Mathematical, Physical and Conceptual aspects of Quantum Gravity

from Wednesday, March 23, 2011 (1:00 PM) to Friday, March 25, 2011 (6:20 PM)
Laboratoire APC, University Paris 7 (454A - Klee, 4th floor)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 23, 2011
Mar 24, 2011
Mar 25, 2011
AM
9:30 AM
Dario Benedetti (until 10:10 AM)
10:10 AM
Steffen Gielen (until 10:50 AM) (Two-point functions in (loop) quantum cosmology.)
10:50 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Mercedes Martín Benito (until 11:50 AM) (Ingomogeneous quantum cosmology: the Gowdy T^3 model in the presence of matter.)
11:50 AM
Discussion session (until 12:30 PM)
9:30 AM
Alexis de Saint-Ours (until 10:10 AM) (Does time differs from change ? Philosophical insight on the problem of time in quantum gravity.)
10:10 AM
Nazim Bouatta (until 10:50 AM) (Conceptual aspects of infinities in quantum gravity.)
10:50 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (until 11:50 AM) (Overview of the Penrose twistorian program.)
11:50 AM
Discussion session (until 12:30 PM)
PM
2:40 PM
Eugenio Bianchi (until 3:20 PM) (Black hole entropy, loop gravity, and polymer physics.)
3:20 PM
Aurélien Barrau (until 4:00 PM) (Some phenomenological aspects of loop quantum cosmology.)
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
Gianluca Calcagni (until 5:00 PM) (Quantum field theory and gravity in a fractal universe.)
5:00 PM
Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz (until 5:40 PM) (Creating quantum fields in curved spacetimes in the lab.)
5:40 PM
Discussion session (until 6:20 PM)
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Andreas Doering (until 2:40 PM) (Quantum theory and beyond - An approach from topos theory.)
2:40 PM
Louis Crane (until 3:20 PM) (The functorial approach to the EPR quantization, and the categorical reinterpretation of space-time.)
3:20 PM
Aristide Baratin (until 4:00 PM) (State sum invariant from a 2-category.)
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
Fotini Markopoulou (until 5:00 PM) (The logic of causality for observers inside the universe.)
5:00 PM
Edward Anderson (until 5:40 PM) (Some Problem of Time Approaches and a suitable toy model for them.)
5:40 PM
Discussion session (until 6:20 PM)
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Renaud Parentani (until 2:40 PM) (Structure of the WdW equation, transitions amplitudes in QC, and status of probabilistic interpretation.)
2:40 PM
Pierre Martinetti (until 3:20 PM) (Is time necessarily flowing?)
3:20 PM
Lorenzo Sindoni (until 4:00 PM) (Aspects of space-time thermodynamics.)
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
Carlo Rovelli (until 5:00 PM) (Quantum gravity. II: the conceptual structure)
5:00 PM
Matteo Smerlak (until 5:40 PM) (Is temperature the speed of time)
5:40 PM
Discussion session (until 6:20 PM)