Mathematical, Physical and Conceptual aspects of Quantum Gravity
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011 (13:00)
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Friday, 25 March 2011 (18:20)
Monday, 21 March 2011
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
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Room: Black hole entropy, loop gravity, and polymer physics.
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Room: Some phenomenological aspects of loop quantum cosmology.
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Room: Quantum field theory and gravity in a fractal universe.
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Room: Creating quantum fields in curved spacetimes in the lab.
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Thursday, 24 March 2011
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Room: Two-point functions in (loop) quantum cosmology.
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Room: Ingomogeneous quantum cosmology: the Gowdy T^3 model in the presence of matter.
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Room: Quantum theory and beyond - An approach from topos theory.
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Room: The functorial approach to the EPR quantization, and the categorical reinterpretation of space-time.
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Room: State sum invariant from a 2-category.
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Room: The logic of causality for observers inside the universe.
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Room: Some Problem of Time Approaches and a suitable toy model for them.
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Friday, 25 March 2011
09:30
09:30 - 10:10
Room: Does time differs from change ? Philosophical insight on the problem of time in quantum gravity.
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10:10 - 10:50
Room: Conceptual aspects of infinities in quantum gravity.
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Room: Overview of the Penrose twistorian program.
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14:00 - 14:40
Room: Structure of the WdW equation, transitions amplitudes in QC, and status of probabilistic interpretation.
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Room: Is time necessarily flowing?
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Room: Aspects of space-time thermodynamics.
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Room: Quantum gravity. II: the conceptual structure
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Room: Is temperature the speed of time
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