Program

Sunday June 9th is reserved for the students and faculty to travel to Bard and settle into their housing. Your rooms are reserved to include the night of Saturday June 15th. On Sunday June 16th we will have time to eat breakfast at Bard. The bus to Penn State will depart at 10:30am.
Time 6/10 Monday 6/11 Tuesday 6/12 Wednesday 6/13 Thursday 6/14 Friday 6/15 Saturday
9-10 Curved Space QFT (Ivan) 3D Gravity & Q Grps (Maïté) Quantum Cosmology (Ed) Boundary and Soft Modes (Laurent) Boundary and Soft Modes (Laurent)
10:10-
11:10
Covariant Quantum Gravity (Carlo) Quantum Cosmology (Ed) Boundary and Soft Modes (Laurent) Covariant Quantum Gravity (Carlo) Curved Space QFT (Ivan) Curved Space QFT (Ivan)
11:20-
12:30
Quantum Cosmology (Ed) 3D Gravity & Q Grps (Maïté) Curved Space QFT (Ivan) Boundary and Soft Modes (Laurent) Covariant Quantum Gravity (Carlo) 3D Gravity & Q Grps (Maïté)
12:30-
2
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
2-3 Boundary and Soft Modes (Laurent) Discussion & problem solving Discussion & problem solving Free Afternoon Discussion & problem solving Quantum Cosmology (Ed)
3:10-
4:10
Curved Space QFT (Ivan) Covariant Quantum Gravity (Carlo) Quantum Cosmology (Ed) Free Afternoon 3D Gravity & Q Grps (Maïté) Covariant Quantum Gravity (Carlo)
4:20-
5:20
3D Gravity & Q Grps (Maïté) Computing Lab (Boris, Pietro, Sebastian) Computing Lab (Boris, Pietro, Sebastian) Free Afternoon Computing Lab (Boris, Pietro, Sebastian) Discussion/
Overview of School
5:30-
6:30
Computing Lab (Boris, Pietro, Sebastian) Computing Lab (Boris, Pietro, Sebastian) Free Afternoon Computing Lab (Boris, Pietro, Sebastian)
7-
8
What is Time? (Carlo) Olin Hall

List of Participants

A full list of the school's participants: Participants.pdf.

Confirmed Lecturers

Ivan Agullo, Louisiana State University
Boris Bolliet, Jodrell Bank Center For Astrophysics (JBCA), The University of Manchester
Pietro Doná, Pennsylvania State University
Edward Wilson-Ewing, University of New Brunswick
Maïté Dupuis, University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institue for Theoretical Physics
Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Théorique, Aix-Marseille Université and Université de Toulon
Sebastian Steinhaus, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics