Título/Title: Local and non-local models of quantum gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Ilya L. Shapiro (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

Abstract: The main difficulty of perturbative quantum gravity (QG) in D=4 dimensions is the conflict between renormalizability and unitarity of the theory. The simplest version of QG is based on General Relativity and turns out to be nonrenormalizable. One can construct renormalizable and even superrenormalizable versions of QG by introducing higher derivatives. In the local versions of higher derivative models of QG there are always unphysical higherderivative massive unphysical ghosts. One can construct non-polynomial in derivatives (or, equivalently, nonlocal) models of QG, which have no ghosts at the tree level. However, taking loop corrections into account one meets infinite amount of ghost-like complex states. The theories of both local and nonlocal types attracted a lot of attention in the last years and our purpose it to present a brief review of the problems and perspectives of these models, according to the present-day understanding.

Título/Title: Stringy corrections to supergravity black holes

Ponente/Speaker: Tomás Ortín (IFT - CSIC/UAM)

Abstract: At low energies, the dynamics of string theoreis can be approximated quite well by an effective theory of the fields that describe the massless excitations of the string, which always includes a graviton. The effective field theory admits a double expansion in the string coupling constant and in the string length (squared). At lowest order in the string length the string theory effective action is just an ordinary theory of (super)gravity coupled to some amssless fields. Terms of higher order in the string length in the action are of higher order in curvatures. They represent genuine stringy effects that correct the lowest-order behavior. they are very interesting, but very difficult to compute. In this talk I will review the basics of the string effective action and its first stringy corrections for the particular case of the heterotic superstring. I will then consider several solutions of the lowest-order action that correspond to several kinds of black holes, including the non-extremal Reissner-Nordstrom one and I will show how to compute their first stringy corrections and the corrections to their Q/M ratios in the extremal limit (relevant in the context of the Weak Gravity Conjecture), temperatures and entropies using Wald's formalism.

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Título/Title: Fricción cuántica y fuerzas de Casimir entre detectores de Unruh-deWitt y placas

Ponente/Speaker: Pablo Rodríguez López (URJC)

Abstract: En esta charla vamos a ver cómo usar Teoría de Campos y el formalismo de Scattering para estudiar diversos fenómenos físicos cuyo origen es la naturaleza cuántico-fluctuante del campo electromagnético (junto con la ruptura de simetrías translacionales y/o el no equilibrio termodinámico), como las fuerzas de Casimir y la emisibilidad y transferencia de calor entre cuerpos. En particular, tras una introducción teórica, me voy a centrar en el efecto Casimir y la trasferencia de calor entre materiales 2D de la familia del grafeno (con lo que veremos la importancia de la dimensionalidad y las propiedades de las respuestas electromagnéticas de los materiales) y, con un tratamiento relativista, en la fricción cuántica entre átomos (modelizados como detectores de Unruh-deWitt) en un estado cuántico general en proximidad a una placa. Mostraré que, para velocidades relativas cercanas a c, la fricción cuántica diverge mientras que la fuerza de Casimir es casi independiente de la velocidad y como el tamaño finito del átomo nos elimina resultados infinitos espureos de la teoría. Además, obtenemos fricción cuántica incluso cuando el detector se encuentra aislado, pero sigue una trayectoria no inercial.

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Título/Title: Solving the sigma_8 tension with coupled quintessence

Ponente/Speaker: Nelson Nunes (IA/FCUL)

Abstract: I will show that dark energy as a scalar field coupled to dark matter with Universe background evolution taken to be identical to the LambdaCDM one can alleviate the tension between the relatively high level of clustering found in cosmic microwave background observations and the smaller value obtained from large-scale observations in the late Universe. I will illustrate this using Redshift Space Distortions data and show forecast for Euclid, SKA and eRosita.

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Título/Title: Spectroscopy: a powerful tool to investigate the Universe

Ponente/Speaker: José María Fernández Sánchez (IEM-CSIC)

Abstract: Hasta la detección de las ondas gravitacionales en 2016, todo nuestro conocimiento de los objetos astronómicos más allá del sistema solar provenía de la “luz” que nos llega de ellos. Esta radiación electromagnética contiene, en sus diversas regiones espectrales, mucha información detallada que solo se puede extraer mediante un análisis espectroscópico riguroso. En esta charla repasaremos el desarrollo histórico de la Espectroscopía, describiendo la información que se puede extraer de las distintas regiones espectrales, junto con la tecnología necesaria para su observación, tanto en tierra como desde satélites. Tras ello, presentaremos varios ejemplos de su aplicación a la Astrofísica, como la composición química de las estrellas, la detección de moléculas en el medio interestelar, el alejamiento de las galaxias, o la reciente detección de atmósferas en exoplanetas.

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Título/Title: Pasado, Presente y Futuro de la Astronomía de Ondas Gravitacionales

Ponente/Speaker: Carlos Sopuerta (IEC-CSIC)

Abstract: Las ondas gravitacionales son una predicción de la Teoría General de la Relatividad que Einstein completó en 1915. Hubo que esperar un siglo hasta que LIGO (Observatorio de Ondas Gravitacionales de Interferometría Láser) consiguiera realizar la primera detección. Este evento marcó el comienzo de la Astronomía de Ondas Gravitacionales (Premio Nobel de Física 2017) y aceleró el desarrollo de dectectores de diferentes tipos y diferentes tecnologías para cubrir las partes más importantes del espectro de dichas ondas. En este charla describiré los avances realizados hasta ahora en el desarrollo de observatorios de ondas gravitacionales, así como los que se esperan en las próximas dos décadas.

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Título/Title: Gravitational waves: A new window to observe the Universe

Ponente/Speaker: Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Universidad de Nagoya)

Abstract: Gravitational waves, small ripples in the space time, are a new and unique observational tool for exploring unknown aspects of the universe. In the first part of my talk, I will review recent discoveries and developments of gravitational wave observation. Then I will introduce my data analysis activity in KAGRA collaboration for exploring relic gravitational waves from the early Universe, such as cosmic string bursts and a stochastic background.

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Título/Title: Baryons, dark matter and black holes: a common origin

Ponente/Speaker: Juan García-Bellido (IFT-UAM/CSIC)

Abstract: Twenty-three years ago, we predicted that massive primordial black holes (PBH) would form via the gravitational collapse of radiation and matter associated with high peaks in the spectrum of curvature fluctuations, and that they could constitute all of the dark matter (DM) today. In 2015, we predicted the clustering and broad mass distribution of PBH, which peaks at several Msun, and whose high-mass tails could be responsible for the seeds of all galaxies. Since then, AdvLIGO-Virgo interferometers have detected gravitational waves from at least thirty merger events of very massive and spinless black hole binaries, and we propose that they are PBH. We have recently understood that a universal mechanism associated with rapid changes in the number of relativistic species in the early universe could have been responsible for the formation of PBH at specific scales and thus have a very concrete prediction for the mass spectrum of DM-PBH, with broad peaks at 10^{-5}, 1, 100, and 10^6 Msun. In particular, the QCD quark-hadron transition could be responsible for the efficient production of baryons over antibaryons at PBH collapse, thus explaining the presence of baryons today and the relative abundance of DM to Baryons. We predict that, within a few months, a 100 Msun and a less than 1 Msun PBH will be detected by AdvLIGO-Virgo, and that in a few years an array of GW detectors could be used to determine the mass and spin distribution of PBH dark matter with 10% accuracy. Thus, gravitational wave astronomy could be responsible for a new paradigm shift in the understanding of the nature of dark matter and galaxy formation.

