Mathematical, Physical and Conceptual aspects of Quantum Gravity

from Wednesday, 23 March 2011 (13:00) to Friday, 25 March 2011 (18:20)
Laboratoire APC, University Paris 7 (454A - Klee, 4th floor)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Mar 2011
24 Mar 2011
25 Mar 2011
AM
09:30
Dario Benedetti (until 10:10) ()
10:10
Steffen Gielen (until 10:50) (Two-point functions in (loop) quantum cosmology.)
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Mercedes Martín Benito (until 11:50) (Ingomogeneous quantum cosmology: the Gowdy T^3 model in the presence of matter.)
11:50
Discussion session (until 12:30) ()
09:30
Alexis de Saint-Ours (until 10:10) (Does time differs from change ? Philosophical insight on the problem of time in quantum gravity.)
10:10
Nazim Bouatta (until 10:50) (Conceptual aspects of infinities in quantum gravity.)
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (until 11:50) (Overview of the Penrose twistorian program.)
11:50
Discussion session (until 12:30) ()
PM
14:40
Eugenio Bianchi (until 15:20) (Black hole entropy, loop gravity, and polymer physics.)
15:20
Aurélien Barrau (until 16:00) (Some phenomenological aspects of loop quantum cosmology.)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Gianluca Calcagni (until 17:00) (Quantum field theory and gravity in a fractal universe.)
17:00
Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz (until 17:40) (Creating quantum fields in curved spacetimes in the lab.)
17:40
Discussion session (until 18:20) ()
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Andreas Doering (until 14:40) (Quantum theory and beyond - An approach from topos theory.)
14:40
Louis Crane (until 15:20) (The functorial approach to the EPR quantization, and the categorical reinterpretation of space-time.)
15:20
Aristide Baratin (until 16:00) (State sum invariant from a 2-category.)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Fotini Markopoulou (until 17:00) (The logic of causality for observers inside the universe.)
17:00
Edward Anderson (until 17:40) (Some Problem of Time Approaches and a suitable toy model for them.)
17:40
Discussion session (until 18:20) ()
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Renaud Parentani (until 14:40) (Structure of the WdW equation, transitions amplitudes in QC, and status of probabilistic interpretation.)
14:40
Pierre Martinetti (until 15:20) (Is time necessarily flowing?)
15:20
Lorenzo Sindoni (until 16:00) (Aspects of space-time thermodynamics.)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Carlo Rovelli (until 17:00) (Quantum gravity. II: the conceptual structure)
17:00
Matteo Smerlak (until 17:40) (Is temperature the speed of time)
17:40
Discussion session (until 18:20) ()