr Thermodynamics
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Marika Taylor: Asymptotic Fluxes in Holography (Zoom)
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Ricardo Monteiro: Gravity and Amplitudes
14:15-15:00 Justin Hayward: Decision Theory with Bayes
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:15 Alex Lyons: Solid Modelling
16:15-17:00 Chris Hunter: Stephen Hawking and Wagner
Sunday, 14 December 2025
09:30-10:30 Raphael Bousso: Firewalls vs. Information Loss, or Stephen vs. Stephen
10:30-11:15 Rob Caldwell: Dark Energy
11:15-11:45 Break
11:45-12:15 Oisín Mac Conamhna: Extreme Phenomena of the Northeast Atlantic
12:15-13:00 Zhong-Chao Wu: Stephen Hawking in China
13:00-14:00 Lunch
This is a very provisional schedule, which may still change a number of times. If you have any suggestions or requests for changes, please contact Ian Moss, who is overseeing the program:
Ian Moss
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Note on recordings:
We plan to record the talks on video, provided that the speakers agree.