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Título/Title: Galaxy evolution and cosmology using gamma rays observed with Fermi-LAT

Ponente/Speaker: Alberto Domínguez (UCM)

Abstract: The light emitted by all galaxies across the history of the Universe is encoded in the intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL), the diffuse cosmic radiation field at ultraviolet, optical, and infrared wavelengths. The EBL is a source of opacity for very high energy gamma rays via pair production, leaving a characteristic attenuation imprint in the spectra of distant gamma-ray sources. In this seminar, I will report on new measurements of the EBL using gamma-ray data from both the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. These unprecedented measurements have allowed us to derive the cosmic star-formation history, the number density of faint galaxies during the re-ionization epoch, and also the expansion rate of the Universe and its matter content. These results demonstrate that gamma-ray astrophysics has mature to the point of providing competitive measurements of cosmic properties previously restricted to techniques used by classical astronomy.

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Título/Title: Loop Quantum Gravity: A Structural Overview

Ponente/Speaker: Madhavan Varadarajan (Raman Research Institute)

Abstract: LQG is an attempt to construct a non-perturbative quantization of General Relativity. Rather than treat the quantum gravitational field as a quantum excitation over a fixed classical spacetime geometry, it seeks to construct the quantum mechanics of the gravitational field as a whole without recourse to any classical background spacetime geometry. In this talk I will focus on canonical LQG. I will provide a broad overview of its key structural features and their implications, and close with a brief description of my current research.

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Título/Title: Kerr-de Sitter spacetime and conformal infinity

Ponente/Speaker: Marc Mars (Universidad de Salamanca)

Abstract: In this talk I will present several results concerning the characterization of the Kerr-de Sitter spacetime in terms of the asymptotic data at null infinity. This is relatively recent joint work with Paetz and Senovilla, and partially Simon. The first part of the talk is intended to be introductory: after reviewing the Kerr-de Sitter metric and recalling standard results on the initial value problem in General Relativity, I will discuss the initial value problem at past null infinity for the EFE with positive cosmological constant, as well as the notion of asymptotic Killing initial data. In the second part I will present the characterization results at infinity of Kerr-de Sitter based on a local characterization of this metric obtained a few years ago with Senovilla. If time permits I will also present recent results with Peón-Nieto on the higher dimensional case.

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Título/Title: Agujeros negros de Kruskal y su extensión cuántica

Ponente/Speaker: Javier Olmedo (Louisiana State University)

Abstract: En esta charla resumiré las características principales de una nueva descripción cuántica efectiva para los espacio-tiempos de Kruskal. Centraré la discusión en agujeros negros con masas macroscópicas. En esta nueva descripción, las singularidades en las regiones "interiores" quedan resueltas de forma natural. Además, estos espacio-tiempos tienen las siguientes propiedades: (i) admiten un número infinito de regiones atrapadas, antiatrapadas y asintóticas; (ii) los escalares de curvatura más simples tienen cotas superiores independientes de la masa del agujero negro; (iii) en la región asintótica, la curvatura del espacio-tiempo cae lo suficientemente rápido para que la masa ADM esté bien definida; (iv) todas las regiones asintóticas tienen (cuantitativamente) la misma masa ADM (para agujeros negros macroscópicos). Finalmente, compararé esta propuesta con descripciones efectivas anteriores sugeridas en la literatura.

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Título/Title: Asymptotically Safe Gravity: from astrophysics to cosmology

Ponente/Speaker: Alessia Platania (U. Heidelberg - ITP)

Abstract: According to the "Asymptotic Safety conjecture", first postulated by Weinberg, quantization of gravity might result in a (non-perturbatively) renormalizable quantum field theory, whose high-energy limit is determined by a non-trivial fixed point of the gravitational renormalization group flow. The resulting scale-invariant regime implies an effective weakening of the gravitational interaction at high energies. This anti-screening behavior might have important implications in both astrophysics and cosmology. After reviewing the key ideas of the theory, in this talk I will discuss the phenomenological consequences of Asymptotically Safe Gravity, mostly focusing on the modifications induced by the running of the gravitational couplings in a black-hole interior and in the early evolution of the universe.

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Título/Title: The challenge of indirect dark matter searches

Ponente/Speaker: Ángeles Moliné (IFT UAM-CSIC)

Abstract: A tremendous amount of gravitational evidence for the existence of dark matter has been accumulated from astrophysical and cosmological observations. In the past decades, a huge effort has been focused on understanding its nature. Dark matter is searched for using a variety of complementary probes. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the search methods, focusing on indirect dark matter searches which rely on astrophysical observations.

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Título/Title: Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey

Ponente/Speaker: Eusebio Sánchez Álvaro (CIEMAT)

Abstract: The discovery of the cosmic acceleration established LCDM as the standard cosmological paradigm. The most shocking consequence of this theory is the existence of new physics, beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, three times (cosmic inflation, dark matter and dark energy). This fact means that everything that has ever been directly observed makes up just 5% of the Universe content. The remaining 95% is formed by two different components: dark matter (25%) and dark energy (70%). The existence of the dark components is inferred from the effect they have on ordinary matter, but they have never been observed in the laboratory. Ongoing and planned cosmic surveys are designed to test LCDM and more generally to shed light on the physical nature of the dark sector. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has mapped 300 million galaxies and tens of thousands of galaxy clusters in five filters (grizY ) over 5000 square-degrres (1/8 of the sky), and has discovered several thousand type Ia supernovae in a 27 square-degrees time-domain survey. DES uses several cosmological probes to test LCDM. Galaxy clustering (LSS) and weak gravitational lensing (WL) are two of the most powerful. Jointly, these complementary probes sample the underlying matter density field through the galaxy population and the distortion of light due to gravitational lensing. In this talk, the cosmological results from the combination of LSS and WL from the first year data (Y1) and the first results from the supernovae survey are presented. They have set strong constraints on LCDM and its simplest extensions. A very brief review of the final DES expectations and the cosmological projects for the near future are also presented.

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Título/Title: Quantum simulation of traversable wormholes and exotic spacetimes

Ponente/Speaker: Carlos Sabín (IFF-CSIC)

Abstract: We present several schemes for analog quantum simulation of spacetimes containing traversable wormholes. First, we will consider a simluation by means of a dc-SQUID array. The impedance of the array places severe limitations on the type of spacetime that we can implement. The quantum fluctuations of the phase due to the impedance might be seen as an analogue of Hawking’s chronology protection mechanism. We will discuss as well possible applications of these techniques to different spacetime metrics of interest such as Gödel, Alcubierre and Kerr. Alternatively, we propose a recipe for the simulation in a Bose-Einstein condensate, both in 1+1 D and 3+1 D. Finally, we will also discuss a scheme for the quantum simulation of the single-particle Dirac equation in traversable wormholes and other exotic spacetimes.

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Título/Title: Entropía, información y ergodicidad

Ponente/Speaker: Juan M. Rodríguez Parrondo (UCM)

Abstract: La relación entre información y entropía es un problema que ha afectado a los fundamentos de la termodinámica y la física estadística desde sus inicios. En 1867, Maxwell se dio cuenta de que un ser capaz de observar la posición y velocidad de las moléculas podía transferir energía de un gas frío a uno caliente sin trabajo, en aparente contradicción con la segunda ley de la termodinámica. Desde entonces se ha tratado de encontrar la manera de conciliar el "demonio de Maxwell" y la solución ha consistido en analizar el coste entrópico de procesos en los que la información juega un papel relevante, como la medición de un observable o el borrado de una memoria. En la charla repasaremos la historia del demonio de Maxwell, introduciremos el marco teórico más reciente en el que se puede formular una "termodinámica de la información" y discutiremos la relación entre la información y la pérdida de ergodicidad en un sistema físico.

