QUARKS-2020

Session

Quantum Gravity and Cosmology

Jun 4, 2021, 10:45 AM

65. Opening remarks

Andrei Barvinsky (Lebedev Inst. RAS, Moscow)

6/4/21, 10:45 AM

66. The mixed R^2-Higgs inflationary model

Alexei Starobinsky (Landau Inst. RAS, Moscow)

6/4/21, 11:00 AM

67. Conformal cyclic cosmology: why quantum gravity does not resolve the space-time singularity issue

Roger Penrose (Oxford U.)

6/4/21, 11:45 AM

68. Holographic cosmology and the resolution of the initial singularity

Kostas Skenderis (U. of Southampton)

6/4/21, 12:30 PM

69. The cosmological constant in supergravity and string theory

Ignatios Antoniadis (LPTHE—CNRS—Sorbonne U., France & KU Leuven)

6/4/21, 2:30 PM

70. Cosmology with inverse phase transition

Dmitry Gorbunov (INR RAS, Moscow)

6/4/21, 3:15 PM

71. Reheating in Higgs–R^2 inflation

Fedor Bezrukov (U. of Manchester)

6/4/21, 4:00 PM

72. Einstein-Cartan gravity and Higgs inflation

Sebastian Zell (EPFL, Lausanne)

6/4/21, 4:45 PM

73. Initial conditions for inflation

Andrei Linde (Stanford U.)

6/4/21, 6:00 PM

74. Vacuum energy of the Universe, large scale magnetic field and nontrivial topology in Quantum Field Theory

Ariel Zhitnitsky (U. of British Columbia, Vancouver)

6/4/21, 6:45 PM

75. Primordial black holes

Misao Sasaki (Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa & U. of Tokyo)

6/5/21, 10:00 AM

76. Formation of primordial black holes after Starobinsky inflation in modified supergravity

Sergey Ketov (Tokyo Metropolitan U. & Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa)

6/5/21, 10:45 AM

77. Semiclassical S-matrix and black hole entropy in dilaton gravity

Dmitry Levkov (INR RAS, Moscow)

6/5/21, 11:30 AM

79. Quantum extremal islands made easy

Robert Myers (Perimeter Inst., Waterloo)

6/5/21, 3:00 PM

80. Replica wormholes and the information paradox

Tom Hartman (Cornell U.)

6/5/21, 3:45 PM

81. Black hole induced false vacuum decay from first principles

Andrey Shkerin (U. of Minnesota)

6/5/21, 4:30 PM

82. Path integral for gravity

Neil Turok (U. of Edinburgh)

6/5/21, 6:00 PM

83. The impact of cosmology on quantum mechanics

James Hartle (U. of California, Santa Barbara)

6/5/21, 6:45 PM

78. Black Holes in Ultraviolet-Complete Horava Gravity

Sergei Sibiryakov (Perimeter Inst., Waterloo)

6/5/21, 7:30 PM

84. Quantum tests of (quantum) gravity

Markus Aspelmeyer (U. of Vienna & IQOQI)

6/6/21, 5:00 PM

85. Quantum superposition of massive bodies

Robert Wald (U. of Chcago)

6/6/21, 5:45 PM

86. Frequency interferometry and BEC measurement of acceleration radiation

William Unruh (UBC, Vancouver)

6/6/21, 6:30 PM

87. Correlated worldline theory of quantum gravity

Philip Stamp (Pacific Inst. of Theoretical Physics & U. of British Columbia, Vancouver)

6/6/21, 7:15 PM

88. Conformal symmetry: towards the link between the Fermi and the Planck scales

Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL, Lausanne)

6/7/21, 10:00 AM

89. Non-singular cosmological models with strong gravity in the past

Valeri Rubakov (INR RAS, Moscow)

6/7/21, 10:45 AM

2

90. Renormalization group inspired autonomous equations for secular effects in de Sitter space

Alexander Kamenshchik (U. of Bologna & Landau Inst. RAS, Moscow)

6/7/21, 11:30 AM

2

91. Non-local R^2 -like inflation, gravitational waves and non- gaussianities

Korumilli Sravan Kumar (Tokyo Inst. of Technology)

6/7/21, 12:15 PM

2

92. A perturbative continuum limit for quantum gravity

Tim Morris (U. of Southampton)

6/7/21, 2:00 PM

2

93. Form factors in quantum gravity

Frank Saueressig (Radboud U., Nijmegen)

6/7/21, 2:45 PM

2

94. Quantizing the analytic infinite derivative gravity theory: propagator and unitarity

Alexei Koshelev (U. da Beira Interior, Covilha)

6/7/21, 3:30 PM

2

95. Quantum gravity, RG equations and the recurrence pole relations

Sergey Solodukhin (U. de Tours)

6/7/21, 4:15 PM

2

96. Black holes in a limiting curvature theory of gravity

Valeri Frolov (U. of Alberta)

6/7/21, 6:00 PM

2

97. Quantization of gravity in the black hole background

Renata Kallosh (Stanford U.)

6/7/21, 6:45 PM

2

98. How inflationary gravitons affect gravitational radiation and the force of gravity

Richard Woodard (U. of Florida, Gainesville)

6/8/21, 10:00 AM

2

99. Towards a ghost-free theory of quantum gravity

Luca Buoninfante (Tokyo Inst. of Technology)

6/8/21, 10:45 AM

2

100. Black hole perturbations in modified gravity

David Langlois (APC, Paris)

6/8/21, 11:30 AM

2

101. Domain walls without a potential

Cedric Deffayet (CNRS IAP & IHES, Paris)

6/8/21, 12:15 PM

2

102. Instantons with quantum core

Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU, Munich)

6/8/21, 3:00 PM

2

103. Smarr formulas and rod structure

Dmitry Galtsov (Lomonosov Moscow State U.)

6/8/21, 3:45 PM

2

co-authors: Gerard Clement (LAPTH, Annecy) & Igor Bogush (Moscow State U.)

104. Global dynamics for Newton and Planck

Alexander Vikman (CEICO, Inst. of Physics, Prague)

6/8/21, 4:30 PM

2

105. Shadows around at the Galactic Center and at M87* as a tool to test gravity theories

Alexander Zakharov (ITEP, Moscow)

6/8/21, 5:15 PM

2

159. Closing remarks

Andrei Barvinsky (Lebedev Inst. RAS)

6/8/21, 6:00 PM

162. Closing Remarks