Fifth Tux winter workshop (2017)

 

When?

Monday, February 13 to Friday, February 17 2017

Where?

In the Tux Center, in the village of Tux, in the Austrian alps.

Tux in winter

What?

Topics covered by the conference include

• All approaches to loop quantum gravity (e.g. canonical, covariant, GFT)
• Other approaches to quantum gravity and their relation to LQG
• LQG related quantum gravity phenomenology
• Quantum gravity topics of general interest

This year, we specifically invite contributions concerning the continuum limit and renormalisation. More general and in particular pedagogical talks on these issues are highly welcome. While all other contributions are also welcome, we reserve the right to treat presentations targeting the topic of the workshop with preference.

Links to previous Tux meetings can be found here .

Organizers

• Norbert Bodendorfer <Norbert.Bodendorfer_at_googlemail.com>
• Christian Fleischhack <fleischh_at_math.uni-paderborn.de>
• Jerzy Lewandowski <Jerzy.Lewandowski_at_fuw.edu.pl>
• Hanno Sahlmann <hanno.sahlmann_at_gravity.fau.de>

Workshop venue

the workshop will be held at the Tux Center

Workshop dinner

is planned at the Höllenstein-Hütte.

 

Registration

Please register your participation in the workshop by email to

• Norbert Bodendorfer <Norbert.Bodendorfer_at_fuw.edu.pl>
• Hanno Sahlmann <hanno.sahlmann_at_gravity.fau.de>

as soon as practical, and before Dec 2016.

Please send title and abstract of your proposed talk to

• Norbert Bodendorfer <Norbert.Bodendorfer_at_fuw.edu.pl>

We in specifically invite contributions concerning the continuum limit and renormalisation. More generally, we encourage contributions which go beyond presenting current results, but focus on making some interesting point not necessarily based on ones own research or highlight connections between different topics. Since one of the main aims of this workshops is to generate discussion and interaction, such contributions are particularly welcome. Also, given time constraints due to an increasing number of participants each year, we reserve the right to treat such contributions with preference.

Travel and Housing

Housing can be booked via the tourist information in Tux. Please notice that the conference venue is in Tux-Lanersbach:

Tux-Center
Lanersbach 401
6293 Tux
www.tux-center.at

If you stay in Hintertux or in Finkenberg, you would have to take a bus to get there. Should you encounter any problems with finding accommodation, we are there to help. Please contact Norbert.Bodendorfer@fuw.edu.pl

The nearest international airports are Munich and Innsbruck. From there, Tux can be reached by bus, train, or shuttle. If you are interested in shuttle service, please check out

Four Seasons Travel
www.tirol-taxi.at
Tel: +43 512 584157
e-Mail: office@airport-transfer.com

They offer affordable two way transfer from Munich airport. They say a typical wait at the airport is 30 minutes. If a certain number of people arrive on the same plane and book together, there is a rebate.

If you come by public transport, the situation is as follows: The regular trains of the German and Austrian railway companies stop in Jenbach. From there, there is a train connection with the Ziller Valley Railway Company to Mayrhofen. Mayrhofen is some 15km from Tux, and there are buses that run between Mayrhofen and Tux. You can find the schedules as well as more detailed information on the travel page and the schedules page of the tourist information in Tux

If you arrive late or have to leave early, there might be no suitable connection between Jenbach and Tux. In this case, please let us know, and we will try to organize some kind of car transport for you.

Participants

The list of participants will be continually updated, so please check back later for more information.

Name	Affiliation	Country
Martin Ammon	University of Jena	Germany
Mehdi Assanioussi	Warsaw University	Poland
Benjamin Bahr	Hamburg University	Germany
Jakub Bilski	Fudan University	China
Piotr Bizoń	Jagiellonian University, Krakow	Poland
Norbert Bodendorfer	LMU Munich	Germany
Suddhasattwa Brahma	Fudan University	China
Goffredo Chirco	MPI Potsdam	Germany
Denis Dobkowski-Rylko	Warsaw University	Poland
Maciej Dunajski	Cambridge University	United Kingdom
Christian Fleischhack	University of Paderborn	Germany
Sergio Hörtner	CECs	Chile
Wojciech Kaminski	Warsaw University	Poland
Igor Kanatchikov	University of St. Andrews	Scotland
Alexander Kegeles	MPI Potsdam	Germany
Marcin Kisielowski	University Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany
Olaf Lechtenfeld	University of Hannover	Germany
Jerzy Lewandowski	Warsaw University	Poland
Klaus Liegener	University Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany
Chun-Yen Lin	Warsaw University	Poland
Ilkka Mäkinen	Warsaw University	Poland
Anupam Mazumdar	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
Jorge Pullin	Louisiana State University	United States
Giovanni Rabuffo	University of Hamburg	Germany
Saeed Rastgoo	UAMI, Mexico City	Mexico
Julian Rennert	University of Waterloo	Canada
Prakash Rijal	Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	Nepal
Michele Ronco	INFN Rome	Italy
Hanno Sahlmann	University Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany
Yajna Raj Sapkota	Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	Nepal
John Schliemann	University of Regensburg	Germany
Sebastian Steinhaus	University of Hamburg	Germany
Ruben Stienstra	Radboud University Nijmegen	The Netherlands
Alexander Stottmeister	University Tor Vergata, Rome	Italy
Yaser Tavakoli	University of Tehran	Iran
Tomasz Trzesniewki	University of Wroclaw	Poland
Wolfgang Wieland	Perimeter Institute	Canada
Edward Wilson-Ewing	MPI Potsdam	Germany
Cong Zhang	Warsaw University	Poland
Thomas Zilker	University Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany

Program

Below is the current version of the program.

Slides of the talks

The collection of slides will be continually updated, so please also check back later. If you want your slides to be included, please send them to hanno.sahlmann@gravity.fau.de with “Tux 2017: Slides” in the subject.

Name	Title
Mehdi Assanioussi	Approximation methods for the dynamics in Deparametrized LQG
Jakub Bilski	Coupling matter to Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity
Norbert Bodendorfer	State refinements and coarse graining in a full theory embedding of LQC
Maciej Dunajski	Einstein-Weyl Spaces and Near Horizon Geometry
Olaf Lechtenfeld	Calogero, spherically reduced and PT-deformed
Saeed Rastgoo	Emergent continuous spacetime via a geometric renormalization method
Julian Rennert	Timelike twisted geometries and a new spin foam model for 4D Lorentzian quantum gravity
Michele Ronco	Linking loop quantum gravity quantization ambiguities with phenomenology
Ruben Stienstra	Quantization of lattice gauge theories and their continuum limit
Alexander Stottmeister	On the semiclassical limit of quantum fields on quantum cosmological spacetimes
Tomasz Trzesniewski	LQG, the signature-changing Poincaré algebra and spectral dimension
Edward Wilson-Ewing	Perturbation theory in loop quantum cosmology with separate universes