Loops'24 International Conference on Quantum Gravity

from Monday 6 May 2024 (04:00) to Friday 10 May 2024 (19:30)
Broward County Main Library Auditorium

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 May 2024
7 May 2024
8 May 2024
9 May 2024
10 May 2024
AM
09:00 Canonical Quantum Gravity Dynamics - Thomas Thiemann (FAU Erlangen)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:40 The Hilbert Space of de Sitter Quantum Gravity - Suvrat Raju (ICTS - Bengaluru)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Complex Critical Point Methods - Dongxue Qu (PI - Waterloo)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
11:30 sl2cfoam-next: New developments and applications - Pietro Dona (CPT - Marseille)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:00 Shell Crossings and Shocks during Gravitational Collapse in Effective LQG - Viqar Hussain (UNB - New Brunswick)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:40 Dust Collapse in Effective LQG: Fate of Shocks and Covariance - Hongguang Liu (FAU - Erlangen)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder & Swiss Cheese Model - Cong Zhang (FAU - Erlangen)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
11:30 Horizons and Null Infinity - Abhay Ashtekar (PennState)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:00 Physics of Loop Quantum Cosmology: New Answers to Old Questions - Parampreet Singh (LSU)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:40 Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology - Edward Wilson-Ewing (University of New Brunswick)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 Corner Symmetry and Quantum Geometry - Marc Geiller   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
11:30 Entanglement aspects of Hawking radiation in evaporating black hole - Beatriz Elizaga de Navascues   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:00 Gravitational Path Integral and Entropy - Eugenia Colafranceschi   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:40 Effective Spin Foams - Seth Asante (UNI - Jena)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 A finite and computable spinfoam model with cosmological constant - Qiaoyin Pan (FAU - Florida)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
11:30 Group Field Theory and Spin Foam Renormalization - Andreas Pithis (LMU - München)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:00 Isolated Horizons - Wojciech Kaminski (University of Warsaw)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
09:40 Towards covariant LQG 2.0 - Florian Girelli (University of Waterloo)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50 CANCELLED - Phenomenology of Modified Loop Quantum Cosmological Models - Baofei Li   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
11:30 Quantum Geometry of the Light Cone - Wolfgang Wieland (FAU - Erlangen)   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
PM
12:10 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Canonical LQG (until 16:00) (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:00 Pullin vacuum - Jerzy Lewandowski   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:15 Towards canonical LQG with neural networks: From the basics to 3d gravity in Smolin’s weak coupling limit - Hanno Sahlmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU))   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:30 Relating Canonical and Covariant Hamiltonian frameworks - Alejandro Corichi (UNAM, Mexico)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:45 Asymptotic safety and canonical quantum gravity - Renata Ferrero (FAU - Erlangen)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:00 Fermions in LQG - Federica Fragomeno (University of Alberta)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:15 Symmetry charges on reduced phase space and BMS algebra - Hongwei Tan (FAU - Florida)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:30 Effective LTB: from dust collapses to regular black holes - Stefan Weigl (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:00
Covariant LQG (until 16:00) (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:00 What configurations should we sum over in the Lorentzian gravitational path integral? - Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:15 Progresses in Spinfoam Cosmology - Francesca Vidotto (The University of Western Ontario)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:30 Spinfoam: Bulk from Boundary - Etera LIVINE (CNRS)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:45 Tunneling of quantum geometries in spinfoams - Hal Haggard (Bard College)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:00 New algorithms for computing spin foam amplitudes - Sebastian Steinhaus (FSU Jena)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:15 Loop Quantum Gravity, Permutation Symmetry and Entanglement - Eugenio Bianchi (PennState)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:30 Stabilizer entropy of quantum tetrahedra - Goffredo Chirco (Università di Napoli Federico II)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:45 Landscape of 4D spinfoam quantum geomoetry: Results from next-to-leading order spinfoam large-$j$ asymptotics of 1-5 Pachner move - Haida Li (South China University of Technology)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Black Holes (until 18:00) (FAU FTL Room 131)
16:30 Higher order black hole perturbations - Jonas Neuser (FAU - Erlangen)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
16:45 Nonsingular spherical black holes with holonomy corrections - Asier Alonso-Bardaji   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:00 Revisiting quantum black holes from effective loop quantum gravity #21 - Geeth Chandra Ongole (Baylor)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:15 Quantization of a black hole interior model in Loop Quantum Cosmology - Andrés Mínguez-Sánchez (CSIC)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:30 Effective loop quantum gravity black holes: A covariant, improved-dynamics scheme - Idrus Belfaqih (The University of Edinburgh)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:45 Spherically-Symmetric Gravity on a Graph - Jorden Roberts (University of Alberta)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
16:30
Covariant LQG (until 18:15) (FAU FTL Room 312)
16:30 Generative Flow Networks in Spin Foam Cosmology - Athanasios Kogios (Perimeter Institute/University of Waterloo)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
16:45 Spinfoams, $\gamma$-duality and Parity Violation in the Primordial Universe - Monica Rincon Ramirez (Pennsylvania State University)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:00 Quantization of Constantly Curved Tetrahedron - Chen Hung Hsiao (FAU - Florida)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:15 A new 2+1 coherent spin-foam vertex for quantum gravity - Jose Diogo Simao (FSU Jena)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:30 Area metric actions and the Barbero-Immirzi parameter - Johanna Borissova (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:45 De Sitter horizon entropy from a simplicial Lorentzian path integral - José de Jesús Padua Argüelles (Perimeter Institute)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
18:00 Matter coupled to 3d Quantum Gravity: One-loop Unitarity - Valentine MARIS (LPENSL)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
12:10 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Black Holes (until 16:00) (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:00 Primordial Black Holes and Loop Quantum Gravity - Francesca Vidotto (Western University, Canada)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:15 Spherical collapse and black hole evaporation - Madhavan Varadarajan   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:30 Axial perturbations in Kantowski-Sachs spacetimes - GUILLERMO ANTONIO MENA MARUGAN (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:45 Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of a massless scalar field in Kantowski-Sachs spacetime and its Hamiltonian. - Alvaro Torres-Caballeros (CSIC)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:00 Geometry of the black-to-white hole transition - Farshid Soltani (Western University)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:15 The role of discreteness in the black hole information puzzle: insights from a quantum gravity toy model - Sami VIOLLET   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:30 Dynamical symmetries for cosmologies and black holes - Francesco Sartini (OIST)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:45 The white holes predicted by LQG could be dark matter - Carlo Rovelli   (FAU FTL Room 131)
14:00
Cosmology (until 16:00) (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:00 Emergent dark energy from loop quantum cosmology - Yongge Ma (Beijing Normal University)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:15 Hydrodynamics on minisuperspace: connecting quantum gravity and cosmology - Daniele Oriti (Universidad Complutense Madrid)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:30 Inflationary and pre-inflationary scalar perturbations on closed universes in loop quantum cosmology - Nelson Yokomizo (Federal University of Minas Gerais)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:45 Uniform Asymptotic Approximation Method with Pöschl–Teller Potential - Rui Pan (Baylor)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:00 Universal properties of the universe in modified loop quantum cosmologies - Jamal Saeed (Baylor) Mr Christian Brown (Baylor University)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:15 Angular power spectrum from different regularizations in LQC - meysam motaharfar (Louisiana State University)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:30 Investigating Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantized Bianchi-IX Spacetimes: Ekpyrotic Potentials - Rachel Brown (Louisiana State University)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Black Holes (until 18:15) (FAU FTL Room 131)
16:30 Shell-crossing singularities/ shock waves in effective Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi collapse - Francesco Fazzini (University of New Brunswick)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
16:45 Status of Birkhoff's theorem in polymerized semiclassical regime of Loop Quantum Gravity - Luca Cafaro (University of Warsaw)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:00 Diffue emission from black hole remnants - Mateo Pascual Gomez-Cuetara   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:15 Diffeomorphism covariance and the quantum Schwarzschild interior - Rafael Guolo Dias (Florida Atlantic University)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:30 Temporary horizons: the life and times of a quantum black hole - Samantha hergott (York University / Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
17:45 Full spacetime of a minimal uncertainty quantum black hole - Evan Vienneau (University of Alberta)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
18:00 Thermodynamics from entanglement in quantum field theory and black holes - Erick Muino Garcia (Penn State University)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
16:30
Cosmology (until 18:15) (FAU FTL Room 312)
