Loops and spinfoams - Scientific Program
q&d = Questions and discussion
Monday, May 3rd: Loop quantum gravity
am
- 8h45-9h00 Opening remarks
- 9h00-9h30 A. Ashtekar
(Quantum geometry)
- 9h30-10h00 T. Thiemann
(Dynamics and low energy)
- 10h00-10h30 q&d
- 10h30-11h00 break
- 11h00-11h30 L. Smolin
(Overall results)
- 11h30-11h45 T. Jacobson, as devil's advocate
(Some questions to loop quantum gravity)
- 11h45-12h30 q&d
pm
- 14h00-14h20 L. Doplicher
(Propagation kernel techniques for loop quantum gravity)
- 14h20-14h30 q&d
- 14h30-14h50 W . Fairbairn
(Separable Hilbert space in loop quantum
gravity)
- 14h50-15h00 q&d
- 15h00-15h20 J. Lewandowski (Quantum
group deformations of the holonomy-flux algebra)
- 15h20-15h30 q&d
- 15h30-16h00 break
- 16h00-16h20 B. Dittrich
(Master constraint program for loop quantum gravity)
- 16h20-16h30 q&d
- 16h30-16h50 J. Pullin (Consistent
discretization)
- 16h50-17h00 q&d
- 17h00-17h20 S. Alexandrov (Lorentz
covariant loop quantum gravity)
- 17h20-17h30 q&d
- 17h30-17h50 H. Salhmann (Uniqueness
of the Ashtekar-Isham-Lewandowski representation)
- 17h50-18h00 q&d
18:00 Welcome
cocktail
Tuesday, May 4th: Spinfoam formalism
am
- 9h00-9h30 J. Baez
(Spinfoams)
- 9h30-10h00 L. Freidel (Group
field theory and sum over 2-complexes)
- 10h00-10h30 q&d
- 10h30-11h00 break
- 11h00-11h30 J. Barrett (BC
models)
- 11h30-12h00 R. Loll (Dynamical
triangulations)
- 12h00-12h30 q&d
pm
- 14h00-14h20 A. Perez (Spin-foam representation
of the physical scalar product in 2+1 gravity)
- 14h20-14h30 q&d
- 14h30-14h50 R. Oeckl (Boundary formulation
of quantum mechanics and application to spin foams)
- 14h50-15h00 q&d
- 15h00-15h20 A. Starodubtsev (Definition
of particles in 4d quantum gravity)
- 15h20-15h30 q&d
- 15h30-16h00 break
- 16h00-16h20 F. Markopoulou (Quantum
information theory and particles in spinfoam)
- 16h20-16h30 q&d
- 16h30-17h50 E. Livine (Instantons
in GFT and continuum limit)
- 16h50-17h00 q&d
- 17h00-17h30 H. Pfeiffer
(Quantum gravity smooth manifold and triangulation)
- 17h20-17h30 q&d
18:30 Campus
Colloquium (open to external participation)
A Ashtekar (Space and
Time: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond)
Location: CPPM
20:00: Lunar eclipses
Wednesday, May 5th: Miscellaneous
am
- 9h00- 9h20 T. Jacobson (Mode
creation: quantum field theory on a growing lattice)
- 9h20-9h40 L. Bombelli
(Statistical framework for the continuum approximation to quantum
gravity)
- 9h40-10h00 q&d
- 10h00-10h20 R. Gambini (Relational
time in consistent discrete quantum gravity)
- 10h20-10h30 q&d
- 10h30-10h50 G. Mena Marugan (Perturbative
and nonperturbative cylindrical gravity)
- 10h50-11h00 q&d
- 11h00-11h20 break
- 11h20-11h40 O. Winkler
(Singularity avoidance or how compact is the world?)
- 11h40-11h50 q&d
- 11h50-12h10 J. Swain (Spin-Networks and Approximations
of Diffeomorphism Groups)
- 12h10-12h20 q&d
- 12h20-12h40 E. Buffenoir
(Quantum radar time in 2+1 dimensions)
- 12h40-12h50 q&d
pm
Walk in the Calanques
Thursday, May 6th: Applications of loop quantum gravity,
cosmology, black holes and quasinormal modes
am
- 9h00-9h30 M. Bojowald
(Loop cosmology)
- 9h30-9h45 q&d
- 9h45-10h15 D. Sudarsky
(Phenomenology)
- 10h15-10h30 q&d
- 10h30-11h00 break
- 11h00-11h30 A. Corichi (Black holes)
- 11h30-12h00 K. Krasnov (Quasi normal
modes of black holes)
- 12h00-12h30 q&d
pm
- 14h00-14h20 O. Dreyer
(Quasinormal modes)
- 14h20-14h40 P. Forgacs (Quasi
normal modes of the t'Hooft-Polyakov monopole)
- 14h40-15h00 q&d
- 15h00-15h20 K. Noui
(Hamiltonian analysis in Plebansky theory)
- 15h20-15h30 q&d
- 15h30-16h00 break
- 16h00-16h20 S. Parampreet (Some applications
of loop cosmology)
- 16h20-16h40 K. Vandersloot (A
path integral representation of loop quantum cosmology)
- 16h40-17h00 q&d
- 17h00-17h20 S. Major (Observations
on a lorentzian model)
- 17h20-17h40 q&d
- 17h40-18h00 P. Majumdar (Universal
canonical black hole entropy)
- 18h20-18h30 q&d
Friday, May 7th
am: Related approaches
- 9h00-9h30 M. Niedermaier (Asymptotic
safety)
- 9h30-9h50 R. Percacci (Is
Newton's constant essential?)
- 9h50-10h10 q&d
- 10h10-10h30 break
- 10h30-11h00 J. Klauder (Affine Quantum
Gravity: An All-Scale Theory)
- 11h00-11h10 q&d
- 11h10-11h30 D. Minic (Modification of quantum mechanics
and quantum gravity)
- 11h30-11h40 q&d
- 11h40-12h00 J. Kowalski Gliksman :
(DSR as a possible limit of quantum gravity)
- 12h00-12h20 F. Girelli (Special
Relativity as a non commutative geometry: Lessons)
- 12h20-12h30 q&d
pm
- 15h30-17h00 Panel and general discussion
- 17h00 Conclusion
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