Upcoming Events

Further Events in 2026​​​
 

• LQG Summer School
  11–22 May 2026, Yangzhou, China
  indico.global/event/15268

  • ​Overview: The primary objective of the Loops'26 summer school is to provide students in the area of quantum gravity with an up-to-date introduction to the fundamentals of canonical and covariant loop quantum gravity (LQG), quantum black holes, and cosmology, with an emphasis on the numerous novel results achieved within the field over the past years. It will take place from 10–22 May 2026, at Yangzhou, China, hosted by Yangzhou University.

  • Registration deadline: 31 March 2026

  • Local organizing committee: Xiaomei Kuang (chair), Yungui Gong (co-chair), Jianpin Wu (co-chair), Wencong Gan, Gaoping Long, Puxun Wu, Jinsong Yang, Xiangdong Zhang, Tao Zhu
     

• Loops'26,
  25–29 May 2026, Hangzhou, China
  indico.global/event/14381

  • ​Overview: The upcoming event, Loops'26, is one of the consecutive conferences with a long history focusing on diverse aspects of loop quantum gravity, which, along with the annual seminar for loop quantum gravity, will take place from 24–29 May 2026, at Hangzhou, China, hosted by Zhejiang University of Technology. The conference is aimed at the most recent updates on both theoretical and phenomenological aspects of loop quantum gravity, which mainly include canonical loop quantum gravity, covariant loop quantum gravity as well as various approaches to the applications to black hole and cosmological spacetimes.

  • Registration deadline: 31 March 2026

  • Local organizing committee: Tao Zhu (Chair), Bao-Fei Li (co-chair), Qiang Wu (co-chair), You Ding, Yungui Gong, Xiaomei Kuang, Hongguang Liu, Qiyuan Pan, Cong Zhang
     

• IASM-BIRS workshop on “Recent Development of Quantum Gravity and Applications to Cosmology and Black Hole Physics”
  Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM)
  31 May–5 June 2026, Hangzhou, China
  www.iasm.zju.edu.cn/iasm/main.htm

  • ​Format: BIRS workshops are held in hybrid format. Registration for online participation is open (up to a maximal number of fifty participants). Registration for in-person participation and talk submissions is closed.

  • Overview: The dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy and direct black hole imaging via the Event Horizon Telescope has opened unprecedented windows into strong-gravity regimes. These breakthroughs provide a unique opportunity to test foundational theories – from black hole models like remnants, fuzzballs, and firewalls to quantum gravity frameworks like Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), which resolve cosmological and black hole singularities. This timely workshop will bring together leading theorists and experimentalists to​​​

    • discuss recent developments in quantum gravity,

    • explore applications to cosmology and black hole phenomenology,

    • formulate future strategies to test theoretical predictions against current and forthcoming data from GW observatories and VLBI instruments like the EHT,

    • address the profound challenge of reconciling quantum mechanics with general relativity.​​

  • More information: www.birs.ca/events/2026/5-day-workshops/26w5588​​

  • Registration for online participation: forms.gle/VqxpQxzhQBaBpkyS9
    Please fill in the form by 15 April 2026. If you encounter any issue, feel free to contact: 
    Leila Graef (leilagraef@id.uff.br) and 
    Kristina Giesel (kristina.giesel@fau.de)

  • Local organizing committee: Anzhong Wang, Rong-Gen Cai, Kristina Giesel, Leila Graef
     

• WOST School 2026 — Exploring Quantum WithOut SpaceTime
  31 August–11 September, 2026, Les Houches, France
  withoutspacetime.org/meetings/les-houches-school

  • ​Overview: The WOST School 2026 introduces early-career researchers to the rapidly developing interface between quantum gravity and quantum information, two fields that have recently begun to converge in surprising and productive ways. In particular, loop quantum gravity provide a natural framework where structures such as spin network states and their evolution can dialogue with the language of quantum information. Participants will explore how quantum-information tools are reshaping our understanding of spacetime—through concepts such as quantum reference frames, quantum clocks, indefinite causal order, and related informational approaches. This will shed new light on gravitational phenomena ranging from black-hole physics to early-universe cosmology, while also learning how emerging table-top experiments may probe quantum-gravity–inspired phenomena such as gravity-mediated entanglement, aiming at testing the quantum nature of gravity. Supported by the international WOST collaboration, the school aims to transmit a growing body of interdisciplinary knowledge not yet part of standard graduate curricula, foster connections across theoretical, experimental, and philosophical perspectives, and cultivate a diverse cohort of young scientists prepared to contribute to this evolving research frontier.

  • Local organizing committee: Ivan Agullo, Pablo Arrighi, Eugenio Bianchi, Lin-Qing Chen, Beatriz Elizaga de Navascués, Lucas Hackl, Augustin Vanrietvelde

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