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Loop Quantum Cosmology Workshop
October 23 - 25, 2008
320 Whitmore Lab
Workshop Program
| Thursday, October 23 | ||
| Morning Session Chair: Abhay Ashtekar | ||
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcoming Remarks | |
| 9:15 - 10:15 | Beverly Berger - "Generic Singularities in (classical) Cosmological Spacetimes" | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Adam Henderson - "Tailoring BKL to Loop Quantum Gravity" | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Frans Pretorius - "Why Space-Time Behaves Homogeneously Near the Big Bang" | |
| 12:15 - 1:45 | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Beverly Berger | ||
| 1:45 - 3:00 | Abhay Ashtekar - "Loop Quantum Cosmology and Classical Singularities" | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Edward Wilson-Ewing - "Bianchi I and Loop Quantum Cosmology | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Tomasz Pawlowski - "The Role of Cosmological Constant in Loop Quantum Cosmology" | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Break | |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Discussion (Chair: Guillermo Mena) | |
| Friday, October 24 | ||
| Morning Session Chair: Martin Bojowald | ||
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Jerzy Lewandowski - "QFT in an Expanding Quantum Universe" | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Alex Corichi - "The Gowdy Model Without Quantum Geometry" | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Guillermo Mena - "Hybrid Quantization of the Gowdy Cosmologies" | |
| 12:15 - 1:45 | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Mairi Sakellariadou | ||
| 1:45 - 3:00 | Martin Bojowald - "Effective Equations" | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Artur Tsobanjan - "Effective Constraints" | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Mikhail Kagan - "Cosmological Perturbation Theory in Canonical Variables" | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Break | |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Discussion (Chair: Jerzy Lewandowski) | |
| Saturday, October 25 | ||
| Morning Session Chair: Seth Major | ||
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Parampreet Singh - "Loop Quantum Cosmology: Phenomenological Implications" | |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Mairi Sakellariadou - "Lattice Refinement in Loop Quantum Cosmology" | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Break | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | William Nelson - "Dark Energy from Corrections to the WdW Equation" | |
| 12:15 - 1:45 | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Alex Corichi | ||
| 1:45 - 2:15 | Michal Artymowski - "Loop Quantum Cosmology and Inflation" | |
| 2:15 - 2:45 | Gianluca Calcagni - "LQC Tensor Spectrum and Its Observability" | |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | Nicolas Yunes - "Inflation from Loop Quantum Gravity?" | |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | Tirtho Biswas - "Towards the Emergence of Cyclic Universes with Scale-Invariant Fluctuations" | |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Break | |
| 4:15 - 5:45 | Discussion | |