Conference Description
The international conference Loops'19 will be held at the University Park campus of Penn State from Monday, June 17 through Friday, June 21, 2019. Loops'19 is the most recent conference in a long tradition of biannual meetings focused on loop quantum gravity and background independent approaches to quantum gravity.
Invited plenary speakers include:
- Ivan Agullo (LSU)
- Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State)
- Benjamin Bahr (DESY)
- Norbert Bodendorfer (U. Regensburg)
- Valentin Bonzom (U. Paris 13)
- Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter)
- Pietro Dona (Penn State)
- Florian Girelli (U. Waterloo)
- Janet Ling-Yan Hung (Fudan U.)
- Jerzy Lewandowski (U. Warsaw)
- Beatriz Elizaga Navascués (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- Karim Noui (U. Tours)
- Javier Olmedo (LSU)
- Tomasz Pawlowski (U. Wroclaw)
- Alejandro Perez (CPT Marseille)
- Alessia Platania (Heidelberg U.)
- Suvrat Raju (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)
- Carlo Rovelli (CPT Marseille)
- Thomas Thiemann (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- Yidun Wan (Fudan U.)
The scientific program of Loops'19 will highlight recent developments in quantum gravity research, structural and computational aspects of loop quantum gravity, applications to black hole physics and cosmology. The conference is preceded by the Loops'19 Summer School held at Bard College (NY) on June 09 - 16, 2019 and followed by the IGC@25 conference celebrating the 25 years of the Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos, also held at Penn State on June 24 - 27, 2019.