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Título/Title: El Sol, un gran desconocido

Ponente/Speaker: Benjamín Montesinos (Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA)

Abstract: A pesar de ser la estrella más cercana, el Sol aún presenta muchos enigmas a los que dar respuesta. En este coloquio repasaremos algunos de ellos, haciendo un recorrido que describirá su formación -ligada a la del Sistema Solar en su conjunto- y evolución hasta la fase de enana blanca, su estructura y los fenómenos que dan origen a los complejos campos magnéticos, cuyas manifestaciones más conocidas son la manchas solares y los ciclos de aproximadamente 11 años. Nos detendremos en las interesantes anomalías en esa periodicidad -los llamados "grandes mínimos" [de actividad magnética]- sobre los que se han formulado hipótesis realmente provocativas. Pondremos al Sol en perspectiva comparándolo con otras estrelllas, y por supuesto, intentaremos contestar las dudas y curiosidades de la audiencia.

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Título/Title: The Higgs, the Inflaton and their meeting at LHC

Ponente/Speaker: Mindaugas Karciauskas (UCM)

Abstract: The current data favour metastability of the electroweak (EW) vacuum, which poses a number of cosmological challenges. We suggest a novel solution which does not employ any extra fields beyond the inflaton. We show that the Higgs mixing with an inflaton can lead to a stable EW vacuum. A trilinear Higgs–inflaton coupling always results in such a mixing and it is generally present in realistic models describing the reheating stage correctly. We find that cosmological constraints on this coupling are weak and an order one mixing is possible. In this case, the model is effectively described by a single mass scale of the EW size, making it particularly interesting for direct LHC searches.

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Título/Title: Consistent effective field theories and the Swampland

Ponente/Speaker: Lavinia Heisenberg (ETH Zurich)

Abstract: After giving a systematical overview about consistent-looking constructions of effective field theories of gravity, I will discuss different ways of assessing them by means of theoretical and cosmological consistency. In the former caseI will pay special attention to the recently suggested Swampland criteria and their cosmological implications.

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Título/Title: How does a black hole die? Cosmological and astrophysical consequences

Ponente/Speaker: Francesca Vidotto (Dept. de Física Teórica y de Historia de la Física, UPV/EHU)

Abstract: Black holes are not forever: Hawking radiation or other instabilities of quantum-gravitational origin can make their life finite. I present a concrete realisation of how this can happen: the black-hole geometry can tunnel to a white-hole geometry. While the process is expected to be generic of all black holes, it becomes observationally relevant for primordial black holes. A first consequence of the proposed scenario is to shed light on how a remnant can form and be stable, providing a viable dark-matter candidate. Second, the white-hole phase can be accompanied by an explosion, that presents characteristic features allowing to distinguish it from other astrophysical sources. I discuss in particular a possible emission channel compatible with fast radio bursts. Interestingly, exploding primordial black holes constitute a peculiar kind of decaying dark matter, whose effects could appear in late-universe observations.

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Título/Title: Can Relativity and Quantum Theory learn to speak the same language? The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Relativistic Quantum Information

Ponente/Speaker: Eduardo Martín-Martínez (University of Waterloo - Institute for Quantum Computing)

Abstract: A 42 minutes talk about the field of Relativistic Quantum Information. What it aims to do, what challenges it faces and, most importantly, why should we care about it! Towels are optional, but recommended.

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Título/Title: Trazando el agujero negro en el Centro de la Vía Láctea a través de las estrellas masivas

Ponente/Speaker: Francisco Najarro (Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA)

Abstract: En esta charla repasaremos como las observaciones de estrellas masivas, tanto en modo imagen como espectroscópico, han contribuido a caracterizar el agujero negro masivo en el centro de nuestra Galaxia a lo largo de las tres últimas decadas. Abarcaremos los primeros pasos en los que se dudaba de su existencia, continuando con la estimación más precisa de su masa y terminando por la deteccion de efectos post-newtoninanos recientes.

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Título/Title: What gravitational collapse can tell us about quantum field theory thermalisation

Ponente/Speaker: Esperanza López (IFT UAM-CSIC)

Abstract: The holographic principle has proven to be an extremely useful tool to study quantum field theory problems which are very hard to address which more conventional techniques. The far from equilibrium evolution of quantum systems is one of these areas. Remarkably, the holographic principle maps the dynamics of gravitational collapse with that of quantum field theory thermalization. It will be shown that holography is also able to model interesting processes with deviate from a fast approach to thermal equilibrium, known as quantum revivals.

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Título/Title: On the non-local surface plasmon contribution to the Casimir force

Ponente/Speaker: Vincenzo Giannini (IEM-CSIC)

Abstract: The Casimir effect is a fundamental quantum-mechanical relativistic phenomenon which originates from the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. It interconnects electrically neutral objects with or without permanent electric and/or magnetic moments. Using a quantum electrodynamical approach based on linear response theory we will show a detailed study of the Casimir force in graphene systems. Graphene is a two-dimensional crystal that has singular electronic, mechanical and optical properties. Being graphene a one atom thick structure makes particularly interesting to study Casimir forces between graphene sheets. The graphene sheets are considered as infinitesimal thin, local and isotropic conductive surfaces and furthermore, the influence of surface plasmons is explored. We will see how this fundamental effect depends on the graphene optical response and the gap. In this way, we are able to study the light-plasmon mediated interaction between graphene sheets. These results are particularly relevant for graphene nanotechnology applications.

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Título/Title: Un breve recorrido por la cuantización de campos en fondos curvos

Ponente/Speaker: Jerónimo Cortez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Abstract: En esta charla revisaremos algunos aspectos sobre la cuantización de campos en fondos curvos. En particular, en lo que al proceso de cuantización en espacio de Hilbert se refiere, veremos el problema de unicidad y cómo puede sortearse a través de la imposición de criterios físicos. Aprovecharemos el recorrido para mencionar también algunas aplicaciones en gravedad, concretamente en la cuantización de modelos de simetría reducida cosmológicos.

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Título/Title: No LIGO MACHO: the Dark Universe in the Gravitational Wave Era

Ponente/Speaker: Miguel Zumalacárregui (UC Berkeley & IPhT Saclay)

Abstract: Evidence shows that we live in a universe where 95% of the matter and energy is of unknown nature. Right from the onset, Gravitational Wave (GW) astronomy is shaping our understanding of the dark universe in several ways: GW signals of black hole mergers have resurrected the idea of Dark Matter being made of primordial black holes, while multi-messenger GW astronomy has generated novel ways to test Dark Energy and the fundamental properties of gravity. I will discuss the impact of gravitational waves on the landscape of gravitational theories, and how the recent observation of a neutron star merger spectacularly rules out a large class of Dark Energy models in which the speed of GWs is variable, including some (otherwise viable) contenders to the cosmological constant. Then I will present how gravitational lensing of distant supernovae constrains the abundance of primordial black holes, which can not be the dominant form of Dark Matter.

