Program

Monday, April 14 Tuesday, April 15 Wednesday, April 16
8:30 – 9:00 Opening
9:00 – 9:50 Ashtekar Stelle deWit
9:50 – 10:40 Henneaux Hamber Marolf
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:50 Giddings Thiemann Discussion/
11:50 – 12:30 Discussion Discussion Summary
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
14:00 – 14:50 Kiefer Adam
14:50 – 15:40 Blumenhagen Freidel
15:40 – 16:20 Coffee Break Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:10 Meissner Reuter
17:10 – 18:00 Discussion Discussion

Titles :

I. Adam: Superstring perturbation theory
A. Ashtekar: Loop quantum cosmology: a status report
R. Blumenhagen: The landscape of string vacua
B. de Wit: Supergravity and M theory
L. Freidel: Status of spin foam models
S. Giddings: Black Holes, high energy scattering, and locality
H. Hamber: Lattice quantum gravity
M. Henneaux
: Cosmological billiards and hidden symmetries of gravity
C. Kiefer: Quantum Geometrodynamics: whence, whither?
D. Marolf: Black Holes, AdS, and CFTs
K. Meissner: Background independence: a particle physicist’s view
M. Reuter: Asymptotically safe quantum gravity
K. Stelle: Finiteness (or not) of N=8 supergravity
T. Thiemann: Loop quantum gravity

Discussion/Summary: Ashtekar, Blau, Giddings, Reuter, Stelle

Session chairs:

M. Blau
D. Giulini
H. Nicolai
K. Peeters
S. Theisen