Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity 2026 (QIQG 2026)

Organizer:Bartek Czech, Janet Hung, Cheng Peng, Wei Song, Huajia Wang, Qiang Wen, Zhenbin Yang, Yang Zhou

The conference will be held at Tsinghua University from June 29 to July 3, 2026.


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Building on the discussions of QIQG 2025, QIQG 2026 will propel the dialogue into a new era of further synthesis of ideas in quantum information theory and quantum gravity and their applications. We will convene leading theorists, mathematical physicists, and quantum computational scientists to share breakthroughs of this profound convergence. The program will cover topics on:

1. Holography, Entanglement, and the Emergent Spacetime

2. Classical and Quantum aspects of black hole

3.Quantum Information, Quantum Cryptography and their implications

4. Solvable Models: SYK, JT Gravity, and Liouville Theory

5. Computational Complexity and Holography

6. Mathematical Structures in Quantum Gravity

7. Cosmology and de Sitter Space in Holography

8.Experimental probe of the quantum nature of gravity


The Organizers of QIQG 2026

Bartek Czech (Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University)

Janet Hung (Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University)

Cheng Peng (Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Wei Song (Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University)

Huajia Wang (Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Qiang Wen (S-T Yau Center, Southeast University)

Zhenbin Yang (Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University)

Yang Zhou (Fudan University)


Speaker / Invitation accepted

Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania)

Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)

Pawel Caputa (Stockholm University)

Horacio Casini (CONICET & Centro Atómico Bariloche)

Chi-Ming Chang张其明 (Tsinghua University)

Bin Chen 陈斌 (Ningbo University)

Yiming Chen 陈一鸣* (Stanford University)

Frank Ferrari (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Abhijit Gadde (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Ping Gao高苹 (UCAS)

Matt Headrick (Brandeis University)

Daniel Jafferis (Harvard University)

Issac Kim (University of California, Davis)

Wei Li 李微 (CAS)

Chaoyang Lu 陆朝阳 (USTC)

Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study)

Alexey Milekhin (University of Kentucky)

Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Vladimir Narovlansky (Princeton University)

Xiaoliang Qi 祁晓亮 (Stanford University)

Renato Renner (ETH Zurich)

Shanming Ruan 阮善明 (Peking University)

Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam (Stanford University)

Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto University)

Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)

Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study)

Beni Yoshida (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Hui Zhai 翟荟 (Tsinghua University)

Pengfei Zhang 张鹏飞 (Fudan University)


*To be confirmed