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Fundamental Theory and International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminars
Spring 2010
| January 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, January 8 | Nikolay Bobev University of Southern California |
Supergravity Solutions and Black Hole Microstates |
| Monday, January 11 | Janna Levin (IGC Colloquium) | A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits |
| Friday, January 15 | Soo-Jong Rey Seoul National University |
Dyon Black Hole = Composite Fermion Metal |
| Tuesday, January 19 | David Sloan, Penn State | Slow Roll Inflation in Loop Quantum Gravity |
| Friday, January 22 | ||
| Friday, January 29 | William Nelson, Penn State | Cosmic Strings, Cosmic Superstrings and Cusps |
| February 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Tuesday, February 2 | Claudio Perini Marseille/Rome |
Coherent Spin Networks |
| Friday, February 5 | Thorsten Battefeld Princeton University |
Multi-Field Inflation - Inflation Decay and Reheating |
| Friday, February 12 | Eran Rosenthal Cornell University |
Testing Gravity on Cosmological Scales |
| Monday, February 15 | Bruce McWilliams (POSTPONED) (IGC Colloquium) |
TBA |
| Tuesday, February 16 | Tomas Pawlowski CSIC Madrid |
Big Bounce and Inhomogeneities: A Hybrid Approach |
| Friday, February 19 | Igor Rodnianski Princeton University |
Black Holes and Linear Waves |
| Friday, February 26 | Henning Samtleben ENS Lyon |
N=8 Supergravity and Local Scaling Symmetry |
| March 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Monday, March 1 | Adam Burrowes (POSTPONED) Princeton University (IGC Colloquium) |
TBA |
| Friday, March 5 | ||
| Tuesday, March 9 | TBA | TBA |
| Friday, March 12 | Spring Break | |
| Monday, March 15 | Ty DeYoung (IGC Colloquium) Penn State |
TBA |
| Friday, March 19 | ||
| Tuesday, March 23 | TBA | TBA |
| Friday, March 26 | ||
| April 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, April 2 | ||
| Monday April 5 | Barnaby Marsh (IGC Colloquium) | TBA |
| Tuesday, April 6 | TBA | TBA |
| Friday, April 9 | TBA | TBA |
| Friday, April 16 | ||
| Tuesday, April 20 | Jose Antonio Zapata, UNAM Morelia | Curvature |
| Friday, April 23 | ||
| Monday, April 26 | Stefan Funk, Stanford/SLAC IGC Colloquium |
TBA |
| Friday, April 30 | ||
| May 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Tuesday, May 4 | Alejandro Perez, Marseille | TBA |
| Friday, May 7 | ||
| Friday, May 14 | ||
Fall 2010
| August 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, August 27 | ||
| September 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, September 3 | ||
| Friday, September 10 | ||
| Friday, September 17 | Subir Sachdev, Harvard University | |
| Friday, September 24 | ||
| October 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, October 1 | ||
| Friday, October 8 | ||
| Friday, October 15 | ||
| Friday, October 22 | ||
| Friday, October 29 | ||
| November 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, November 5 | ||
| Friday, November 12 | ||
| Friday, November 19 | ||
| Monday, Nov 22 - Friday, Nov 26 |
Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, December 3 | ||
| Friday, December 10 | ||
Fall 2009
| August 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Monday, August 24 | Ergin Sezgin, Texas A & M University | Is the Energy Positive in Topologically Massive Gravity? |
| Monday, August 31 | Kelly Stelle, Imperial College | D-3 Duality and Black Holes |
| September 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, September 4 | David Brizuela, CSIC Madrid | The Quantum Big Bounce for an Inhomogeneous Cosmological Model |
| Friday, September 11 | Simone Mercuri, Penn State | Peccei-Quinn Mechanism in Gravity and the Dynamics of the Axion-Like Barbero-ImmIrzi Field |
| Friday, September 18 | NO SEMINAR | |
| Tuesday, September 22 | Richard Woodard, University of Florida |
Questions and Answers in Perturbative Quantum Gravity |
| Friday, September 25 | NO SEMINAR | |
| Tuesday, September 29 | Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State | Cosmological Spin Foams, Part I |
| October 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, October 2 | Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State | Cosmological Spin Foams, Part II |
| Tuesday, October 6 | Eugenio Bianchi, SNS Pisa | Aharonov-Bohm and LQG |
| Friday, October 9 | ||
| Tuesday, October 13 | David Sloan, Penn State | A Priori Likelihood of Slow Roll Inflation in LQC |
| Friday, October 16 | Johannes Broedel, AEI Postdam-Golm |
Constraints from E_7 on the R4 Counterterm in Maximal Supergravity |
| Tuesday, October 20 | Jerzy Lewandowski, University of Warsaw | Spin Foams from LQG Perspective |
| Friday, October 23 | Andrew Debenedictis, Simon Fraser University |
Higher Genus Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity |
| Friday, October 30 | ||
| November 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Tuesday, November 3 | Daniele Oriti, AEI | Group Field Theory and All That |
| Friday, November 6 | ||
| Wednesday, November 11 | Florian Conrady, Perimeter Institute | Quantum Geometry from Phase Space Reduction |
| Friday, November 13 | ||
| Tuesday, November 17 | Frank Hellmann, University of Nottingham | Asymptotics of the New Vertex |
| Friday, November 20 | Silke Weinfurtner University of New Brunswich |
Anisotropic Scaling: From Condensed Matter Systems to Horava-Lifshitz Gravity |
| Friday, November 27 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Tuesday, December 1 | Alok Laddha, Raman Research Institute | Polymer Parameterized Field Theory |
| Friday, December 4 | Johannes Tambornino, AEI | Born-Oppenheimer Decomposition for Quantum Fields on Quantum Spacetimes |
Spring 2009
| January 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| January 9 | ||
| January 16 | Group Discussion | Presentations by graduate students and post docs |
| January 23 | ||
| January 30 | David Vogan, MIT | The Orbit Method and Unitary Representations: Coals to Newcastle |
| February 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| February 6 | ||
| February 13 | Tomas Liko, Penn State | An Overview of Isolated Horizons in String-Inspired Gravity Models |
| February 20 | Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State | Gelfand Naimark Segal Construction II |
| February 27 | Ben Owen, Penn State | Informal talk on Neutron Stars |
| March 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| March 6 | Jonathan Hackett and Yidun Wan Perimeter Institute |
Emergent Matter as Braid Excitations in Quantum Gravity: A Status Report |
| March 13 | Spring Break | |
| March 20 | Kirill Krasnov, University of Nottingham | Introduction to Spin Foam Models, Part I |
| March 27 | Kirill Krasnov, University of Nottingham | Introduction to Spin Foam Models, Part II |
| April 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| April 3 | ||
| April 10 | Panel Discussion | Status and Future of Loop Quantum Gravity |
| April 17 | Gianluca Calcagni | Cosmology of the Separate Universe and Nonlinear Inhomogeneities |
| April 24 | Gianluca Calcagni, Penn State | Cosmology of the Separate Universe and Nonlinear Inhomogeneities, Part II |
| May 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| May 1 | Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State | Discussion on Semi-Classical Issues, Part II |