Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, LIII Course, 2013

Lecturers

  1. Jan AMBJORN (NBI Copenhagen) Causal Dynamical Triangulation: a Theory of Quantum Geometry (pdf)
  2. Abhay ASHTEKAR (Penn State) Quantum Gravity and Cosmology** (1.pdf), (2.pdf)
  3. Andrzej BIALAS (Jagiellonian Univ. and PAU) Special Lecture: Marian Miesowicz and Jan Kwiecinski (pdf)
  4. Eugenio BIANCHI (Perimeter Inst.) Spinfoam Gravity: Progress and Perspectives (1.pdf), (2.pdf), (3.pdf)
  5. Piotr BIZON (Jagiellonian Univ.) Is AdS stable?
  6. Damir BUSKULIC (LAPP Annecy) Gravitational Waves Search I (pdf)
  7. Andrzej GOERLICH (Jagiellonian Univ.) Introduction to 4D Causal Dynamical Triangulation (pdf)
  8. Romuald JANIK (Jagiellonian Univ.) Hydrodynamics of Non-Equlibrium Physics and AdS/CFT - the Numeraical Relativity Connection (pdf)
  9. Jerzy JURKIEWICZ (Jagiellonian Univ.) Simplicial Gravity**
  10. Ilya MANDEL (Univ.of Birmingham) Gravitational Waves Search II
  11. Tomasz PAWLOWSKI (Univ. of Warsaw) Loop Quantum Gravity & Cosmology: a Primer (pdf)
  12. Roger PENROSE* (Univ. of Oxford) Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (1.mp4), (2.mp4)
  13. Hans RINGSTRÖM (KTH Stockholm) Cauchy Problem in General Relativity (two blackboard talks), (pdf)
  14. Steve SHARPE (Univ. of Washington) Special Lecture: Can Eguchi-Kawai Reduction Provide a Practical Method for Studying Large-N(color) Theories on the Lattice? (pdf)
  15. Andrzej SITARZ (Jagiellonian Univ.) Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry
  16. Ulrich SPERHAKE (Univ. of Cambridge) Black Holes on Supercomputers: Numerical Relativity Applications to Astrophysics and High-Energy Physics (pdf)
  17. Thomas THIEMANN (FAU Erlangen) Foundations of Loop Quantum Gravity (blackboard talk)
  18. David TONG (Univ. of Cambridge) Conductivity from Holography (blackboard talk)
  19. Robert M. WALD (Univ. of Chicago) Thermodynamics and Stability of Black Holes (pdf)
  20. Toby WISEMAN (Imperial College) Numerical General Relativity in the Context of AdS/CFT (pdf)

* - video lecture, ** - cancelled

Seminar speakers (tentative)

  1. Fabio ANZA (Pisa) Twisted Geometries and Secondary Constraints (pdf)
  2. Béatrice BONGA (Penn State) Quantum Gravitational Fluctuations of a Time Delay Observable in the Minkowski Vacuum of Linearized Gravity (pdf)
  3. Philipp BURDA (Durham) Lifshitz solutions and flows in Type IIB Supergravity (pdf)
  4. Raul CARBALLO (Inst. de Astrofis. de Andalucia) Emergent Electrodynamics in Helium-3 (pdf)
  5. Michal ECKSTEIN (Krakow UJ) An Algebraic Formulation of Causality for Noncommutative Geometry (pdf)
  6. Hugo FERREIRA (Nottingham) Classical Stability and Quantum Effects of Warped AdS3 Black Holes in Topologically Massive Gravity (pdf)
  7. Jakub GIZBERT-STUDNICKI (Krakow, UJ) The Effective Action in 4-dim CDT (pdf)
  8. Jeffrey HAZBOUN (Utah State Univ.) Lorentzian Geometry from the Conformal Symmetry of Euclidean Space
  9. Joanna JALMUZNA (Krakow, UJ) Globally Regular Instability of AdS_3 (pdf)
  10. Benito JUAREZ AUBRY (Nottingham) Onset of Hawking Radiation in 1+1 Dimensions (pdf)
  11. Aruna KESAVAN (Penn State) Kerr Killing Tensor and Conserved Quantities for Fields (pdf)
  12. Carmen LI (Edinburgh) Uniqueness of Extreme Horizons in Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory (pdf)
  13. Kinjalk LOCHAN (Tata Inst., Mumbai) Statistical Analysis of Entropy Correction from Topological Defects in Loop Black Holes (pdf)
  14. Abhishek MAJHI (Saha Inst., Kolkata) Microcanonical Entropy of Quantum Isolated Horizon from Chern-Simons Theory and Fixation of the Immirzi Parameter (pdf)
  15. Maciej MALIBORSKI (Krakow, UJ) Time-periodic Solutions in Einstein AdS - Massless Scalar Field System (pdf)
  16. Marius OLTEAN (McGill) Gravitational Waves from Preheating in Matrix Inflation (pdf)
  17. Yen Chin ONG (Leung Center, Nat. Taiwan Univ.) Problems with Nonlinearity in Modified Gravity Theories (pdf)
  18. Leslaw RACHWAL (ICTP & SISSA, Trieste) Higher Conformal Couplings of Scalar Fields from Weyl Gauge Theory (pdf)
  19. Marcos RAMIREZ (Univ. Nac. de Córdoba) Splitting Thin Shells and the Evolution of Distributional Solutions of Einstein Equations (pdf)
  20. Scott SMITH (Nijmegen) Causal Aspects of Generalised Causal Dynamical Triangulation (pdf)
  21. Sara TAVARES (Nottingham) Gravity and Non-Commutative Geometry: an Alternative Bridge (pdf)
  22. Reiko TORIUMI (UC, Irvine) Discrete Wheeler DeWitt Equation in 2+1 Dimensions (pdf)
  23. Przemyslaw WITASZCZYK (Krakow, UJ) On the Hydrodynamic Gradient Expansion of Holographic Fluid (pdf)