Workshop on Continuum and Lattice Approaches to Quantum Gravity
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Programme

 

Lecture Theatre Arts C 133

 

Wednesday 17th September

Morning Sessions

0850    Opening

0900 - 1000 M Reuter (U Mainz)  Asymptotic safety in Quantum Einstein Gravity          [Transparencies]
1000 - 1100 R Percacci  (SISSA - Trieste)  A particle physicists's view of gravity           [Slides]

Coffee break

1130 - 1230 J Lewandowski  (U Warsaw)   Loop Quantum Gravity        [Slides]
1230 - 1300 Discussion Session (Chair: J Barrett)

Lunch break (Down's Restaurant)

 

Afternoon Sessions

1430 - 1530 J Barrett (U Nottignham)  Spin foams        [Slides]
1530 - 1630 L Freidel (Perimeter Institute)  Semi-classical limit in spin foam model        [Slides]

Tea break

1700 - 1720 C Rahmede (SISSA - Trieste) Old and new results from the Wilsonian approach to gravity        [Slides]
1720 - 1740 J Ryan (Perimeter Institute) Phase space descriptions for simplicial 4d geometries        [Slides]
1740 - 1800 R Sverdlov (U Michigan) Introduction of bosonic fields into causal set theory        [Transparencies]
1800 - 1820 R Garattini (U Bergamo) The Cosmological constant as an eigenvalue of a Sturm-Liouville problem in modified gravity theories        [Slides]
1820 - 1850 Discussion Session (Chair: R Percacci)


1900 Buffet Dinner (Bramber House 2nd floor)

 

Thursday 18th September

Morning Sessions

0900 - 1000 N E Bjerrum-Bohr (IAS Princeton) Amplitudes in Gravity and Yang-Mills Theories        [Slides]
1000 - 1100 M Niedermaier (U Tours) Can a nontrivial gravitational fixed point be seen in perturbation theory?        [Slides]

Coffee break

1130 - 1230 D Litim (U Sussex) Quantum Gravity and the Renormalisation Group        [Slides]
1230 - 1300 Discussion Session (Chair: J Ambjorn)

Lunch break (The Downs Restaurant)

 

Afternoon Sessions

1430 - 1530 J Ambjorn (NBI Copenhagen)  Non-perturbative quantum deSitter space        [Transparencies]
1530 - 1550 J-E Daum (U Mainz)  The Effective Potential of the Conformal Factor in Quantum Einstein Gravity        [Transparencies]

 Tea break

1620 - 1720 J Jurkiewicz (U Jagellonia)  Numerical simulations of Causal Dynamical Triangulations        [Slides]
1720 - 1750 Discussion Session (Chair: M Niedermaier)

1900 Workshop Dinner (Landsdowne Hotel, Brighton)

Friday 19th September

Morning Sessions

0900 - 1000 A Bonanno (U Catania) QEG: Cosmological implications and black hole phenomenology        [Slides]
1000 - 1100 T Plehn (U Edinburgh)  Weak-scale quantum gravity at the LHC        [Slides]

Coffee break

1130 - 1230 D Anselmi (U Pisa)  Renormalization and Lorentz symmetry violation        [Slides]
1230 - 1300 Discussion Session (Chair: E N Bjerrum-Bohr)
1300 Closing

Lunch (Down's Restaurant)