Quantum Gravity in Paris

from Monday, March 26, 2012 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, March 29, 2012 (6:30 PM)
LPT Orsay (26th, 27th, 28th) and APC Paris 7 (29th)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 26, 2012
Mar 27, 2012
Mar 28, 2012
Mar 29, 2012
AM
9:45 AM Vincent Rivasseau   (Welcome address)
10:00 AM Costas Bachas   (On the localization of gravity in string theory)
10:50 AM Carlo Rovelli   (Surprises in discretizing general-covariant systems)
11:40 AM --- Discussion ---
10:00 AM Petr Hořava   (Quantum gravity with anisotropic scaling and the multicritical universe)
10:50 AM Renaud Parentani   (Black hole lasers in Bose condensates and in Horava gravity)
11:40 AM --- Discussion ---
10:00 AM Thibaud Damour   (The gravity/coset conjecture and a possible algebraic description of emergent space)
10:50 AM Joseph Ben Geloun   (Renormalizable tensor field theories)
11:40 AM --- Discussion ---
10:00 AM Aurélien Barrau   (Loop quantum cosmology: a phenomenological perspective)
10:50 AM Christos Charmousis   (Self-tuning and the cosmological constant problem)
11:40 AM --- Discussion ---
PM
12:20 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Pierre Vanhove   (The ultraviolet behaviour of N=4 and N=8 supergravity)
2:50 PM Daniele Oriti   (The quantum geometry of group field theories)
3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Emmanuel Guitter   (Distance statistics in random maps)
4:50 PM Dario Benedetti   (The local potential approximation in quantum gravity)
5:40 PM --- Discussion ---
12:20 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Bianca Dittrich   (Why spin foams are lattice gauge theories and why not)
2:50 PM Simone Speziale   (Twistor networks and spin foams)
3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Aristide Baratin   (State sum over geometries from a 2-category)
4:50 PM Razvan Gurau   (The large N limit of tensor models)
5:40 PM --- Discussion ---
12:20 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Sergei Alexandrov   (Twistor approach to string compactifications)
2:50 PM Valentin Bonzom   (Universality classes of random triangulations via tensor models)
3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Matteo Smerlak   (Divergences and gauge structure of Ponzano-Regge-like spinfoam models)
4:50 PM --- Discussion ---
12:20 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM James Ryan   (Tensor models and their jacket structure)
2:50 PM Lorenzo Sindoni   (Towards coherent states for collective variables in loop quantum gravity)
3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Daniele Pranzetti   (Thermal radiation from quantum weakly-dynamical horizons in loop quantum gravity)
4:50 PM --- Discussion ---