QGQGS 2011
February 28 - March 13, 2011
Zakopane, Poland
published January 11, 2013
The purpose of the school is to provide current PhD students, potdocs and other researchers with an up-to-date introduction to the main research topics of the network: loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, matrix models, and the application of non-commutative geometry and quantum groups to quantum gravity as well as more recent developments like group field theory. The emphasize will be on progress made during the four years of the ESF network program Quantum geometry and Quantum Gravity.

Editorial Board: John Barrett, Kristina Giesel, Frank Hellmann (Chairman), Larisa Jonke, Thomas Krajewski, Jerzy Lewandowski, Carlo Rovelli, Hanno Sahlmann, Harold Steinacker.

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Sessions
CORE LECTURES:
AUXILIARY LECTURES:
EXTENDED CONTRIBUTIONS:
CORE LECTURES:
Opening lecture
A. Ashtekar
Loop Quantum Gravity
K. Giesel and H. Sahlmann
Spin Foams
C. Rovelli
Non-commutative geometry and matrix models
H. Steinacker
Group Field Theories
T. Krajewski
AUXILIARY LECTURES:
Loop Quantum Cosmology
Asymptotic analysis of Lorentzian spin foam models
J. Barrett, R. Dowdall, W. Fairbairn, F. Hellmann and R. Pereira
Geometry of the Grosse-Wulkenhaar model
M. Buric and J. Madore
Renormalisation of the Grosse-Wulkenhaar model
H. Grosse and R. Wulkenhaar
How to construct diffeomorphism symmetry on the lattice
B. Dittrich
Volume operator
J. Brunemann
Quantum deformation of two four-dimensional spin foam models
W. Fairbairn and C. Meusburger
EXTENDED CONTRIBUTIONS:
Spinor and Twistors for LQG and Spin Foams
S. Speziale, M. Dupuis and J. Tambornino
New Variables for Classical and Quantum (Super)-Gravity in all Dimensions
N. Bodendorfer, T. Thiemann and A. Thurn
Quantum isolated horizons and black hole entropy
F. Barbero, J. Lewandowski and E.J.S. Villasenor
U(N) and holomorphic methods for LQG and Spin Foams
E.F. Borja, J. Diaz Polo and I. Garay
The dynamics of the massless scalar field coupled to LQG in the polymer quantization
M. Domagala, M. Dziendzikowski and J. Lewandowski