Quantum Gravity and More
Conference venue
7-8 October 2022
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU)
ul. Sławkowska 17 (map)
Kraków, Poland
General information
The aim of the conference is to commemorate the scientific achievements of Prof. Jerzy Jurkiewicz, who passed away last year.
The focus shall be on quantum gravity, random matrix theory, quantum chromodynamics and applications of the methods of theoretical physics to interdisciplinary problems.
All those topics were in the area of interest of Prof. Jurkiewicz.
Memoirs of Prof. Jerzy Jurkiewicz can be found here.
Registration
Registration is closed.
The list of registered participants can be found here.
Invited speakers
- Jan Ambjørn (Niels Bohr Institute)
- Zdzisław Burda (AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow)
- François David (CEA Saclay)
- Henrik Flyvbjerg (Technical University of Denmark)
- Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo (The Autonomous University of Madrid)
- Andrzej Görlich (Jagiellonian University)
- Desmond Johnston (Heriot-Watt University)
- Chris Korthals Altes (Aix-Marseille University)
- Jerzy Lewandowski (University of Warsaw)
- Renate Loll (Radboud University)
- Maciej A. Nowak (Jagiellonian University)
- Gabor Papp (Eötvös Loránd University)
- Madhavan Varadarajan (RRI, Bangalore, India)
Programme
Friday, October 7
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Opening | |
| 15:20 - 16:10 | Jan Ambjørn | My work with Jurek |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Coffee break | |
| 16:40 - 17:20 | Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo | My connections with Jurek |
| 17:20 - 18:00 | Chris Korthals Altes | From twist eaters in QCD to gravity: a tribute to Jurek |
| 18:00 - 18:40 | Gabor Papp | Machine learning spectral functions in lattice QCD |
| 19:00 - | Conference dinner - Restauracja Farina, ul. św. Marka 16 |
Saturday, October 8
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Zdzisław Burda | Jurek, planar diagrams and portfolio optimization |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Maciej A. Nowak | Infinite products of large random matrices |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Henrik Flyvbjerg | Optimized photon economy for camera-based localization microscopy with structured illumination |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Desmond Johnston | Condensation as a collapse of diversity |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | François David | Perturbing Isoradial Triangulations |
| 12:50 - 13:50 | Lunch | |
| 13:50 - 14:30 | Jerzy Lewandowski | Quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model: what are spacetimes containing quantum black holes, what are black holes contained in quantum spacetime |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Madhavan Varadarajan | LQG: A structural review and some new results |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee break | |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Andrzej Görlich | Scalar Fields in Causal Dynamical Triangulations |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Renate Loll | Quantum Gravity Demystified |
Organizing Committee
- Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagiellonian University, chair)
- Szczepan Biliński (Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences)
- Zdzisław Burda (AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow)
- Wojciech Florkowski (Jagiellonian University)
- Paweł Góra (Jagiellonian University)
- Andrzej Görlich (Jagiellonian University)
- Ewa Gudowska-Nowak (Jagiellonian University)
- Maciej A. Nowak (Jagiellonian University)
- Jakub Zakrzewski (Jagiellonian University, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences)
- Karol Życzkowski (Jagiellonian University, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Contact
Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki
mail: jakub.gizbert-studnicki [at] uj.edu.pl
Funding
- Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University
- Department of Theory of Complex Systems, Jagiellonian University
- Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
