ccdantas said:
Here is the homepage of the event -- to be held from Jun 19 to Jul 05 2008, in João Pessoa, Brazil:
http://www.fisica.ufpb.br/eventos/friedmann2008/friedmann2008new2.htm
http://www.fisica.ufpb.br/eventos/friedmann2008/friedmann2008new2_arquivos/page0016.htm" are the current scheduled talks.
Christine
Thanks for flagging this, Christine. I didn't know about it. Several details struck me as interesting. They have already done a good bit of organizing even though it is still several months away: the list of participants and the talks they plan to give is already long. Also the seminar will continue over more than two weeks.
The last week overlaps with the Nottingham QG
2 conference (whose organizers include
John Baez, Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin, John Barrett). It seems like this always happens with these summer conferences, there are too few weeks in the summer. Last year Loops '07 overlapped with Strings '07. But I suspect that the schedule conflict does not matter, since the Friedmann Seminar has a 15 day duration.
I found a summary of the topics to be discussed here:
http://www.fisica.ufpb.br/eventos/friedmann2008/friedmann2008new2_arquivos/page0002.htm
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Your post prompted me to check out Hyperspace
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/hyperspace/conference/index.html
which I often forget to do regularly, and I came across something else I hadn't known about. Something starting just ten days from now:
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/hyperspace/conference/08Feb.7.html
ESF science meeting
Quantum Gravity: Loops and Foams
3.3-8.3. 2008
Zakopane, Poland
on Loop Quantum Gravity and Spin Foam models. The
workshop is by invitation only, further information
can be obtained via
H Sahlmann <h.sahlmann@phys.uu.nl>
J Lewandowski <Jerzy.Lewandowski@fuw.edu.pl>
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~sahlmann/