BtSM Event Announcements

grosquet

Frank Wilczek's interview, titled "What's Reality", can be listened to or downloaded at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/09/15

MTd2

Garrett will organize a small workshop.

marcus

Strings 2009 conference will be held in Rome, 22-26 July
http://strings2009.roma2.infn.it/home.html
The plan is all the talks will be invited plenary. There will be no contributed talks in parallel sessions. This is the same plan as was followed by Strings 2008 at CERN in August.

Fra

From the thread "String Field Theory and Background Independence?"
I guess I didn't have a clue how right I was

/Fredrik

marcus

First Announcement
International Conference on Quantum Gravity: Loops '09

The annual international conference on non-perturbative/background independent
quantum gravity will take place from 2 to 8 August 2009 at Beijing Normal
University in China. It stands in the tradition of Loops '04 in Marseille, Loops
'05 in Potsdam and Loops '07 in Morelia, but is more concentrated on the issues
and approaches closely related to loop quantum gravity. The main topics include:

* Loop quantum gravity
* Loop quantum cosmology and other symmetric models
* Spin foams and their low energy ramifications
* Fundamental questions of quantum gravity
* Cosmology related to quantum gravity
* Phenomenology of quantum gravity.

International Scientific Advisory Committee:
ASHTEKAR Abhay (Penn State Univ, USA)
BARRETT John (Univ of Nottingham, UK)
CORICHI Alejandro (Universidad Nacional Autonona de Mexico, Mexico)
LEWANDOWSKI Jerzy (Univ of Warsaw, Poland)
MENA MARUGAN Guillermo (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain)
PULLIN Jorge (Louisiana State Univ, USA)
RIVASSEAU Vincent (Univ of Paris-Sud XI, France)
ROVELLI Carlo (Univ of Mediterranee, France)
SMOLIN Lee (Perimeter Inst for Theor Phys, Canada)
THIEMANN Thomas (Albert-Einstein Inst, Germany).

Local Scientific Advisory Committee:
DUAN Yi-Shi (Univ of Lanzhou)
GUO Han-Ying (Inst of Theor Phys, CAS)
LI Xin-Zhou (Shanghai Normal Univ)
LIANG Canbin (Beijing Normal Univ)
LIU Liao (Beijing Normal Univ)
LU Tan (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS)
WANG Shi-Kun (Acad of Math and Syst Science, CAS)
WU Yue-Liang (Inst of Theor Phys, CAS)
ZHANG Yuan-Zhong (Inst of Theor Phys, CAS)
ZHAO Zheng (Beijing Normal Univ)

Instructions for online registration will be given in the second announcement.

marcus

http://www.uv.es/bhlqg/

A workshop in March 2009--at University of Valencia.
Black Holes and LQG
The list of talks has not been posted yet.
The scientific committee (responsible for putting the program together) are:
Abhay Ashtekar (IGC-PSU, USA)
Fernando Barbero (IEM-CSIC, Spain)
Alejandro Corichi (IM-UNAM, Mexico)
Jerzy Lewandowski (Universytet Warszawski, Poland)
Guillermo Mena (IEM-CSIC, Spain)
Hanno Sahlmann (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
Thomas Thiemann (AEI, Germany)
Madhavan Varadarajan (RRI, India)

<thanks to Christine Dantas for this item>

marcus

http://adm-50.physics.tamu.edu/speakers.php
November 7 and 8.
Conference at Texas A&M celebrating the 50-anniversary of the ADM reformulation of General Relativity by Arnowitt Deser Misner.