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Título/Title: La Telenovela de las Ondas Gravitacionales

Ponente/Speaker: Prof. Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, EEUU)

Título/Title: Avances recientes en gravedad cuántica de lazos con simetría esférica

Ponente/Speaker: Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, EEUU)

Abstract: Detallaremos recientes resultados en gravedad cuántica de lazos con simetría esférica, incluyendo la solución exacta de las ecuaciones cuánticas de Einstein, el tratamiento de campos cuánticos que viven en la misma, el efecto Casimir, la radiación de Hawking y la evolución de cáscaras nulas como modelo de colapso, así como las implicaciones para la paradoja de la información.

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Título/Title: Astronomía de Ondas Gravitacionales

Ponente/Speaker: Profa. Gabriela González (Louisiana State University, EEUU)

Título/Title: Thermal scalar fields under gravitational effects

Ponente/Speaker: Franco Dante Albareti (IFT UAM-CSIC)

Abstract: Within the framework of QFT in curved spacetimes, we compute one-loop corrections to the effective potential and energy-momentum tensor of a generically selfinteracting scalar field in a perturbed Robertson-Walker background. Vacuum and finite temperature contributions are described. An explicit mode decomposition of the field in the perturbed geometry is used instead of the local approach based on the Schwinger-De Witt expansion. The potential generation of inhomogeneities in the vacuum expectation value is also discussed.

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Título/Title: Black hole evaporation: Entropy analysis and GUP corrections

Ponente/Speaker: Ana Alonso Serrano (AEI - Potsdam)

Abstract: We have studied the entropy budget per particle emitted in blackbody radiation and determined explicit coarse-grainning models for classical and quantum entropies. As the process is unitary, the entropy is exactly compensated by the “hidden information” in the correlations that we choose not to consider within the specific selected coarse-graining. Our goal is to extend these ideas to a black hole evaporation process. In order to carry out this calculation we adopted a variant of the “average subsystem” approach, but consider a multipartite pure system that includes the influence of the rest of the universe. In addition, the entropy budget should be corrected at the last stages of evaporation, due to quantum gravity effects. We have been shown recently how these effects (expressed in terms of the generalized uncertainty principle) modify the Hawking flux when we approach the Planck size.

Título/Title: Dark energy from α-attractors: phenomenology and observational constraints

Ponente/Speaker: Carlos García (IFF - CSIC)

Abstract: The possibility of linking inflation and late cosmic accelerated expansion using the alpha-attractor models has received increasing attention due to their physical motivation. In the early universe, \alpha-attractors provide an inflationary mechanism compatible with Planck satellite CMB observations and predictive for future gravitational wave CMB modes. Additionally alpha-attractors can be written as quintessence models with a potential that connects a power law regime with a plateau or uplifted exponential, allowing a late cosmic accelerated expansion that can mimic behavior near a cosmological constant. In this talk we study a generalized dark energy alpha-attractor model. We thoroughly investigate its phenomenology, including the role of all model parameters and the possibility of large-scale tachyonic instability clustering. We verify the relation that 1+w\sim 1/\alpha (while the gravitational wave power r\sim\alpha) so these models predict that a signature should appear in either the primordial B-modes or in late time deviation from a cosmological constant. We constrain the model parameters with current datasets, including the cosmic microwave background (Planck 2015 compressed likelihood), baryon acoustic oscillations (BOSS DR12) and supernovae (Pantheon compressed). Our results show that expansion histories close to a cosmological constant exist in large regions of the parameter space, not requiring a fine-tuning of the parameters or initial conditions.

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Título/Title: Inflation and initial conditions: the role of fluctuation-dissipation dynamics

Ponente/Speaker: Mar Bastero Gil (Universidad de Granada)

Abstract: In this talk we review the problem of initial conditions for slow-roll inflation along a plateau-like scalar potential within the framework of fluctuation-dissipation dynamics. We consider, in particular, that inflation was preceded by a radiation-dominated epoch where the inflaton is coupled to light degrees of freedom and may reach a near-equilibrium state. We show that the homogeneous field component can be sufficiently localized at the origin to trigger a period of slow-roll if the interactions between the inflaton and the thermal degrees of freedom are sufficiently strong and argue that this does not necessarily spoil the flatness of the potential at the quantum level. This may lead to a later perior of thermal inflation, which suppresses the effects of nonlinear interactions. between the homogeneous and inhomogeneous field modes that could prevent the former from entering a slow-roll regime.

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Título/Title: Loop gravity without spin networks

Ponente/Speaker: Wolfgang Wieland (Perimeter Institute)

Abstract: It is arguably one of the main achievements of loop quantum gravity to have demonstrated that space itself may have an atomic structure. One of the key open problems of the theory is to reconcile the fundamental loop quantum gravity discreteness of space with general relativity in the continuum. In this talk, I present recent progress regarding this issue: I will show that the loop gravity discreteness of space can be understood from a conventional Fock quantisation of gravitational boundary modes on a null surface. These boundary modes are found by considering a quasi-local Hamiltonian analysis, where general relativity is treated as a Hamiltonian system in domains with inner null boundaries. The presence of such null boundaries requires then additional boundary terms in the action. Using Ashtekar’s original SL(2,C) self-dual variables, I will explain that the natural such boundary term is nothing but a kinetic term for a spinor (defining the null flag of the boundary) and a spinor-valued two-form, which are both intrinsic to the boundary. Finally, I will show that in quantum theory, the cross-sectional area two-form turns into the difference of two number operators (unless the Barbero—Immirzi parameter is sent to infinity). The resulting area spectrum is discrete without ever introducing spin networks or triangulations of space.

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Título/Title: Loop Quantum Effective Geometry and Schwarzschild Singularity: Exact Results

Ponente/Speaker: Dr. William Cuervo (UNAM, México)

Título/Title: Taming the beast: initial conditions and degrees of freedom in non-local gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Gianluca Calcagni (IEM, CSIC)

Abstract: Non-local quantum gravity is a class of fundamental theories whose classical and quantum dynamics is specified by "form factors", operators with infinitely many derivatives. After briefly reviewing this paradigm and its role in the resolution of big-bang and black-hole singularities, for the first time we count the number of nonpertubative field degrees of freedom as well as the number of initial conditions to be specified to solve the Cauchy problem. In particular, in four dimensions and for the string-related form factor, there are 8 degrees of freedom (2 graviton polarization mode and 6 rank-2 tensor modes) and 4 initial conditions. The method to obtain this result is first illustrated in a pedagogical way for the case of a non-local scalar field. Consequences for cosmology and astrophysics are discussed.

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Título/Title: Towards new constraints in extended theories of gravity: large-scale structures, neutron stars and SKA

Ponente/Speaker: Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz (U. of Cape Town and SKA Cosmology)

Abstract: Model-independent methods in cosmology, N-body simulations and theoretical predictions in strong-gravity regimes have become essentials tool in order to deal with an increasing number of theoretical alternatives for explaining several open issues in the cosmic history. In principle, this provides a way of testing the ΛCDM cosmological paradigm under different assumptions and to rule out whole classes of competing theories. In this talk I will present some of the latest progress and shortcomings in a recent line of full N-body simulation technique modifying g-evolution to accommodate effects from higher-order theories. Then, I will provide a flavour on the phenomenology of neutron stars in scalar-tensor gravity theories and the potentiality of SKA to detect large-scale structure effects beyond the Einsteinian paradigm.