16:30 Semiclassical geometrodynamics of homogeneous cosmology - Muhammad Muzammil (University of New Brunswick)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
16:45 Bouncing cosmology from LQC with ekpyrotic and matter fields - Emmanuel Frion (University of Western Ontario, Physics and Astronomy)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:00 The Bounce in the Bianchi models as a quantum scattering - Eleonora Giovannetti (CPT Marseille)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:15 Precision cosmology as a probe of quantum gravity - Mauricio Gamonal San Martin   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:30 The central role of Gauss constraint across LQC and LQG - Matteo Bruno   (FAU FTL Room 312)
17:45 Post-Newtonian gravitational waves with cosmological constant derived from Einstein-Hilbert action - Ricardo Escobedo (Universidad de Guadalajara)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
18:00 Diffusive effects of Planckian discreteness: the thermal bath of quantum-gravity defects - Pietro Pellecchia (UNINA)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
12:10 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Free Afternoon / World Cup ---
12:10 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Black holes panel   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
14:55 --- Walk from Broward Library to FAU FTL ---
15:10
Cosmology, Black Holes, and other applications/phenomenology (until 16:25) (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:10 Black hole as a semi-classical configuration with maximum entropy - Yuki Yokokura (RIKEN, Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:25 Scalar cosmological perturbations from quantum-gravitational entanglement - Luca Marchetti (University of New Brunswick)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:40 Timelike building blocks in quantum cosmology - Alexander Jercher (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:55 Poincare symmetries for 4D gravity and spin networks - Simon Langenscheidt (LMU München, MCQST)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
16:10 Purification of Hawking radiation: messages from a moving mirror analogue - Paula Calizaya Cabrera (Louisiana State University)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:10
Quantum Foundations and QG (until 16:25) (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:10 Understanding gravitationally induced decoherence parameters in neutrino oscillations using a microscopic quantum mechanical model - Kristina Giesel   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:25 Entanglement in quantum field theory: lessons from Minkowski and de Sitter space - Ivan Agullo (Louisiana State University)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:40 Quantum Reference Frames and the Localisation of Events in Superpositions of Spacetimes - Viktoria Kabel (IQOQI Vienna)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
15:55 Motivating semiclassical gravity: a classical-quantum approximation for bipartite quantum systems - Irfan Javed (University of New Brunswick)   (FAU FTL Room 131)
16:10 The problems of time, normalizability and classical limit in canonical quantum gravity: A pilot-wave approach - Indrajit Sen   (FAU FTL Room 131)
12:10 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Boundaries, Symmetries, and Classical aspects (until 15:45) ()
14:00 Charges and fluxes of the gravitational field: conformally invariant approach valid for non zero cosmological constant - JERZY LEWANDOWSKI (Uniwersytet Warszawski)   ()
14:15 Geometry, Dynamics, and Phase Space of Carrollian Stretched Horizons - Puttarak Jai-akson (RIKEN iTHEMS)   ()
14:30 A New Criterion for Angular Momentum at Null Infinity - Daniel Paraizo (Penn State)   ()
14:45 Quantum Gravity at the Null Asymptote - Samarth Khandelwal   ()
15:00 General covariance and dynamics with a Gauss law - Hassan Mehmood (University of New Brunswick)   ()
15:15 Deformed Spheres in General Relativity - Khalid Saifullah   ()
15:30 A Chern-Simons approach to self-dual gravity in (2+1)-dimensions and quantisation of Poisson structure - Prince Osei (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana)   ()
14:00
Foundation of Quantum Gravity (until 15:45) (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:00 Revisiting the quantum polyhedron - Maite Dupuis   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:15 Dynamical frames, relational subsystems and gauge-invariant entanglement entropy - Fabio Maria Mele (University of Western Ontario)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:30 Revisiting loop quantum gravity with selfdual variables - Hanno Sahlmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
14:45 Coupling of matter to gravity using higher gauge theory - Marko Vojinovic   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:00 Graph-changing vertex evolution and volume expectation-value computation - Thiago Lucena de Macedo Guedes (Forschungszentrum Jülich)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:15 Quantum Properties and Gravitational Field of a Proper Time Oscillator - Hou Yau (SFSU)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:30 Anomalous diffusion and factor ordering in (1+1)-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity - Rachel Maitra (Wentworth Institute of Technology)   (FAU FTL Room 312)
15:45 --- Walk FAU FTL to Broward Library ---
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:20 Summary and Outlook Panel   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)
17:15 Concluding Remarks - Abhay Ashtekar   (Broward County Main Library Auditorium)