Thankful to have been on this list! I graduated in May, so you should give my spot to a current grad student. (Any chance there's a postdoc list going...?)

This was recently recommended to me! I haven't gotten around to it yet, but it's on my list

Possibly! This would certainly allow us to add a baby universe to a holographic map for de Sitter by allowing for post-selection. It would be interesting to construct a model like Antonini-Sasieta-Swingle and Antonini-Rath for de Sitter + baby!

Oh no! What have we done!?

I think so! I included success kid in the post, but not the paper.

But maybe it's also computationally difficult to determine if the post contains a meme...

It’s been a great time so far! I’m especially looking forward to next week’s lectures.

Congrats! See you in Boulder this summer!

Either approach (HUZ's or ours) can be used to include observers in generic holographic maps for both open and closed universes in any dimension. I'm excited about the possibilities both proposals open up for studying observers in holographic maps! (9/9)

Our approach: remove the part of the holographic map that acts on the observer. Thus the new non-trivial Hilbert space is given by the observer's Hilbert space AND the area of the boundary separating them from the rest of the universe. (8/9)

No such holographic code has been proposed to match AAIL's rules for including an observer. We do just that! This allows a more thorough comparison between the two different approaches. (7/9)

Their approach: clone the observer to a non-gravitational reference outside the closed universe. Thus the new non-trivial Hilbert space is given by the observer's Hilbert space. (6/9)

HUZ also describes how their method can be used to include an observer in a non-isometric holographic map describing the closed universe. They show that this reproduces their results from the gravitational path integral. (5/9)