Prospects for Causal Set Quantum Gravity

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Prospects for Causal Set Quantum Gravity

 07 - 11 Sep 2015

ICMS, 15 South College Street Edinburgh

Scientific Organiser

  • Graham Brightwell, London School of Economics
  • Fay Dowker, Imperial College London
  • Sumati Surya, Raman Research Institute

About:

The overall objective of this workshop was to assess progress made in the past few years in causal set theory. The meeting also aimed to stimulate mathematical work on causal sets as discrete models of spacetime. The meeting produced a road map of interlocking problems and projects whose solution constituted major progress towards quantum gravity

Speakers

  • David Rideout, University of California, - The Physics of Causal Sets: an Overview

  • Graham Brightwell, London School of Economics - The Mathematics of Causal Sets

  • Rafael Sorkin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - Further Evidence for the Hauptvermutung

  • Lisa Glaser, University of Nottingham - The Hartle-Hawking Wave Function in Causal Sets

  • Stefano Liberati, SISSA - Pathways in Quantum Gravity Phenomenology              

  • Dionigi Benincasa, SISSA - Nonlocal Dynamics from Causal Sets: an Overview of Recent Developments

  • Alessio Belenchia, SISSA - Universal Behaviour of Generalized Causal-Set d'Alembertians in Curved Spacetime

  • Mehdi Saravani, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - Spacetime Nonlocality and Dark Matter

  • Yasaman Yazdi, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - Challenges for Entanglement Entropy in Causal Sets 

  • David Mattingly, University of New Hampshire - Adapting Phenomenology for Causal Sets

  • Sumati Surya, Raman Research Institute - Topology in Causal Set Theory: a Review

  • Fay Dowker, Imperial College London - Inner Space, Outer Space: 100 Years of General Relativity

  • Edward Crane, University of Bristol - Random Antichains in the Intersection of Independent Uniform Random Orders

  • Nicholas Georgiou, Durham University - Poset Limits of Causal Sets

  • Rafael Sorkin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - A Schrödinger Representation on History-Space

  • Steven Carlip, University of California - Dimensional Reduction in Causal Set Theory

  • Astrid Eichhorn, Imperial College London - What Asymptotic Safety Could Tell Us About Quantum Gravity 

  • Renate Loll, Radboud University - Prospects for Causal Quantum Gravity 

  • Nosiphiwo Zwane, Perimiter Institute for Theoretical Physics - Everpresent Lambda and the CMB 

  • David Meyer, University of California - Can Ordinal Embedding Teach Us Anything About Causal Sets?

  • Christian Wüthrich, University of Geneva - What Becomes of a Causal Set

  • Ian Jubb, Imperial College London - Boundary Terms for Causal Sets

Sponsors and Funders:

We are grateful for the financial support from the Mathematical Physics Group of the Institute of Physics.