Geometry & physics of three-dimensional quantum gravity

Timetable (all talks take place at the ICMS)

9.30
Tea/coffee served at 10.45
11.15
Lunch from 12.30
14.00 15.00
Tea/coffee served at 15.45
16.30
Mon 30/6 Freidel
Lorentzian state sum models in three dimensions
D Thurston
The Jones Polynomials: towards a quantum SL(2,C) Chern-Simons Theory
Meusburger
On the quantization of 2+1 gravity in the Chern-Simons formulation
Martins
Knot theory with the Lorentz group
Yokota
On the limit of Kashaev's invariants for hyperbolic knots
Tue 1/7 Carlip
Quasi-normal modes and BTZ black hole quantization
Kashaev
Penner's coordinates for Teichmuller space and PSL(2,R) flat connections
Baseilhac
On dilogarithmic field theories
Benedetti
Towards a dilogarithmic field theory for 3d gravity
Matschull
3d Einstein gravity and Chern-Simons theory
Wed 2/7 Krasnov
2+1 gravity with negative cosmological constant
J Murakami
On the volume conjecture for the Turaev-Viro invariant
Arcioni
On the boundary dynamics of Chern-Simons gravity
Garcia-Islas
2+1-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity and spin networks
H Murakami
Limits of the coloured Jones polynomials and simplicial volumes
Thu 3/7 Woodward
Asymptotics of quantum 6j symbols and non-Euclidean tetrahedra
Buffenoir
The n-body problem for Chern-Simons de Sitter gravity
Sawin
Quantum groups and modularity at roots of unity
Oriti
An orientation dependent 3d spin foam model
Carfora
2+1 gravity and WZW models on random Regge geometries
Fri 4/7 Roche
Combinatorial quantization of Chern-Simons theory with SL(2,C) group
Gegenberg
2+1 gravity and Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Livine
Lorentzian formulation of 2+1 loop gravity
Karadi
Regge calculus on 3 dimensional manifolds with boundary
Nelson
Quantum matrices in (2+1)-dimensional gravity

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