Resolving the deep conflict between the principles of gravity and quantum mechanics—and more generally, developing a theory of “quantum gravity”—is a major open question in theoretical physics. By building on and extending one another’s research, IAS scholars past and present have made substantial progress in this area, generating insights that continue to influence research.
“From Qubits to Spacetime,” the title of 2018's Prospects in
Theoretical Physics program, took place from July 16–27, 2018, and
covered topics ranging from the connections between quantum
information and the structure of spacetime, to how...
