The conference will be held in 130 Nicholson Hall at the Department of Physics & Astronomy at LSU. To attend the conference please register by sending an email to Param Singh. There is no registration fee.
(Registration for the workshop is now closed.)
Speakers
- Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State
- Miguel Campiglia, Universidad de la República (Montevideo)
- Alejandro Corichi, UNAM Morelia
- Mario Diaz, University of Texas at Brownsville
- Anamaria Effler, LIGO
- Rodolfo Gambini, Universidad de la República (Montevideo)
- Pablo Laguna, The University of Texas at Austin
- Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute
- Jerzy Lewandowski, University of Warsaw
- Ling Miao, Physical Review X, American Physical Society
- Javier Olmedo, Universidad de Granada
- Richard Price, MIT
- Carlo Rovelli, University of Western Ontario
- Thomas Thiemann, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Erlangen)
- Manuel Tiglio, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Program
Posters
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Santodh Bhandari (University of Mississippi)
“Action and Entanglement Entropy in Causal Sets Theory’’
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Paula Calizaya Cabrera (LSU)
“Chaotic Behavior of the Bianchi IX Cosmological Model under Quantum Effects”
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Riley Dawkins (LSU)
“Quantum field theory in quantum spacetimes: towards its realization in the laboratory”
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Adria Delhom (LSU)
“A diffeomorphism invariant family of metric-affine actions for loop cosmologies”
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Rafael Dias (Florida Atlantic University)
“Diffeomorphism Covariant Dynamics in Quantum Kantowski-Sachs”
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Sage Ducoing (LSU)
“A quantum-assisted master clock in the sky – Quantum clock synchronization between satellites for global sub-nanosecond time distribution”
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Beatriz Elizaga-Navascues (LSU)
“Comment on the volume operator in LQC”
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William Julius (Baylor University)
“Applications of Curvature Invariants: A Review”
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Dimitris Kranas (LSU)
“Stimulated Hawking effect and optical white-black holes”
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Meysam Motaharfar (LSU)
“On the phenomenological uniqueness of AWE quantization of Bianchi I LQC”
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Geeth Ongole (Baylor University)
“Dirac Observables in the 4-Dimensional Phase Space of Ashtekar’s Variables and Spherically Symmetric Loop Quantum Black Holes”
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Pan Rui (Baylor University)
“Analytic studies of power spectra of cosmological perturbations and quasi-normal modes of black holes in loop quantum gravity”
Travel
LSU can be easily reached by all major airlines to Baton Rouge airport (BTR). Guests can also arrive at the New Orleans airport (MSY) and use an airport shuttle.
If you need to park on campus, you can get a visitor parking permit
Dining options
There are many dining options in and around campus and at the Cook hotel. See map below for options.
Lunch options on March 17: LSU Student Union, The 459 Commons
Lunch options on March 18: LSU Student Union, restaurants near LSU