Topics at this week's QGQG school

[marcus]

http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~jpa/qgqg3/talk_schedule.pdf

Open Problems in Loop Quantum Gravity
Sunday, February 28 - Thursday, March 4, 2010 Zakopane, Poland

SUNDAY
Spin foam models
12:00 Roberto Pereira: The new SF models
13:00 Aristide Baratin: Group field theory in non-commutative metric variables
15:00 Wojciech Kamiński: The EPRL intertwiners and correct partition function
15:40 Benjamin Bahr: Knotting in the new SF models
16:20 Florian Conrady: New results on Lorentzian SF

MONDAY
LQG dynamics
12:00 Thomas Thiemann: LQG dynamics
13:00 Kristina Giesel: gravity, fields, semiclassical limit
15:00 Marcin Domagała: Gravity coupled to scalar field
15:40 Johannes Tambornino: the flux representation for LQG
16:50 Diana Kaminski: Holonomy grupoid formulation of LQG
17:30 Jorge Pullin: spherically symmetric LQG

TUESDAY
LQG and more
12:00 Carlo Rovelli: SF give a new dynamics to Canonical LQG
13:00 Bianca Dittrich: diffeomorphism in discrete gravity
15:00 James Ryan: phase space of discrete BF theory and LQG
15:40 Jesper Grimstrup: Coupling fermions to LQG by using the non-commutative spectral action
16:50 Yongge Ma: Emergence of scalar matter from spinfoam model

WEDNESDAY
Continuum/Semiclassical Limits
12:00 Lorenzo Sindoni: Continuum approximation of microscopic quantum dynamics: lessons from condmat systems and analog gravity models
13:00 Benjamin Bahr: LQG coherent states
14:40 Etera Livine: U(N) structure of LQG states and its implications for semiclassical limit
15:20 Florian Girelli: Semi-classical spaces and spinfoams: facts and questions
16:30 Frank Hellmann: the asymptotics of spin foam models
17:10 Claudio Perini: Relation between LQG and SF coherent states

THURSDAY
LQG/SF
12:00 Lionel Mason: Twistors and Feynman amplitudes
13:00 Adam Henderson: what LQC tells us about the relation between LQG and SF
14:40 Martin Bojowald: Effective dynamics
15:20 Madhavan Varadarajan: Polymer quantization
17:10 Ashtekar: Closing/summary/future directions talk

http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~jpa/qgqg3/
As I recall over 90 people are registered as participating. Time has been set aside for informal discussion. All I have listed here are the scheduled talks.

 

[MTd2]

THURSDAY'S TALK "Lionel Mason: Twistors and Feynman amplitudes" puzzled me. I looked at the list of papers of this author, and didn't find anything related to LQG:

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?match=or&ea=%22Mason,+L+J%22&ea=%22Mason,+L+J+,+(Ed+)%22&ea=%22Mason,+Lionel%22&ea=%22Mason,+Lionel+J%22