Quantum Gravity Workshop

Quantum Gravity Workshop
UNB - Fredericton, New Brunswick
April 28 - 29, 2005

AARMS

Speakers

Martin Bojowald
- Background Independence and the Small-Scale Behavior of Gravity
Saurya Das
- Black Holes in Future Colliders: Properties and Signatures
Gabor Kunstatter
- Universality of Highly Damped Quasinormal-Modes of Generic Single Horizon Black Holes
Jorma Louko
- Group Averaging, Positive Definiteness and Superselection Sectors
John Madore
- Quantum Mechanics in Curved Space and Noncommutative Geometry; the Kasner Metric as Paradigm
Frederic Schuller
- Quantum Black Hole Obstructions

This is a two day workshop combined with the annual one day Atlantic Relativity Mini-Conference on Saturday, April 30. It is sponsored by the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) and the University of New Brunswick. The focus of the workshop will be:

construction of background-independent qft
classical gravity as an emergent phenomena
experimental signatures of quantum gravity

Schedule

Thursday, April 28 - Tilley Hall 404

9:15-9:30 Introduction

9:30-11:00 John Madore - Quantum Mechanics in Curved Space and Noncommutative Geometry; the Kasner Metric as Paradigm

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-1:00 Martin Bojowald - Background Independence and the Small-Scale Behavior of Gravity

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Jorma Louko - Group Averaging, Positive Definiteness and Superselection Sectors

3:30-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-4:40 Wade Cherrington - The Face Factoring Method for Lorentzian Spin Foams

4:40-5:20 Discussion

Friday, April 29 - Tilley Hall 404

9:30-11:00 Gabor Kunstatter - Universality of Highly Damped Quasinormal-Modes of Generic Single Horizon Black Holes

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-1:00 Frederic Schuller - Quantum Black Hole Obstructions

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Saurya Das - Black Holes in Future Colliders: Properties and Signatures

3:30-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Discussion

7:00- Dinner

Particpants will include Ivan Booth, Joel Brownstein, Wade Cherrington, Arundhati Dasgupta, Jack Gegenberg, Viqar Husain, Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz, Igor Khavkine, Jason LeBlanc, Woei Chet Lim, Bob McKellar, Nicos Pelavas, Frederic Schuller, Brian Tupper, Mattias Wohlfarth, and Roustam Zalaletdinov.

Atlantic Relativity Mini-Conference
UNB - Fredericton, New Brunswick
April 30, 2005

We have planned a regional meeting of people in the Atlantic region of Canada and the neighbouring states in the USA. These meetings have been occurring on a more or less regular basis for many years, and have been jointly organized by the relativity groups at Dalhousie University, University of New Brunswick and l'Université de Moncton.

We invite all participants - faculty, postdocs and grad students - to give a short, perhaps 30 minute, talk. This year, the meeting will be at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton on Saturday, April 30. We will arrange time slots for talks, as we receive titles/abstracts.

Saturday, April 30 - Tilley Hall 404

9:00-9:40 Ivan Booth - Marginally Trapped Tubes and Dynamical Horizons

9:40-10:20 Woei Chet Lim - Spiky Spatial Inhomogeneities

10:20-11:00 Nicos Pelavas - Comparing VSI₁ and VSI Spacetimes

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:10 Roustam Zalaletdinov - The Gravitational Polarization in General Relativity: Solution to Szekeres' Model of Quadrupole Polarization

12:10-12:50 Mattias Wohlfarth - Dynamics of Smooth Approximations to Quantum Spacetimes

12:50-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:40 Arundhati Dasgupta - Coherent States for Black Holes

2:40-3:20 Jack Gegenberg - Gödel Geometry and Noncommutativity

3:20-4:00 Viqar Husain - Singularity Resolution and Quantum Horizons

4:00-4:30 Coffee break

Please contact the organizers for both the Workshop and the Mini-Conference at qg1@math.unb.ca as soon as possible if you can participate, whether you will give a talk, and if you would like to be billeted, or get some information on local hotels/B&Bs.

We recommend that you make arrangements at the following 2 accommodations. Both are within walking distance of the university.

Lord Beaverbrook Hotel

Carriage House Inn (B&B)

We will be updating this website as soon as more information becomes available.

Last updated: 2005/04/28