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Título/Title: Testing the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves

Ponente/Speaker: Jose María Ezquiaga (IFT, CSIC-UAM)

Abstract: Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has come to revolutionize our understanding of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics. GWs from binary black-hole (BH) mergers allow us to learn about the population of BHs, their origin and their role through the history of the universe. If these BHs have a primordial origin and are abundant enough, they could comprise a large fraction of the Dark Matter (DM). As a case of study, I will present the primordial black-hole production in Critical Higgs Inflation, a particle physics motivated model in which the SM Higgs is both responsible of inflation and DM, and discuss its GWs signatures. Moreover, GWs detected with an associated counterpart can probe the evolution of the universe and Dark Energy (DE). The recent measurement of the GW speed following GW170817 is an excellent example of the immense potential available to GWs tests of gravity. I will present the conditions for anomalous GW speed and classify the theories for DE that remain viable after GW170817. Finally, I will discuss how other propagation effects could also shed light on the quest for the nature of DE.

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Título/Title: Primordial fluctuations in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Ponente/Speaker: Mercedes Martín-Benito (UCM)

Abstract: A lot of attention has been devoted lately to the consideration of quantum corrections to the power spectrum of primordial fluctuations, as a possible window to unveil quantum geometry phenomena in the Early Universe. In this talk I will review the derivation of these corrections in the framework of hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). Homogeneous LQC provides a canonical quantization for FLRW models free of singularities: the classical big bang singularity is replaced by a quantum bounce, the quantum dynamics is everywhere well-defined, and physical observables never diverge. On the other hand, hybrid LQC extends the LQC quantization to systems with inhomogeneities. For the particular case of cosmological perturbations in flat FLRW supplemented with inflation, I will analyze the quantum dynamics of states that verify a Born-Oppenheimer ansatz. They describe a regime where the cosmological perturbations can be regarded as a field propagating over a homogeneous quantum geometry. From those states, we will recover a Mukhanov-Sasaki equation for cosmological perturbations that incorporates the mentioned quantum corrections. Such corrections are encoded in the expectation value of operators of the homogeneous geometry. I will discuss how these corrections might lead to observational imprints in the primordial power spectra.

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Título/Title: From LISA Pathfinder to LISA: Enabling the Science of the Gravitational-Wave Low-Frequency Band

Ponente/Speaker: Carlos Sopuerta (ICE-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Abstract: LIGO and Virgo have inaugurated the era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy by observing several binary black hole mergers and the merger of a neutron star binary that has made possible multimessenger astronomy with gravitational waves. Apart from the initial discovery, these detections have produced revolutionary discoveries. At the same time, there are ongoing efforts to detect gravitational waves beyond the high-frequency band of the ground-based detectors. Indeed, after the success of the LISA Pathfinder mission, the European Space Agency has selected LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) as its third large-classe mission (L3). The main goal of LISA is to carry out the science proposed in the white paper "The Gravitational Universe", consisting in low-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy. In this talk I will describe the main scientific goals of the mission and its potential for new discoveries in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics.

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Título/Title: Fractional Calculus as a Modelling Framework

Ponente/Speaker: Luis Vázquez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract: The Fractional Calculus represents a natural instrument to model nonlocal phenomena either in space or time. From Physics and Chemistry to Biology and Engineering, there are many processes that involve different space / time scales. In many cases, the dynamics of such systems can be formulated by fractional differential equations which include the nonlocal effects. We give a panoramic view of the field with associated challenges and applications in the studies of metamaterials as well as in Martian studies.

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Título/Title: Astrofísica gamma y física fundamental con MAGIC

Ponente/Speaker: Marcos López Moya (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract: La Astrofísica gamma nos abre una ventana a los fenómenos más violentos del universo, que suelen surgir en la vecindad de objetos cósmicos muy masivos y compactos, como agujeros negros, estrellas de neutrones o explosiones supernova, acelerando partículas hasta energías ultrarrelativistas. Entre los detectores actuales de rayos gamma destacan los telescopios MAGIC, situados en la isla de La Palma, con los que se han descubierto multitud de fuentes, tanto de origen galáctico como extragaláctico. Pero, además, estos telescopios permiten abordar cuestiones de física fundamental, como la búsqueda de materia oscura e incluso sondear la estructura microscópica del espacio-tiempo postulada por algunos modelos de gravedad cuántica. Según estos modelos, la velocidad de la luz debería depender ligeramente de la energía de los fotones. De ser el caso, tales cambios tendrían que plasmarse en los tiempos de llegada de los fotones de distintas energías detectados por los telescopios. En esta charla daremos una visión general del campo, destacando los logros conseguidos con MAGIC en cuestiones tales como los límites a la violación de la invariancia Lorentz.

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Título/Title: Coincident General Relativity

Ponente/Speaker: Tomi Koivisto (Nordita)

Abstract: The Palatini formalism is applied to generate teleparallel and symmetric teleparallel theories of gravity without introducing frame elds. From the symmetric version an exceptional class is discovered, which is consistent with a completely vanishing ane connection. We use this remarkable property in this Letter to propose a simpler geometrical formulation of General Relativity that is oblivious to the structure of the spacetime, thus fundamentally depriving gravity from any inertial character. The resulting theory is described by the Einstein-Hilbert action purged from the boundary term and is more robustly underpinned by the spin-2 eld theory. We also show that this construction gives a natural starting point for modied gravity theories and present new and simple generalisations where analytical self-accelerating cosmological solutions arise naturally in the early and late time universe cosmology.

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Título/Title: Ciencia y tecnologías cuánticas de la información

Ponente/Speaker: Prof. J. Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Alemania)

Abstract: La Física Cuántica y las Ciencias de la Información han revolucionado el mundo moderno más allá de lo esperado. Mientras la primera es responsable de nuestra precisa descripción del mundo microscópico, la segunda constituye la base de las modernas tecnologías que utilizamos para procesar y transmitir información. Hoy en día estamos asistiendo a otra revolución científica y tecnológica, en donde las Ciencias de la Información y la Física Cuántica se combinan para dar lugar a nuevas formas de codificar, manipular y transferir información. Más allá de estas aplicaciones, la teoría cuántica de la información ha emergido como una forma de describir el mundo que nos rodea, conectando campos como la física atómica, la de la materia condensada o, incluso, la de altas energías. En esta charla se hablará de las aplicaciones más relevantes surgidas de las investigaciones en este campo, así como del impacto de esta teoría en otros campos de la Física.

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Título/Title: Gravitational waves. What's in for hadron physics?

Ponente/Speaker: José L.F. Barbón (IFT, UAM-CSIC)

Abstract: I will review recent ideas in holography, imported from the theory of quantum complexity, mainly in the context of AdS/CFT correspondences. In particular, I will discuss various competing prescriptions to defineholographic versions of quantum complexity.

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Título/Title: Observar el Big Bang/Observing the Big Bang

Ponente/Speaker: Profa. Ana Achúcarro (Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Leiden, Holanda)

Abstract: Our current best understanding of the Universe’s history and contents is, at the same time, fascinating and disturbing. Some of the "known unknowns" include dark matter, dark energy and the quantum origin of the primordial density fluctuations from which galaxies have formed. I will discuss some of the evidence behind this well established "standard model of cosmology" and the challenges ahead, including the idea that observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation contain important clues about quantum effects around the time of the Big Bang. We can do particle physics with telescopes.

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Título/Title: Gravitational waves. What's in for hadron physics?

