First FLAG meeting “The Quantum and Gravity”

28 May 2014, 13:00 → 30 May 2014, 18:10 Europe/Rome

Aula 4 - Piano -1 (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia)

Alessandro Tronconi (BO), Alexander Kamenshchik, Gian Paolo Vacca (BO), Roberto Casadio (BO)

The first meeting organised by the I.N.F.N. research network FLAG (FieLds And Gravity) devoted to the fundamental gravitational interaction and the theoretical study of cosmology and black holes.
Aim of the event is to bring together researchers in the fields of our network, present new ideas and stimulate discussion of topics at the frontier of physics.
This event is partnered with SIGRAV School in Como
Social dinner Ristorante Cesari

Poster

• FLAG_people.jpg
• PosterFLAG:2.jpg
• Poster_FLAG.jpeg

Wednesday, 28 May

14:00 → 14:30 Welcoming Address

Convener: Dr R. Casadio

14:30 → 17:20 Session 1

Convener: Prof. S. Zerbini

14:30 Cosmology from Planck

Speaker: Dr A. Gruppuso

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 When Higgs met Einstein

Speaker: Dr M. Rinaldi

Slides Rinaldi_Higgs.pdf

16:00 Hydrostatic equilibrium and stellar structure in f(r)-gravity

Speaker: Prof. S. Capozziello

Slides Capozziello_Bologna.pdf

16:50 A functional RG equation for the c-function

Speaker: Dr C. Pagani

Slides Pagani_fRGCfunction.pdf

17:20 → 18:30 FLAG round table

Discussion restriced to FLAG members

Thursday, 29 May

09:30 → 12:30 Session 2

Convener: Dr R. Percacci

09:30 Models of asymptotically safe inflation

Speaker: Dr A. Bonanno

Slides Bonanno_flagmeeting.pdf

10:20 RG flows of quantum Einstein gravity on maximally symmetric spaces

Speaker: Dr F. Saueressig

Slides Saueressig_FLAG.pdf

11:10 Coffe break

11:40 Averaging the luminosity redshift relation: from theory to observations

Speaker: Dr G. Marozzi

12:30 → 14:00 Buffet Lunch

14:00 → 17:50 Session 3

Convener: Dr A. Kamenshchik

14:00 Consequences of the announced discovery of primordial gravitational waves for the inflationary scenario

Speaker: Prof. A. Starobinsky

Slides Starobinsky_Bologna14.pdf

14:50 Thermal power spectrum in the CFT driven cosmology

Speaker: Prof. A. Barvinsky

Slides Barvinsky_ThermalCMB.pdf

15:40 Coffe break

16:10 Effective theory for quantum gravity and inflation

Speaker: Dr X. Calmet

Slides Calmet_ETQGInflation.pdf

17:00 Geometric scalar theory of gravity

Speaker: Prof. M. Novello

20:00 → 22:00 Conference dinner

www.da-cesari.it

Friday, 30 May

09:30 → 12:30 Session 4

Convener: Prof. U. Moschella

09:30 Journey to the un-world

Speaker: Dr P. Nicolini

Slides Nicolini_FLAG2014.pdf

10:20 Quantum black hole wave packet: average area entropy and temperature dependent width

Speaker: Prof. A. Davidson

Slides Davidson_BHwave.pdf

11:10 Coffee break

11:40 Last gasp of a black hole: unitary evaporation implies non-monotonous mass loss

Speaker: Dr E. Bianchi

12:30 → 14:00 Buffet Lunch

14:00 → 17:50 Session 5

Convener: Dr G. Cognola

14:00 A corpuscular theory of black holes and inflation

Speaker: Prof. G. Dvali

14:50 The Planck scale

Speaker: Prof. J. Barrett

15:40 Coffee break

16:10 Restricted and full 3-body problem in effective field theories of gravity

Speaker: Dr G. Esposito

Slides EspositoPRD.pdf

17:00 The Quantum Hoop Conjecture

Speaker: Dr O. Micu

Slides Micu_Fuzzy.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 Closing remarks

Convener: Dr R. Casadio