Speakers list:
Abhay Ashtekar
Zvi Bern
Steven Carlip
Michael Duff
James Hartle
Christopher Pope
Jorge Pullin
Bernard Schutz
Kellogg Stelle
Nicholas Suntzeff
Robert Wald
Rainer Weiss
Richard Woodard

grosquet

There's a Science Daily article on the strong force breaking parity law:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0329214740.htm

grosquet

Tevatron experiment points to 5 Higgs particles:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_a...t/10313875.stm

MTd2

The second post above was ruled out 1 week after its "detection" at ~3 sigma. This is about the same precision of the sign above, and it is only 1 sign at 150 GeV. The number 5 comes due to that the theory to which the search parameters were fixed yield 5 higgs...

grosquet

For "Fourth Flavor of Neutrino? Physics Experiment Suggests Existence of New Elementary Particle", see : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1102185722.htm

marcus

Thomas Thiemann is organizing a 2012 October school on Quantum Geometry to be held at Erlangen
http://www.gravity.physik.fau.de/school/school.shtml
The detailed program will be posted on this page:
http://www.gravity.physik.fau.de/sch...ool_prog.shtml
Jerzy Lewandowski will be the main person in charge of the LQG lectures.
There will be some other QG topics besides Loop. For example approaches to QG via QFT on curved spacetime and via group-valued momentum.
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Thiemann's announcement reminds me that it might be helpful to list links to upcoming QG (quantum geometry/gravity) schools, workshops, conferences:

PRAGUE-june
"Relativity and Gravitation" (Ashtekar, Lewandowski, Barbour, Gibbons, Nicolai, Wald, Will and others)
http://ae100prg.mff.cuni.cz/program

BEIJING-august
LQG school (Ashtekar, Lewandowski, Barrett, Engle, Livine and others)
http://physics.bnu.edu.cn/summerschool/en/index.php

TIANJIN-august
"Groups 29" conference (Lewandowski in charge of the LQG session)
http://www.cim.nankai.edu.cn/activit...0820/index.htm

VIENNA-september
"Quantum Physics Meets Gravity" school (including LQG lectures by Rovelli)
http://coqus.at/events/summerschool2012/

PORTUGAL-september
"QG and Integrable Systems" (Freidel[tbc], Louis Crane and others)
http://www.fctec.ualg.pt/qisg/speakers.html

ERLANGEN-october
"Emerging Fields" school (incl. Thiemann, LQG lectures by Lewandowski)
http://www.gravity.physik.fau.de/school/school.shtml

PERIMETER-october
"Experimental Search for QG" (organized by Hossenfelder and others)
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/...he_hard_facts/

PERIMETER-2013
"Loops 2013"

WARSAW GR20-july 2013
"General Relativity and Gravitation"
http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~lewand/Bid-GR20.pdf
Several schools are planned for the two weeks prior to GR20
including "Non-perturbative models of quantum gravity" organized by Michał Heller, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman, Jerzy Lewandowski

marcus

Conferences, schools, and workshops recently held or scheduled for near future:

PRAGUE-june
"Relativity and Gravitation" (Ashtekar, Lewandowski, Barbour, Gibbons, Nicolai, Wald, Will and others)
http://ae100prg.mff.cuni.cz/program

STOCKHOLM-july
"MG13" (13th Marcel Grossmann meeting, on theoretical/experimental GR and related topics)
http://www.icra.it/mg/mg13/

BEIJING-august
LQG school (Ashtekar, Lewandowski, Barrett, Engle, Livine and others)
http://physics.bnu.edu.cn/summerschool/en/index.php

TIANJIN-august
"Groups 29" conference (Lewandowski in charge of the LQG session)
http://www.cim.nankai.edu.cn/activit...0820/index.htm

VIENNA-september
"Quantum Physics Meets Gravity" school (including LQG lectures by Rovelli)
http://coqus.at/events/summerschool2012/

OLHÃO-september
"QG and Integrable Systems"
Speakers may include Laurent Freidel and Louis Crane
http://www.fctec.ualg.pt/qisg/speakers.html

LISBON-september
"Recent Advances in Topological Quantum Field Theory"
(workshop on TQFT and Quantum Gravity)
http://gfm.cii.fc.ul.pt/tqft2012

ERLANGEN-october
"Emerging Fields" school
(incl. Thiemann and LQG lectures by Lewandowski)
http://www.gravity.physik.fau.de/school/school.shtml

PERIMETER-october
"Experimental Search for QG" (organized by Hossenfelder and others)
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/...he_hard_facts/

WARSAW-8-12 July, 2013
"GR20" (20th General Relativity and Gravitation conference)
http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~lewand/Bid-GR20.pdf
One or more schools are under consideration for the two weeks prior to GR20.

PERIMETER-22-26 July, 2013
"Loops 2013"

marcus

I have some more detail on the Tianjin conference:
TIANJIN-august
"Groups 29" conference (Lewandowski in charge of the LQG session)
http://www.cim.nankai.edu.cn/activit...0820/index.htm

Owing to software incompatibility I can't get this website to do much. The link to "titles and abstracts" does not work for me, even if I use FireFox, as advised. However here is a list of Invited Speakers for the LQG session.

Session 8
Loop Quantum Gravity
Chair:
Jerzy Lewandowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Invited Speakers (Titles and Abstracts)

Emanuele Alesci (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany)
Benjamin Bahr (University of Cambridge, UK)
Norbert Bodendorfer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
You Ding (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada)
Jonathan Engle (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Marc Geiller (APC-University Paris 7, France)
Hal Haggard (Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy, France)
Frank Hellmann (Albert Einstein Institute, Germany)
Wojciech Kaminski (Albert Einstein Institute, Germany)
Marcin Kisielowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Yongge Ma (Beijing Normal University, China)
Wolfgang Wieland (Universite de la Mediterranee (Marseille), France)
Mingyi Zhang (Aix-Marseille Universite, France)

marcus

Fall 2012 schedule for the International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar (online audio and slides PDF)

Sept. 4 Holonomy Spin Foam Models: Asymptotic Dynamics Frank Hellmann Albert Einstein Institute
Sept. 18 Flux coherent states Lorenzo Sindoni Albert Einstein Institute
Oct. 2 TBA Derek Wise FAU, Erlangen
Oct. 16 TBA Eugenio Bianchi Perimeter Institute
Oct. 30 Renormalization of Tensorial Group Field Theories Sylvain Carrozza Albert Einstein Institute
Nov 13 Twistorial structure of loop quantum gravity transition amplitudes Simone Speziale CPT-CNRS, Marseille
Nov. 27 TBA Bianca Dittrich Perimeter Institute
http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/schedulefa12.html
http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/

marcus

Update of the ILQGS Fall 2012 schedule (online audio and slides PDF)

Sept. 4 Holonomy Spin Foam Models: Asymptotic Dynamics Frank Hellmann Albert Einstein Institute
Sept. 18 Flux coherent states Lorenzo Sindoni Albert Einstein Institute
Oct. 2 Lifting General Relativity to Observer Space Derek Wise FAU, Erlangen
Oct. 16 Horizon entropy from loop gravity Eugenio Bianchi Perimeter Institute
Oct. 30 Renormalization of Tensorial Group Field Theories Sylvain Carrozza Albert Einstein Institute
Nov 13 Twistorial structure of loop quantum gravity transition amplitudes Simone Speziale CPT-CNRS, Marseille
Nov. 27 TBA Bianca Dittrich Perimeter Institute

http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/

marcus

A potentially interesting conference next month in Stockholm:
Perspectives of Fundamental Cosmology
google "fundamental cosmology stockholm" to get the website.
http://agenda.albanova.se/conference...py?confId=2998
==quote==
Week 1: Fundamental theories of space-time. Here, the main approaches will be introduced by some of the experts in the fields, with a focus on the resulting models for early-universe cosmology.
Week 2: Cosmological and high-energy phenomenology. The various implications of fundamental theories for cosmology and high-energy physics will be discussed.
Week 3: Cosmology and high-energy physics. In this week, a general discussion of the potential of cosmological and high-energy observations will be carried out.
Week 4: Several combinations of topics covered in the previous weeks are possible to arrive at concluding statements. (Details of this week will be scheduled short notice, capturing those topics that have emerged as the most important ones.)
==endquote==
Chairs: Hossenfelder, Giesel, Sakellariadou, Bojowald
Other participants folks here might recognize: Lewandowski, Kiefer, Thiemann, Calcagni, Brandenberger, Ambjorn, Loll, Mavromatos, Sotiriou, Nelson, Steinhacker, Campiglia...