International Conference on Quantum Gravity (26-28 March 2018)

March 25 (Sun)

18:00-21:00 Registration and welcome reception at the Guest House Lobby (building 2)

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March 26 (Mon)

8:40-9:00 Opening  
9:00-9:45 Richard Woodard (Florida) Talk: The Case for Nonlocal Modifications of Gravity
9:45-10:30 Alexey Koshelev (Beira Interior) Talk: TBA

10:30-11:00 coffee break and late registration

11:00-11:45 Yun-Soo Myung (Inje) Talk: Instability of AdS black holes in sixth-order gravity
11:45-12:30 Gianluca Calcagni (IEM-CSIC Madrid) Talk: Taming the beast: initial conditions and degrees of freedom in nonlocal gravity

12:45-13:45 lunch

14:00-14:45 Leonardo Modesto (SUSTech) Talk: Nonlocal Quantum Gravity
14:45-15:30 Leslaw Rachwal (Brasilia) Talk: Finite Quantum Gravity

15:30-16:00 coffee break and late registration

16:00-16:20 Fabio Briscese (SUSTech) Talk: Perturbative unitarity in nonlocal field theory
16:20-16:40 Sravan Kumar (SUSTech) Talk: R^2 Inflation in Nonlocal Gravity

16:40-17:00 Alexander Vikman (CEICO) Talk: Canonical Exorcism for Cosmological Ghosts
17:00-17:20 Sohyun Park (CEICO) Talk: Revival of the Deser-Woodard nonlocal gravity model: Structure formation in the original nonlocal form and a localized formulation
 

Discussion section: 17:20-18:00

19:15-20:15 dinner

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March 27 (Tue)

9:00-9:45 Pisin Chen (LeCosPA) Talk: Accelerating Plasma Mirrors to Investigate the Black Hole Information Loss Paradox
9:45-10:30 Daniele Malafarina (Nazarbayev) Talk: Black hole bounces on the road to quantum gravity

10:30-11:00 coffee break

11:00-11:45 Ilya Shapiro (Juiz de Fora) Talk: Recent progress in fighting ghosts in quantum gravity
11:45-12:30 Damiano Anselmi (Pisa) Talk: Fakeons, Lee-Wick models and quantum gravity

12:45-13:45 lunch

14:00-14:45 Nobuyoshi Ohta (Kindai) Talk: Quantum Equivalence of $f(R)$ Gravity and Scalar-tensor Theories in the Jordan and Einstein Frames
14:45-15:30 Daniel Litim (Sussex) Talk: Asymptotic safety - from gauge theories to quantum gravity

15:30-16:00 coffee break & Conference Group Picture

16:00-16:20 Jingbo Wang (Xinyang Normal) Talk: Black hole as topological insulator
16:20-16:40 Marios Christodoulou (SUSTech): Black to White Hole transition
16:40-17:00 Ali Akil (SUSTech) Talk: Black holes and the information paradox
17:00-17:20 Shuang-Yong Zhou (USTC) Talk: Can the graviton have a large mass near black holes?
17:20-17:40 Lei Feng Talk (PMO): Light bending in nonlocal gravity 
17:40-18:00 Xun Xue (East China Normal) Talk: Large scale Lorentz Violation as the origin of the dark energy
18:00-18:20 Mohd Shahalam (ZJUT) Talk: Pre-inflationary dynamics in loop quantum cosmology
18:20-18:40 Gaurav Narain (ITP/CAS) Talk: An ultraviolet complete dark energy model 18:40-19:00 Ufuk Aydemir (HUST) Talk: A scale at 10 MeV, gravitational topological vacuum, and large extra dimensions

 

19:15-20:30 Social dinner

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March 28 (Wed)

9:00-9:45  Yongge Ma (BNU) Talk: Loop quantum scalar-tensor gravity and its cosmological model
9:45-10:30 Jianxin Lu (USTC) Talk: The open string pair production and its enhancement

10:30-11:00 coffee break

11:00-11:45 Haitang Yang (Sichuan) Talk: Derive asymptotic AdS$_3$ metric from UV/IR entanglement entropies of CFT$_2$
11:45-12:30 Yungui Gong (HUST) Talk: The polarizations of gravitational waves

12:45-13:45 lunch

14:00-14:45 Nico Yunes (Montana State) Talk: The Future of Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational Waves
14:45-15:30 Cosimo Bambi (Fudan) Talk: Testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis using X-ray reflection spectroscopy
15:30-15:50 Federico Urban (CEICO) Talk: Bimetric gravity and dark matter
15:50-16:10 Shaoqi Hou (HUST) Talk: Gravitational Waves in Einstein-aether Theory and Generalized TeVeS Theory after GW170817
16:10-16:30 Peng Liu (Jinan) Talk: Holographic butterfly effects and phase transitions

16:30-16:50 concluding remarks

 

16:50-17:10 coffee break

 

18:30-20:00 dinner