Courses and Invited Talks


Courses:
  1. A. Ashtekar  (PSU, USA):  Quantum Geometry
  2. A. P. Balachandran  (Syracuse, USA):  Quantum Physics with Time-Space Noncommutativity
  3. P. T. Chrusciel  (Tours, France):  Selected Problems in Classical Gravity
  4. R. Kallosh (Stanford, USA):  De Sitter Vacua in String Theory and the String Landscape
  5. A. Peet (Toronto, Canada):  Black Holes in String Theory
  6. C. Rovelli  (Marseille, France):  Loop Quantum Gravity and Spinfoams

Plenary talks:
  1. J. D. Barrow (Cambridge, UK):  Cosmological Constants and Variations
  2. M. Bojowald  (AEI, Germany):  Loop Quantum Cosmology
  3. A. Corichi (ICN-UNAM, Mexico):  Black Holes and Quantum Gravity
  4. A. Linde (Stanford, USA):  Inflation and String Theory
  5. O. Obregon (U. Guanajuato, Mexico):  Noncommutativity in Gravity, Topological Gravity and Cosmology
  6. A. Perez  (PSU, USA):  Selected Topics on Spin Foams
  7. L. Smolin  (PITP, Canada):  Loops and Strings
  8. R. Wald  (U. Chicago, USA):  Topics on Quantum Field Theory

Short talks:
  1. E. Caceres (CINVESTAV, Mexico):  Wrapped D-branes and confining gauge theories
  2. A. Guijosa (ICN-UNAM, Mexico):  Far-from-Extremal Black Holes from Branes and Antibranes
  3. H. Morales (UAM, Mexico):  Semiclassical Aspects and Phenomenology of Loop Quantum Gravity
  4. D. Sudarsky  (ICN-UNAM, Mexico):  Spacetime Granularity and Lorentz Invariance
  5. L. Urrutia (ICN-UNAM, Mexico):  Synchrotron Radiation in Lorentz-Violating Effective Electrodynamics