Corfu Summer School and Workshop on
Quantum Gravity and Quantum Geometry

(3rd week, 14th – 19th September 2009)





Monday 14th Sep


School

09.00 - 10.00

Loop Quantum Gravity (slides)

A. Ashtekar

10.00 - 11.00

Spin networks and quantum gravity (slides 1,slides 2)

J. Barrett

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30

Categorification in Fundamental Physics

J. Baez

12.30 - 13.30

Loop Quantum Gravity (slides)

A. Ashtekar

13.30 – 16.00

Lunch Break

16.00 - 16.45

Discussion session

Workshop

16.45 – 17.30

Asymptotic Safety and Background Independence in Quantum Gravity (slides)

M. Reuter

17.30 – 18.00

Reduced phase space quantization of Loop Quantum Gravity (slides)

K. Giesel

18.00 – 18.30

Coffee break

18.30 – 19.15

Geometry and observables in (2+1)-gravity (slides)

C. Meusburger

19.15 – 19.45

Noncommutative black holes (slides)

P. Schupp

19.45 – 20.15

Asymptotics of four-dimensional spin foam models (slides)

W. Fairbairn


Tuesday 15th September


School

09.00 - 10.00

Categorification in Fundamental Physics

J. Baez

10.00 - 11.00

Spin networks and quantum gravity (slides 1,slides 2)

J. Barrett

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30

Spin networks and quantum gravity (slides 1,slides 2)

J. Barrett

12.30 - 13.30

Loop Quantum Gravity (slides)

A. Ashtekar

13.30 – 16.00

Lunch Break

16.00 - 16.45

Discussion session

Workshop

16.45 – 17.30

Noncommutative differentials on Uq(su2) and 3D quantum gravity

S. Majid

17.30 – 18.00

Kappa-deformed oscillators and kappa-statistics

J. Lukierski

18.00 – 18.30

Coffee break

18.30 – 19.00

Equivariant Dimensional Reduction and Quiver Gauge Theory

B. Dolan

19.00– 19.30

Quantum Geometry of the M5-brane in a Constant C-Field from Multiple Membranes

C. – S. Chu

19.30 – 20.00

Hopf algebra symmetry and Diffeomorphism in String

S. Watamura

20.00 – 20.30

Gravitational anomaly and fundamental forces (slides)

J. van der Bij








Wednesday 16th September


School

09.00 - 10.00

Spin networks and quantum gravity (slides 1,slides 2)

J. Barrett

10.00 - 11.00

Loop Quantum Gravity (slides)

A. Ashtekar

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30

Loop Quantum Gravity (slides)

A. Ashtekar

12.30 - 13.30

Categorification in Fundamental Physics

J. Baez

13.30 – 16.00

Lunch Break


FREE AFTERNOON


Thursday 17th September



School

09.00 - 10.00

Spin networks and quantum gravity (slides 1,slides 2)

J. Barrett

10.00 - 11.00

Covariant loop quantum gravity and its low-energy limit

C. Rovelli

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30

Covariant loop quantum gravity and its low-energy limit

C. Rovelli

12.30 - 13.30

Renormalization in Fundamental Physics

V. Rivasseau

13.30 – 16.00

Lunch Break

16.00 – 17.00

Renormalization in Fundamental Physics

V. Rivasseau

17.00 – 17.30

Discussion session

Workshop

17.30 – 18.15

What does high energy scattering teach us about the quantum physics of gravity?

S. Giddings

18.15 - 18.45

Noncommutative gravity solutions

P. Aschieri



ESF QG network SC meeting starts at 18.45 in Mon Repos Palace.




Friday 18th September




School

09.00 - 10.00

Covariant loop quantum gravity and its low-energy limit

C. Rovelli

10.00 - 11.00

Renormalization in Fundamental Physics

V. Rivasseau

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30

Renormalization in Fundamental Physics

V. Rivasseau

12.30 - 13.30

Categorification in Fundamental Physics

J. Baez

13.30 – 16.00

Lunch Break

16.00 - 16.45

Discussion session

Workshop

16.45 – 17.30

Noncommutative renormalizable Quantum Field Theory

H. Grosse

17.30 – 18.00

Matrix Models, Quantum Spaces, and Gravity

H. Steinacker

18.00 – 18.30

Coffee break

18.30 – 19.00

UV/IR duality in noncommutative quantum field theory

R. Szabo

19.00– 19.30

Fuzzy Riemann surfaces

J. Hoppe

19.30 – 20.00

Asymptotically flat spacetimes revisited

G. Barnich

20.00 – 20.30

Emergent and Evaporating Geometry

D. O’Connor







Saturday 19th September




School

09.00 - 10.00

Renormalization in Fundamental Physics

V. Rivasseau

10.00 - 11.00

Covariant loop quantum gravity and its low-energy limit

C. Rovelli

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30

Categorification in Fundamental Physics

J. Baez

12.30 - 13.30

Covariant loop quantum gravity and its low-energy limit

C. Rovelli

13.30 – 16.00

Lunch Break

16.00 - 16.45

Discussion session

Workshop

16.45 – 17.30

Spin-foams from the LQG point of view

J. Lewandowski

17.30 – 18.00

2-group representations and spin foam models

A. Baratin

18.00 – 18.30

Coffee break

18.30 – 19.00

On asymptotics of spin networks

R. Littlejohn

19.00– 19.30

Gauge symmetry breaking in matrix models

F. Lizzi