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Fundamental Theory and International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminars

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
Friday, November 13
Tuesday, November 17 Frank Hellmann, University of Nottingham Asymptotics of the New Vertex
Friday, November 20 SWIFT Conference
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
Friday, December 11

Spring 2010

January 2010
Date Speaker Topic
January 8
January 15
January 22
January 29
February 2010
Date Speaker Topic
February 5
February 12
February 19 Igor Rodnianski, Princeton TBA
February 26
March 2010
Date Speaker Topic
March 5
March 12 Spring Break
March 19
March 26
April 2010
Date Speaker Topic
April 2
April 9
April 16
April 23
April 30
May 2010
Date Speaker Topic
May 7
May 14



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
May 8



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