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Loop Quantum Cosmology Workshop Proceedings
320 Whitmore
These proceedings were prepared by Gianluca Calcagni and Adam Henderson
Thursday, October 23
Chair: Abhay Ashtekar (IGC, Penn State)
| Classical Singularities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Beverly K. Berger (National Science Foundation) | Generic Singularities in (Classical) Cosmological Spacetimes [ Slides ] [ Audio ] [ Movies (zip) ] |
| Adam Henderson (IGC, Penn State) | Tailoring BKL to Loop Quantum Gravity [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Frans Pretorius (Princeton University) | Exploring the Smoothing Power of the Ekpyrotic Mechanism [ Slides ] [ Audio ] [ Movies (zip) ] |
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Chair: Beverly Berger (National Science Foundation)
| Homogeneous Loop Quantum Cosmology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 1:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Abhay Ashtekar (IGC, Penn State) | Singularity Resolution in LQC: An Overview [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Edward Wilson-Ewing (IGC, Penn State) | Bianchi I and Loop Quantum Cosmology [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Tomasz Pawlowski (IEM(CSIC), Spain) | The Role of Cosmological Constant in LQC [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
|
Friday, October 24
Chair: Martin Bojowald (IGC, Penn State)
| Inhomogeneous Loop Quantum Cosmology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw University, Poland) | QFT in the Expanding Quantum Spacetime [ Slides ] [Audio ] |
| Alex Corichi (UNAM, Mexico) | Gowdy T^3 Model: Fock Quantization [ Slides ] [Audio ] |
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| Guillermo A. Mena Marugan (IEM(CSIC), Spain) | Hybrid Quantization of the Gowdy Cosmologies [ Slides ] [Audio ] |
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Chair: Mairi Sakellariadou (Kings College London)
| Effective Equations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 1:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Martin Bojowald (IGC, Penn State) | Effective Equations [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Artur Tsobanjan (IGC, Penn State) | Effective Constraints [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Mikhail Kagan (IGC, Penn State) | Cosmological Perturbations Theory in Canonical Variables [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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Chair: Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw University, Poland)
| Discussion | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Victor Taveras (IGC, Penn State) | Corrections to the Friedmann Equations in LQC from Geometric Quantum Mechanics [ Slides ] |
Saturday, October 25
Chair: Seth Major (Hamilton College)
| Loop Quantum Gravity Phenomenology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Parampreet Singh (Perimeter Institute, Canada) | Loop Quantum Cosmology: Phenomenological Implications (Physics of Singularity Resolution) [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Mairi Sakellariadou (Kings College London) | Lattice Refinement in Loop Quantum Cosmology [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| William Nelson (Kings College London) | Dark Energy from Corrections to the WdW Equation [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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Chair: Alex Corichi (UNAM, Mexico)
| Loop Quantum Cosmology, Inflation, and the CMB | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Michal Artymowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) | Loop Quantum Cosmology Holonomy Corrections to Inflationary Models [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
| Gianluca Calcagni (IGC, Penn State) | Tensor Modes in Loop Quantum Cosmology [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Nico Yunes (Princeton) | A Futuristic Talk: The Barbero-Immirzo "Field" and Inflation [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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| Tirtho Biswas (IGC, Penn State) | Towards Scale Invariant Cyclic Universes [ Slides ] [ Audio ] |
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Chair: Kevin Vandersloot (Portsmouth)
| Discussion | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Don Salisbury (Austin College) | General Covariance, Observables, and Emergent Time [ Slides ] |