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2008
 
 
16 December D. Benedetti (Perimeter Institute)
Imposing causality on a matrix model
11 December Shun-Pei Miao (UU)
Could a graviton be massive?
27 November J. Diaz-Polo (Valencia)
Computing black hole entropy in loop quantum gravity from a new perspective
20 November E. Anderson
Relational Particle Mechanics as an alternative toy model to Minisuperspace
13 November B. Foster (UU)
Dirac's penumbra
4 November J. Koksma (UU) 
Decoherence and Field Theory
23 October A. Paredes (UU)
The Unruh effect and the AdS/CFT correspondence
16 October I. Garay (Madrid)
Quantum Gravity effects in a system with cylindrical symmetry
2 October T. Konopka (UU)
TOPIC: DICE 2008
4 September J. Barbour (College Farm)
Was Spacetime a Glorious Historical Accident?
19 June C. Dehne (U Leipzig)
On the path integral in non-commutative QFT
12 June S. Jordan (U. Zuerich)
General Relativity: An alternative derivation of the Kruskal-Schwarzschild solution
29 May M. Iftime (Boston)
Some cohomology classes for G-structures and their applications to spacetime geometry
22 May C. Dehne (U Leipzig)
On the path integral in non-commutative QFT
15 May T. Prokopec (UU)
Hermitian Gravity and Cosmology
8 May C. Skordis (Perimeter Institute)
Conundrums and prospects of modified gravity
24 April C. Rahmede (SISSA & INFN, Trieste)
Old and new results from the Wilsonian approach to gravity
21 April R. Percacci (SISSA & INFN)
Informal summary and discussion of the recent WE-Heraeus Seminar, Quantum Gravity: Challenges and Perspectives, held in Bad Honnef, Germany, April 14-16
17 April J. Henson (PI)
Problems with probabilities in quantum gravity
3 April
B. Foster (UU)
Quantum Weirdness in Semiclassical Gravity
27 March M. Arzano (Perimeter Institute)
Non-locality, quantum symmetries and kappa-quantum fields
20 March T. Konopka (UU)
Particles in a Flexible Box
24 January R. Lash Maitra (Yale U.)
Nonlinear normal ordering, ground states, and cosmological models
18 January J. Behrend (U. Heidelberg)
Cosmological Backreaction and Generally Covariant Averaging
2007  
December 13 E. Bianchi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Simplicial Geometry from Loop Quantum Gravity
December 6 B. Bahr (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
Automorphisms in Loop Quantum Gravity
November 22 T. Tlas (Cambridge U., DAMTP)
A New Class of Group Field Theories for 1st Order Discrete Quantum Gravity
November 8 K. Giesel (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
Algebraic Quantum Gravity and Reduced Phase Space Quantization
October 17 P. Höhn (Berlin)
Encoding Possible Final States of the Universe with Conformal Structures
October 3 G. 't Hooft (UU)
Gerard 't Hooft will talk about his recent paper on "Unitarity in the Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism for Gravity", arxiv 0708.3184.
September 27 Daniel Gomez Vergel (UU and CSIC, Madrid)
Exact quantization of Gowdy 3-torus models
September 13 D. Gomez Vergel (UU and CSIC, Madrid)
Exact quantization of Gowdy 3-torus models
September 5 F. Markopoulou (Perimeter Institute)
informal presentation on "Quantum Graphity"
July 5 A. Starodubtsev (UU)
On perturbative expansion of General Relativity around a topological sector
June 21 G. Brightwell (London School of Economics)
Classical sequential growth models
June 14 J. Tambornino (RWTH Aachen)
Gauge invariant observables in cosmological perturbation theory
May 10 B. Dittrich (Perimeter Inst.)
(Non)-local observables in General Relativity
March 29 Y. Cho (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Topology of Vacuum Space-Time
March 22 D. Sudarsky (UNAM)
New physics at the quantum origin of cosmic structure?
March 8 R. Penrose (Oxford)
Conformal Space-Time: a New Cosmological Perspective on the Second Law, with Observational Implications
February 22 F. Scardigli (Kyoto University)
A Quantum-like Description of the Planetary Systems
February 15 D. Oriti (UU)
Whence the continuum? a group field theory perspective on spacetime
January 11 M. Iftime (Massachusetts C.)
Gauge-Natural Theories and Background Independence
2006  
December 14 T. Tlas (Univ. of Cambridge)
Causality in the Spinfoam Approach to 3d Qauntum Gravity Coupled to Matter
December 5 W. Fairbain (ENS, Lyon)
Fermions in 3d spinfoam quantum gravity
November 30 T. Konopka (Perimeter I.)
Quantum Graphity
November 22 R. Lash (Yale Univ.)
Mathematically Rigorous Quantum Field Theories with a Non-Linear Normal Ordering of the Hamiltonian
November 16 I. Pushkina (UU)
The sign problem in lattice quantum chromodynamics
November 9 Daniele Oriti (UU)
Matter coupling in 3d spinfoam quantum gravity - II
November 2 Daniele Oriti (UU)
Matter coupling in 3d spinfoam quantum gravity
October 6 Dario Benedetti (UU)
The quantum Hamiltonian of (2+1)-dimensional gravity from combinatorics?
May 18 A. Starodubtsev (UU)
Four dimensional topological field theory coupled to point particles
May 11 S. Zohren (Imperial College, London)
Evidence for an entropy bound in fundamentally discrete gravity
May 4 I. Pushkina (Hiroshima University)
Finite density Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD):properties of hadrons under extreme conditions
April 27 F. Saueressig (UU)
Tensors, hypers and string loop corrected moduli spaces
February 16 J. Henson and H. Sahlmann (UU)
Spin foam quantum gravity
February  9 J. Henson and H. Sahlmann (UU)
Spin foam quantum gravity
February 2 J. Henson and H. Sahlmann (UU)
Condensed matter analogues of gravity
January 25
 
P. Jizba (Czech Technical University, Prague)
On quantum mechanics as a constrained deterministic dynamics
January 19 J. Henson and H. Sahlmann (UU)
Continuation of discussion about the issue of observables in quantum gravity
January 12 No. 43
Discussion about the issue of observables in quantum gravity