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Parallel Session: Quantum Gravity and Mathematical General Relativity
Room 101 Osmond
Sunday, June 8th, 2003
Chair: Alejandro Perez
| Approaches to Quantum Gravity and QFT in Curved Space Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 2:00 p.m. | Karel Kuchar | Spacetime Canonical Gravity [ Slides ] |
| 2:30 p.m. | John Klauder | What is Affine Quantum Gravity? [ Slides ] |
| 3:00 p.m. | Rodolfo Gambini | Consistent Discrete Quantum Gravity [ Slides ] |
| 3:30 p.m. | Guillermo Mena Marugan | Einstein-Rosen Waves in Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity [ Slides ] |
Chair: Donald Marolf
| Approaches to Quantum Gravity and QFT in Curved Space Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 4:30 p.m. | Jesus Fernando Barbero | Microcausality in Quantized Cylindrical Gravitational Waves [ Slides ] |
| 5:00 p.m. | Eduardo Jesus Villasenor Sanchez | Quantized Cylindrical Gravitational Waves and Sigma Models [ Slides ] |
| 5:20 p.m. | Robert Wald | Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes [ Slides ] |
| 5:50 p.m. | Stefan Hollands | Recent Progress in Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes [ Slides ] |
Monday, June 9th, 2003
Chair: Donald Marolf
| Strings and Black Holes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 2:00 p.m. | Simon Ross | Cosmic Censorship in Holographic Gravity [ Slides ] |
| 2:30 p.m. | Djordje Minic | Background Independence, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity [ Slides ] |
| 3:00 p.m. | Jacek Wisniewski | Higher Dimensional Black Holes and AdS/CFT Conjecture [ Slides ] |
| 3:20 p.m. | Jorma Louko | Hawking Effect for Dirac Spinors on the Rp^3 Geon [ Slides ] |
| 3:40 p.m. | Olaf Dreyer | New Insights in Black Hole Physics [ Slides ] |
Chair: Jerzy Lewandowski
| Mathematical Relativity | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 4:30 p.m. | Simonetta Frittelli and Ezra T. Newman | Shear-Free Null Geodesic Congruences [Slides ] |
| 5:00 p.m. | Chris Beetle | A Radiation Scalar for General Relativity |
| 5:30 p.m. | Donald Marolf | The Asymptotic Structure of Homogeneous Plane Waves [ Slides ] |
| 6:00 p.m. | Jong Hyuk Yoon | Quasi-Local Balance Equations and Deformation of Two-Surfaces [ Slides ] |
Tuesday, June 10th, 2003
Chair: Alejandro Perez
| Quantum Geometry and Loop Quantum Gravity | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 2:00 p.m. | Hanno Sahlmann | Uniqueness of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski Representation of Quantum Gravity [ Slides ] |
| 2:20 p.m. | Andrzej Okolow | Quantum Groups and Quantum Connection [ Slides ] |
| 2:40 p.m. | Jerzy Lewandowski | The Quantum Scalar Constraint [ Slides ] |
| 3:10 p.m. | Thomas Thiemann | The Phoenix Project [ Slides ] |
| 3:40 p.m. | Christian Fleischhack | On the Lewandowski-Thiemann Conjecture [ Slides ] |
Chair: Jerzy Lewandowski
| Mathematical Relativity | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 4:30 p.m. | Stephen Fairhurst | Dynamical Horizons: The First Law and Hamiltonian Formulation [ Slides ] |
| 5:00 p.m. | Ivan Booth | Canonical Phase Space Formulation of Quasilocal General Relativity [ Slides ] |
| 5:30 p.m. | Alejandro Corichi | Horizon Mass for de Sitter Black Holes [ Slides ] |
| 6:00 p.m. | Tomasz Pawlowski | Einstein (-Maxwell) Space-Times Foliated by Isolated Horizons [ Slides ] |
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
Chair: Dan Christensen
| Spin Foams and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 2:00 p.m. | Kirill Krasnov | Spin Foam Models: Lessons from 2+1 Dimensions [ Slides ] |
| 2:30 p.m. | Fotini Markopoulou | Spin Foams from Quantum Information Theory [ Slides ] |
| 3:00 p.m. | Laurent Freidel | Gravitons and the Kodama State |
| 3:30 p.m. | Daniel Sudarsky | Can There Be a New Ether Resulting from Granularity of Space-Time at Planck Scale? [ Slides ] |
Chair: Donald Marolf
| Quantum Cosmology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
| 4:30 p.m. | Seth Major | Possible Observations in Quantum Gravity [ Slides ] |
| 4:50 p.m. | Martin Bojowald | Loop Quantum Cosmology [ Slides ] |
| 5:20 p.m. | David Craig | Generalized Quantum Theory of Homogeneous Cosmologies [ Slides ] |
Thursday, June 12th, 2003
Chair: Jerzy Lewandowski
| Spin Foams and Mathematical Relativity | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 2:00 p.m. | Robert Oeckl | Renormalization for Spin Foam Models of Quantum Gravity [ Slides ] |
| 2:20 p.m. | Jose Antonio Zapata | Loop Quantization and Renormalization [ Slides ] |
| 2:40 p.m. | David Louapre | Non-Perturbative Summation over 3D Topologies [ Slides ] |
| 3:00 p.m. | Alejandro Corichi | When is Quantum Gravity Unitary? [ Slides ] |
| 3:20 p.m. | James Crawford | Spacetime Dynamics from Spin Dynamics: General Spin Connection [ Slides ] |
| 3:40 p.m. | Mikolaj Korzynski | Cartan's Normal Connection and Its Application to Twistor Theory and Conformal Geometry [ Slides ] |