Quantum Gravity Colloquium 5

from Wednesday, 6 October 2010 (10:00) to Friday, 8 October 2010 (19:00)
Laboratoire APC, University Paris 7 (454A - Klee, 4th floor (Thursday morning: 646A - Mondrian, 6th floor))

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Oct 2010
7 Oct 2010
8 Oct 2010
AM
10:15 --- Introductory remarks ---
10:30 Constrained BF theory as gravity   ()
11:00 The fate of diffeomorphism symmetries in discrete gravity   ()
11:30 --- Morning coffee break ---
10:30 Emergence of non-commutativity in an operational description of spacetime   ()
11:00 Causal dynamical triangulations with a point-like source   ()
11:30 --- Morning coffee break ---
10:30 Spin foam models and group field theory   ()
11:45 --- Morning coffee break ---
PM
12:00 Quantized cosmological constant in 1+1 dimensional quantum gravity   ()
12:30 Fock space in group field theory   ()
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30 Tensorial spectrum with LQC corrections, a possible way to test the theory   ()
15:00 Stable coherent states   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon coffee break ---
16:00 Group field theory and EPR/FK models   ()
12:00 Physical boundary Hilbert space and volume operator in the EPRL spin-foam theory   ()
12:30 An effective approach to the problem of time   ()
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30 A basic introduction to the MacDowell-Mansouri gravity of the BF type versus LQG   ()
15:00 Could ultra-light quantum black holes compose dark matter or emergent speed of light?   ()
15:30 --- Afternoon coffee break ---
16:00 Research directions between loops and strings   ()
16:30 Unimodular loop quantum gravity   ()
12:00 Spin foam models and group field theory   ()
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Workgroup (until 15:30) ()
15:30 --- Afternoon coffee break ---
16:00
Workgroup (until 17:30) ()
17:30 --- Break ---
17:45 --- Collective discussion ---