Courses and Invited Talks
Courses:
- A. Ashtekar (PSU, USA): Quantum Geometry
- A. P. Balachandran (Syracuse, USA): Quantum
Physics with Time-Space Noncommutativity
- P. T. Chrusciel (Tours,
France): Selected
Problems in Classical Gravity
- R. Kallosh (Stanford, USA): De Sitter Vacua in
String Theory and the String Landscape
- A. Peet (Toronto, Canada): Black Holes in
String Theory
- C. Rovelli (Marseille,
France): Loop
Quantum Gravity and Spinfoams
Plenary talks:
- J. D. Barrow (Cambridge, UK): Cosmological
Constants and Variations
- M. Bojowald (AEI, Germany): Loop Quantum
Cosmology
- A. Corichi (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Black Holes and
Quantum Gravity
- A. Linde (Stanford, USA): Inflation and
String Theory
- O. Obregon (U. Guanajuato, Mexico):
Noncommutativity
in Gravity, Topological Gravity and Cosmology
- A. Perez (PSU, USA): Selected Topics on
Spin Foams
- L. Smolin (PITP, Canada):
Loops
and Strings
- R. Wald (U. Chicago, USA): Topics on Quantum
Field Theory
Short talks:
- E. Caceres (CINVESTAV, Mexico): Wrapped D-branes
and confining gauge theories
- A. Guijosa (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Far-from-Extremal
Black Holes from Branes and Antibranes
- H. Morales (UAM, Mexico): Semiclassical
Aspects and Phenomenology of Loop Quantum Gravity
- D. Sudarsky (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Spacetime
Granularity and Lorentz Invariance
- L. Urrutia (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Synchrotron
Radiation in Lorentz-Violating Effective Electrodynamics