Ponente/Speaker: Felipe J. Llanes Estrada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract: The finding of Gravitational Waves by the aLIGO scientific and VIRGO collaborations opens opportunities to better test and understand strong interactions, both nuclear-hadronic and gravitational. Assuming General Relativity holds, one can constrain hadron physics at a neutron star. But precise knowledge of the Equation of State and transport properties in hadron matter can also reverse the logic and be used to constrain the theory of gravity itself. I make an amateur review of a couple of these opportunities in the context of modified f(R) gravity, the maximum mass of neutron stars, and progress in the Equation of State of neutron matter from the effective theories of QCD.

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Título/Title: Forecast and analysis of the cosmological redshift drift

Ponente/Speaker: Ruth Lazkoz (Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Leioa)

Abstract: The cosmological redshift drift could lead to the next step in high-precision cosmic geometric observations, becoming a direct and irrefutable test for cosmic acceleration. In order to test the viability and possible properties of this effect, also called Sandage-Loeb (SL) test, we generate a model independent mock data set so as to compare its constraining power with that of the future mock data sets of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The performance of those data sets is analyzed by testing several cosmological models with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), both independently and combining all data sets. Final results show that, in general, SL data sets present allow for remarkable constrains on the matter density parameter today on every tested model, showing also a great complementarity with SNe and BAO data regarding dark energy (DE) parameters.

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Título/Title: Early Universe with a Born-Infeld taste

Ponente/Speaker: Jose Beltrán (Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT-CSIC), Madrid)

Abstract: SIn order to regularize the energy of point-like charged particles, Born and Infeld introduced a modification of the Maxwell Lagrangian that naturally imposes an upper bound on electromagnetic fields. Similar ideas can be applied to gravity to resolve the GR singularities. I will discuss some general theoretical aspects of these theories (which are shared by more general metric-affine theories) as well as some cosmological applications, with emphasis in non-singular and inflationary solutions.

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Título/Title: Lorentz invariance and the zero-point stress-energy

Ponente/Speaker: Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Abstract: Some 65 years ago (1951) Wolfgang Pauli noted that the zero-point energy density could be set to zero by a carefully fine-tuned cancellation between bosons and fermions. In this seminar I will argue in a slightly different direction: The zero-point energy density is only one component of the zero-point stress energy tensor, and it is this tensor quantity that is in many ways the more fundamental object of interest. I shall demonstrate that Lorentz invariance of the zero-point stress energy tensor implies finiteness of the zero-point stress energy tensro, and viceversa.

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Título/Title: Properties of Rotating Black Holes in Odd Dimensions

Ponente/Speaker: Paco Navarro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: On this talk, we will discuss about the properties of rotating Abelian black holes in odd-dimensional spacetimes, and show how the case when all angular momenta are equal becomes much simpler. This simplification also applies to theories with Chern-Simons terms, a cosmological constant, or scalar fields.

We will concentrate on the effects that do not appear in 4 dimensions and address subjects such as non-uniqueness, near-horizon geometry, radially excited solutions, etc.

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Título/Title: The smooth and clumpy universe: present and asymptotic behaviour(s)

Ponente/Speaker: Mariam Bouhmadi López (Universidad del País Vasco, IKERBASQUE, Spain)

Abstract: On this talk, we will present a review on dark energy singularities and abrupt events. We will start with a classical description of several models, including their behaviour at the perturbative level. Then, we will contrast our results with observational data. On the second part of the talk, we will focus on the quantum analysis of these singularities/abrupt events. The analysis will encompass also modified theories of gravity. Finally, if time allows, we will as well show how phantom dark energy models might not at all imply dark energy singularities in Einstein-Cartan theory.​

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Título/Title: Ondas gravitacionales: ¡así suena el Universo… por fin!

Ponente/Speaker: Profa. Alicia M. Sintes Olives (Universidad Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca)

Título/Title: Deformed relativistic symmetries: decoherence and dimensional reduction at the Planck scale

Ponente/Speaker: Michele Arzano (Universidad de Roma - La Sapienza, Italy)

Abstract: I will start with a brief introduction to the framework of deformed relativistic symmetries based on Lie-group momentum spaces whose curvature sets a fundamental (Planckian) UV scale at the kinematical level. I will then show how these models can be related to a fundamental decoherence at the Planck scale and how they are relevant for the phenomenon of “dimensional reduction”, ubiquitous in a variety of approaches to quantum gravity.

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Título/Title: Tension and constraints on modified gravity parametrizations of Geff(z) from growth rate and Planck data

Ponente/Speaker: Savvas Nesseris (Instituto de Física Teórica, Spain)

Abstract: Some of the current cosmological data, i.e. weak lensing (WL), growth rate, seem to be in tension with Planck15/LCDM and indicate consistently that there is a lack of gravitational power in structures on intermediate-small cosmological scales. This lack of power may be expressed through different cosmological parameters in a degenerate manner. In this talk, after a brief overview of WL and Redshift Space Distortion (RSD), I will present an updated and extended compilation of growth rate data based on recent RSD measurements and use it to test its consistency with the best fit Planck15/LCDM.

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Título/Title: Mapas de Galaxias Modernos, Espectros de Potencias de Galaxias y Forecast

Ponente/Speaker: Miguel Aparicio Resco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: La cosmología, entendida como rama de la física moderna, cuenta con tan solo cien años de historia desde su fundación en el contexto de la Teoría General de la Relatividad. Desde entonces las observaciones han ido aumentando a un ritmo vertiginoso, convirtiendo a la cosmología en una ciencia de precisión. Los últimos satélites encargados de medir el fondo cósmico de microondas, WMAP y Planck, así como el análisis de Supernovas Ia, nos han permitido conocer con precisión la composición del universo. Dicha composición requiere del enigmático fluido conocido como energía oscura, cuya dinámica es desconocida. Sin embargo, en los próximos años, las nuevas generaciones de mapas de galaxias (EUCLID, DESI, J-PAS…) nos permitirán conocer mucho más acerca de la energía oscura. En esta charla se presentarán distintos mapas de galaxias. Se expondrán varios efectos observables en los mapas de galaxias que dependen del modelo cosmológico. Y finalmente, concluiremos con las técnicas para estimar errores en los parámetros cosmológicos.

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Título/Title: Gravity at the horizon: new probes of gravity and cosmic acceleration

Ponente/Speaker: Miguel Zumalacárregui (Nordita, Sweden/UC Berkeley, USA)

Abstract: Gravity is core to many unsolved problems in physics, including the properties of black holes, the nature of space-time and the origin of the universe. The desire to better comprehend gravity and the mounting evidence for cosmic acceleration have led to the proliferation of both alternatives to Einstein's theory and efforts to test them. I will present recent progress to understand these theories and determine the properties of gravity using gravitational waves and the large scale structure of the universe: The speed of gravitational waves will provide the most stringent test for a large class of theories, while a new generation of galaxy surveys will be sensitive to new relativistic effects on the largest cosmological scales. I will also introduce /hi_class/ (href="www.hiclass-code.net"), an accurate, fast and flexible code to compute cosmological predictions in a very large class of gravitational theories.

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Título/Title: Relaciones universales I-LOVE-QNM para modos cuasi-normales de estrellas de neutrones que contienen materia exótica

Ponente/Speaker: Luis Manuel González Romero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: Se analizará el espectro de modos cuasi-normales de modelos realistas de estrellas de neutrones estudiando los modos axiales y polares. Consideraremos diferentes ecuaciones de estado que satisfacen la ligadura de 2 masas solares, la mayor parte de ellas conteniendo materia exótica. Se presentarán relaciones fenomenológicas nuevas entre la frecuencia y el tiempo de amortiguamiento de los modos. Estas nuevas relaciones son independientes de la ecuación de estado y relacionan el espectro de modos cuasi-normales con propiedades globales de la estrella. También, se presentarán relaciones universales entre las propiedades de los modos cuasi-normales y los parámetros I-LOVE-Q de estos modelos de estrellas de neutrones.

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Título/Title: Gran explosión, constante cosmológica y gravedad cuántica: maravillas del siglo

Ponente/Speaker: Gianluca Calcagni (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain)

Abstract: Tres cuestiones han caracterizado la física moderna de las últimas décadas. La primera es si singularidades tales como las de dentro de los agujeros negros o la Gran Explosión inicial que dio origen al cosmos se pueden resolver. La segunda es sobre la determinación de la verdadera naturaleza de la componente principal y más misteriosa del Universo, la llamada energía oscura o constante cosmológica. Ni el problema de la Gran Explosión ni el de la constante cosmológica se pueden acomodar en la relatividad general de Einstein o en modelos ordinarios de interacciones de partículas. Una posibilidad es que dichos problemas se puedan resolver unificando física cuántica y gravitación, pero es muy difícil formular una teoría y verificarla experimentalmente. Así, la tercera cuestión es cómo cuantizar la gravedad y extraer predicciones observables. En esta charla introduciremos estos temas de forma accesible a un público general.

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Título/Title: Primordial perturbations in Hybrid (Loop) Quantum Cosmology

Ponente/Speaker: Laura Castelló Gomar (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain)

Abstract: A lot of attention has been devoted recently to the consideration of quantum corrections to the power spectrum of primordial fluctuations, as a possible fundamental window on the Early Universe to explore quantum geometry phenomena. We present a framework for the quantum description of the evolution of cosmological scalar perturbations, starting from a formalism designed to preserve covariance, which allows us to extract physical predictions for those quantum modifications. We show how a Born-Oppenheimer ansatz leads to the recovery of a Mukhanov-Sasaki equation in which the coefficients are provided by expectation values on the background geometry. We also discuss technical tools and develop a procedure to deal with these quantum corrections beyond the most direct approximations. The case of hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology is commented here. However, the presented scheme is general and aims at increasing the ability to discriminate between the predictions of different quantization proposals for cosmological perturbations.

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Título/Title: Unruh-deWitt detectors: The Unruh effect and beyond

Ponente/Speaker: José de Ramón Rivera (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: The Unruh deWitt model describes particle detectors. These are two-level quantum systems in motion along certain space-time trajectories and coupled to quantum fields. This model is able to describe the so called Unruh effect: accelerated observers interact with the vacuum of a quantum field as if they were immersed in a thermal bath with a temperature proportional to its acceleration. We will discuss some aspects of this effect, unraveling the notion of thermal equilibrium for quantum fields and making use of the so called KMS (Kubo-Martin-Schwinger) condition.Moreover, we will see that the Unruh effect is not the end of the story, because in many scenarios some peculiarities of particle detectors are decisive, for instance the switching process, or the introduction of more than one detector. We will discuss some recent discoveries as well. We will study how thermalization takes place, looking for a thermalization time scale. Finally we will discuss when the monotonic behavior with “temperature” can be lost, inquiring into the counterintuitive, not well-understood yet Anti-Unruh effect.

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Título/Title: Low-energy effects in super-renormalizable gravity models

Ponente/Speaker: Breno Loureiro Giacchini (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Brasil)

Abstract: Local gravitational theories with more than four derivatives have remarkable quantum properties. Namely, they are super-renormalizable and may be unitary in the Lee-Wick sense, if the massive poles of the propagator are complex. It is important, therefore, to explore also the IR limit of these theories and identify observable signatures of the higher derivatives. In this talk we present recent results in this direction. Specifically, we discuss the viability of a gravitational seesaw-like mechanism, which could be a mean of avoiding the Planck suppression of the higher derivatives' effects. Also, we show that the modified Newtonian potential in these theories is always a real quantity, besides being regular at the origin, even if complex poles are allowed in the propagator. Finally, we consider the bending of light within the general six-derivative model and discuss the possibility of the experimental detection of higher derivatives through a frequency-dependent gravitational scattering.

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Título/Title: Loops for dummies

Ponente/Speaker: Guillermo A. Mena Marugán (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain)

Abstract: La Gravedad Cuántica de Lazos ("Loop Quantum Gravity" en inglés) es uno de los formalismos más sólidos como candidato para proporcionar una cuantización consistente de la Relativad General. Su aplicación a modelos que describen el origen y evolución del Universo ha dado lugar a una nueva disciplina física conocida como Cosmología Cuántica de Lazos. Su desarrollo está cambiando de raíz la visión que teníamos del Cosmos. En este coloquio comentaremos las ideas fundamentales en las que se basan la Gravedad y la Cosmología Cuántica de Lazos, y presentaremos en un tono informal (acorde a la filosofía de los "talks for dummies") algunos de sus avances más importantes.

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Título/Title: Playing with the Misner space and the topology

Ponente/Speaker: Juan Margalef Bentabol (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain/ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: Topology is essential in many branches of mathematics, however, in physics, it is often taken for granted as it usually plays no crucial role. I will try to show that on some cases topology turns out to be essential in order to understand some pathological behaviors that arise in general relativity. Namely I will talk about the so-called Misner space, which shows extremely pathological behaviors that can be neatly understood through topology. Besides I will introduce the g-boundary, a topological construction introduced by Hawking and Geroch in an attempt to define properly what a singularity is, and I will prove that in the case of the Misner space, one obtains the expected g-boundary.

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Título/Title: Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Unruh effect

Ponente/Speaker: Antonio Dobado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: In this work we consider the ontological status of the Unruh effect. Is it just a formal mathematical result? Or the temperature detected by an accelerating observer can lead to real physical effects such as phase transitions? In order to clarify this issue we use the Thermalization Theorem to explore the possibility of having a restoration of the symmetry in a system with spontaneous symmetry breaking of an internal continuous symmetry as seen by an accelerating observer. We conclude that the Unruh effect is an ontic effect rather than an epistemic one, giving rise, in the particular example considered here, to a phase transition (symmetry restoration) both for global and gauge symmetries (inverse Higgs mechanism) in the region close to the accelerating observer horizon.

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Título/Title: What model-independent reconstruction techniques really say about extended theories of gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Álvaro de la Cruz Dombriz (University of Cape Town and National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Republic of South Africa)

Abstract: Model independent techniques are crucial to test both the present ΛCDM cosmological paradigm and alternative theories making the least possible number of assumptions about the Universe. Whether cosmography is able to distinguish between different gravitational theories or not has remained so far an open question. I will present the bounds on model parameters for three different extensions of General Relativity, namely quintessence, F(Torsion) and f(R) theories. Using extensive data from the Union2.1 SN catalogue, BAO data and H(z) differential age compilations, and through a Monte Carlo analysis using a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm with a Gelman-Rubin convergence criterion this technique is shown to be capable of providing 1-σ and 2-σ constraints. I shall compare these results to the truncated ΛCDM paradigm, showing that the permitted regions of coefficients are significantly modified and in general widened compared to values reported in the existing literature. Finally Bayesian selection criteria AIC and BIC will provide further insight on the limitations of the method.

