The workshop is organized by the Department of Physics & Astronomy at LSU and the Hearne Institute to profess Dr. Jorge Pullin's distinctive career. Jorge Pullin is Horace Hearne Chair with the Department of Physics & Astronomy and a faculty at Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. The workshop will bring together various collaborators and colleagues of Jorge from different areas of classical, quantum and numerical aspects of gravity. During his long and dynamical career, Jorge has published more than 200 research papers and 3 books on loop quantum gravity and has worked in all areas of gravitational physics including classical and quantum aspects, theoretical and experimental elements, foundational aspects of quantum theory and numerical relativity. Jorge's exemplary service to the community includes being the founding editor of Physical Review X, managing editor of International Journal of Modern Physics D, and editorial board of Living Reviews in Relativity, and starting International Loop Quantum Gravity seminars which have been run regularly by Jorge since 2006. He has been awarded various honors including the Fellow of American Physical Society and the American Association of Advancement of Science.

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

• Santosh Bhandari (University of Mississippi)

  “Action and Entanglement Entropy in Causal Sets Theory’’

• Paula Calizaya Cabrera (LSU)

  “Chaotic Behavior of the Bianchi IX Cosmological Model under Quantum Effects”

• Riley Dawkins (LSU)

  “Quantum field theory in quantum spacetimes: towards its realization in the laboratory”

• Adria Delhom (LSU)

  “A diffeomorphism invariant family of metric-affine actions for loop cosmologies”

• Rafael Dias (Florida Atlantic University)

  “Diffeomorphism Covariant Dynamics in Quantum Kantowski-Sachs”

• Sage Ducoing (LSU)

  “A quantum-assisted master clock in the sky – Quantum clock synchronization between satellites for global sub-nanosecond time distribution”

• Beatriz Elizaga-Navascues (LSU)

  “Comment on the volume operator in LQC”

• William Julius (Baylor University)

  “Applications of Curvature Invariants: A Review”

• Dimitris Kranas (LSU)

  “Stimulated Hawking effect and optical white-black holes”

• Meysam Motaharfar (LSU)

  “On the phenomenological uniqueness of AWE quantization of Bianchi I LQC”

• Geeth Ongole (Baylor University)

  “Dirac Observables in the 4-Dimensional Phase Space of Ashtekar’s Variables and Spherically Symmetric Loop Quantum Black Holes”

• Pan Rui (Baylor University)

  “Analytic studies of power spectra of cosmological perturbations and quasi-normal modes of black holes in loop quantum gravity”

Travel

All guests will be accommodated at the Cook Hotel on the LSU lakes. Group rates are available for participants. The Cook hotel is a 20 minute walk to Nicholson Hall.

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.

• LSU campus map
• Visit Baton Rouge
• 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