Program

Quantum Gravity and Quantum Geometry (October 30-November 1, 2019)

All talks will take place in room HG00.303, Huygens Building, Radboud University Nijmegen

  Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00 Registration (main entrance Huygens Building)
   
  9:25: Opening by IMAPP-director Prof. Dr. H.T. Koelink    
9:30 – 10:20 Fathizadeh
The spectral action of multi-fractal Robertson-Walker cosmologies in terms of Bell polynomials and Brownian bridge path integrals
Cooperman
Destinations and Diversions on the Road to a Continuum Limit of Causal Dynamical Triangulations
Platania
Aspects of non-perturbative unitarity in Quantum Field Theory
10:20 – 11:10 Martinetti
The Standard Model in (twisted) Noncommutative Geometry
Gizbert-Studnicki
CDT on a torus
Anselmi
A predictive theory of quantum gravity from fake particles
Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:30 Trzesniewski
Spectral dimension vs dimension spectrum
Trugenberger
Can geometric space(-time) emerge from random bits?
Arici
Reflection positivity in higher derivative scalar theories
Lunch Break      
13:45 – 14:35 Husain
Matter-Gravity Entanglement in Quantum Gravity
Duplantier
Conformal Loop Ensemble and Liouville Quantum Gravity
Modanese
Metrics with zero and almost-zero Einstein action in quantum gravity
14:35 – 15:25 Mazumdar
Witnessing quantum entanglement of matter due to quantum gravity
Budd
Trees and fractal dimensions in 2d quantum gravity
Dittrich
Engineering of quantum geometries
Coffee Break      
16:00 – 16:50 Lionni
Recent developments on continuum limits of random graphs
Percacci
The Functional Renormalization Group and scale anomalies
 
16:50 – 17:40 Pereira
Quantum spacetime and the (functional) renormalization group