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AbhayFest: Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity Proceedings
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Thursday, June 4
Chair: Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University)
| Time | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Jayanth Banavar (Penn State) - Opening Remarks | |
| Jim Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
The Classical Physics of our Quantum Universe [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Klaus Fredenhagen (University of Hamburg) |
Time in Quantum Mechanics: From An External Parameter to an Intrinsic Observable [ Slides ] [ Audio |
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| Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
A Holographic Description of Black Hole Singularities [ Slides ] [ Audio |
|
| Dan Larson (Penn State) - Welcoming Remarks |
1stAfternoon Chair: Ben Owen (IGC, Penn State)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Bernd Bruegmann (University of Jena) |
Numerical Relativity and Black Holes [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Badri Krishnan (AEI) | Searching for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Steve Fairhurst (University of Cardiff) |
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Systems [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
2ndAfternoon Chair: Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Jon Engle (Centre de Physique Theorique) |
Isolated Horizons: Ideas, Framework and Applications [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Alex Corichi (UNAM) | Black Hole Entropy [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Madhavan Varadarajan (Raman Research Institute) |
Quantum Gravity and the Information Loss Problem [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
Friday, June 5
Chair: Martin Bojowald (IGC, Penn State)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Theorique) |
What is a Particle? [ Slides ] [Audio ] |
| Robert Wald (University of Chicago) |
The Formulation of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime [ Slides ] [Audio ] |
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| Thomas Thiemann (AEI) | Canonical Quantum General Relativity [ Slides ] [Audio ] |
1st Afternoon Chair: Fernando Barbero (CSIC)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute) | Quantum Geometry from Spin Foam [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Jerzy Lewandowski (University of Warsaw) |
Spin Foams from Quantum Geometry [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute) | Unimodular Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
2nd Afternoon Chair: Joshua Goldberg (Syracuse University)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Claes Uggla (Karlstad University) | Generic Singularities [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Jim Isenberg (University of Oregon) |
Spin Foams from Quantum Geometry [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Naresh Dadhich (IUCAA) | On Gravitational Dynamics from Bianchi Derivative of the Curvature Polynomial [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
Saturday, June 6
Chair: Murat Gunaydin (IGC, Penn State)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Bernd Schmidt (Max Planck Institute, Potsdam) | The Newton Limit [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Rodolfo Gambini (Universidad de la Republica) | The Issue of Time in Generally Covariant Theories and Quantum Gravity [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) |
Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Its Present State [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |