Ivan Agullo
March 2025
Joint APS March and April Meeting in Anaheim (California)
The annual meeting of the American Physical Society took place in Anaheim, California, from 16 to 21 March 2025. The event celebrated the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Loop Quantum Gravity was prominently represented.
There was an invited session on quantum gravity composed of three talks, by Abhay Ashtekar, Bianca Dittrich, and Ivan Agullo. The session was titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Gravity” and was aimed at non-experts, providing an opportunity to promote Loop Quantum Gravity to the broader scientific community in North America.
The titles of the talks were:
“Perspectives on the Evolution of Quantum Gravity” by Abhay Ashtekar,
“Status of Quantum Gravity” by Bianca Dittrich,
“A Beginner’s Guide to Black Hole Information” by Ivan Agullo.
The session was extraordinarily well-attended — the room was completely packed, with dozens of people standing at the back due to the unavailability of chairs.The parallel sessions “Quantum Gravity I” and “Quantum Gravity II” featured additional talks on Loop Quantum Gravity. In particular, Anzhong Wang presented on loop quantum cosmology, and Seth Major discussed black holes in LQG.