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

Workshop sponsored by the Center for Fundamental Theory

Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University