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Título/Title: Didáctica de Materia Oscura

Ponente/Speaker: José A.R. Cembranos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: De acuerdo con las observaciones actuales, la componente más abundante de la materia en el universo no se encuentra entre las partículas que conocemos dentro del modelo estándar de partículas e interacciones fundamentales. Este nuevo tipo de materia se conoce como materia oscura. Existen numerosas evidencias de su existencia, sin embargo, no se ha detectado a través de ningún proceso más allá de sus efectos gravitacionales. Por ello, la naturaleza de la materia oscura y sus características fundamentales continúan siendo un misterio, una de las cuestiones abiertas más importantes dentro de la física actual.

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Título/Title: Indirect searches of TeV Dark Matter at the Galactic Center

Ponente/Speaker: Viviana Gammaldi (SISSA, Italy)

Abstract: I will discuss several aspects of the indirect search of Dark Matter (DM) at the Galactic Center (GC). I will show that the gamma-ray flux observed by HESS from the J1745-290 GC source is well fitted as the secondary gamma-rays photons generated from DM annihilating into Standard Model particles in combination with a simple power-law background. The model independent fits are performed for all the possible channels of annihilation. The best fits are obtained for WIMP masses above ∼ 10 TeV. They require an enhancement factor of ∼ 10^3 and a background spectral index compatible with the Fermi-LAT data. I will investigate the possibility that the expected enhancement may be related with hydrodynamics in N-body simulation or a possible DM spike induced by the Super Massive Black Hole. I will also discuss the possibility that the latter could be related with the spatial tail detected in the gamma-ray signal by HESS II in 2015. These TeV DM masses are practically unconstrained by direct detection searches or colliders experiments, but they can be tested with the observations of other cosmic-rays.

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Título/Title: Learning to live with space-time singularities with the help of non-Riemannian geometry

Ponente/Speaker: Diego Rubiera (Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal)

Abstract: Space-time singularities are a conceptually disturbing aspect of Einstein's General Theory or Relativity (GR), in that they represent a breakdown on the fabric of space-time that severely compromises predictability of our physical theories. Their existence are endemic in GR, as they unavoidably arise under quite generic conditions. Seeking inspiration from the macroscopic description of crystalline structures with defects on their microstructure in solid state physics, we consider classical effective geometries going beyond the Riemannian geometry of GR. In such geometries, metric and affine connection are regarded as independent degrees of freedom, which avoids any troubles with higher-order derivative field equations and ghost-like instabilities. Using electrovacuum fields, we show that spherically symmetric black hole solutions avoid the presence of geodesically incomplete curves via wormholes, thus allowing for information and time-like observers to be well defined at all times. From the propagation of scalar waves in these geometries we show that the potential presence of curvature divergences entails no danger for the transit of physical observers.

Título/Title: Observational imprints of the interacting multiverse

Ponente/Speaker: Salvador Robles Pérez (Estación Ecológica de Biocosmología)

Abstract: The most controversial feature of the multiverse may be its testability. We present a novel paradigm of the multiverse where non-local interactions and other quantum correlations may exist among the universes of the multiverse. The interactions among universes may: i) determine some global properties of a single universe without violating its notion of causal closure; ii) produce a landscape structure of vacuum states that might lead to different process of vacuum decay; and iii) induce a pre-inflationary stage in the evolution of the universe that cannot be reproduced by any known matter content. All these effects would leave distinctive and distinguishable imprints in the properties of the CMB, making the whole proposal (and the underlying theories) testable.

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Título/Title: Unitary dynamics selecting a quantization of the Dirac field in cosmology

Ponente/Speaker: Beatriz Elizaga de Navascués (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain)

Abstract: It is well known that linear canonical transformations are not generally implemented as unitary operators in QFT. Such transformations include the dynamics that arises from linear field equations on the background spacetime. This evolution is specially relevant in nonstationary backgrounds, where there is no time-translational symmetry that can be exploited to select a quantum theory. We investigate whether it is possible to find a Fock representation for the canonical anticommutation relations of a Dirac field, propagating on a homogeneous and isotropic cosmological background, such that the field evolution is unitarily implementable. First, we restrict our attention to Fock representations that are invariant under the group of spatial isometries of the background. Then, we prove that there indeed exist Fock representations such that the dynamics is implementable as a unitary operator. Finally, once a convention for the notion of particles and antiparticles is set, we show that these representations are all unitarily equivalent.

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Título/Title: Late-time cosmology in f(R) gravity

Ponente/Speaker: João Morais (UPV)

Abstract: Since the discovery of the current acceleration of the Universe by the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team in 1998, several proposals have been put forward to explain the nature of the dark energy fluid that governs such late-time behaviour. Among these different proposals, the modified theories of gravity, which have since then been the focus of a renewed interest, try to obtain the late-time acceleration through modifications of the Einstein-Hilbert action. In this talk, we will focus on metric f(R) theories of gravity, a particular class of modified theories of gravity, which replace the Ricci scalar R in the action by a general function f(R). In a first step we review the "designer" or "reconstruction" approach, which tries to derive viable f(R) actions from cosmological models. We apply this methodology to the modified Generalized Chaplygin Gas and obtain the compatible f(R). This model is constrained, using the latest Planck 2015 data, within the cosmographic approach and through the computation of the effects on the matter power spectrum as observed today. The matter power spectrum is computed using the full theory of linear perturbations for metric f(R) theories without any approximation in the perturbed equations.

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Título/Title: Spacetime-noncommutativity regime of Loop Quantum Gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Michele Ronco (Universidad de Roma - La Sapienza, Roma, Italia)

Abstract: A recent study by Bojowald and Paily provided a path toward the identication of an effective quantum-spacetime picture of Loop Quantum Gravity, applicable in the "Minkowski regime", the regime where the large-scale (coarse-grained) spacetime metric is flat.

A pivotal role in the analysis is played by Loop-Quantum-Gravity-based modications to the hypersurface deformation algebra, which leave a trace in the Minkowski regime. We here show that the symmetry-algebra results reported by Bojowald and Paily are consistent with a description of spacetime in the Minkowski regime given in terms of the kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime, whose relevance for the study of the quantum-gravity problem had already been proposed for independent reasons.

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Título/Title: Hamiltonian formulation of parametrized field theories: incorporating boundaries and gauge symmetries

Ponente/Speaker: Fernando Barbero (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain)

Abstract: Parametrized field theories have been used as a test bed for polymer quantization techniques in Loop Quantum Gravity. In this talk I will review the Hamiltonian formulation for singular (constrained) systems and discuss several issues that play a relevant role in the Hamiltonian description of parametrized models when boundaries and internal gauge symmetries are present. For concreteness I will concentrate on the discussion of the scalar field subject to several types of boundary conditions and electromagnetism.

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Título/Title: Quantum corrections to the Higgs potential on a curved background

Ponente/Speaker: Franco D. Albareti (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: I will present recent results on finite gravitational corrections to the Higgs effective potential. In particular, 1-loop corrections due to the Higgs self-interactions are computed in a perturbed FRW background by mode summation. For this aim, the Klein-Gordon equation is solved to first order in perturbations and to zero order in the adiabatic approximation.

Dimensional regularization techniques are used to compute not only the divergent parts of the effective potential but also the finite ones. The obtained results amount to the presence of inhomogeneities in the Higgs vacuum expectation value which translate into variations on the masses of elementary particles. Possible observable signatures within the Solar System and on cosmological scales will be discussed.

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Título/Title: Einstein-Yang-Mills-Lorentz Black Holes

Ponente/Speaker: Jorge Gigante Valcárcel (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: Since the discovery of the first non-abelian solution to the Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) theory done by Bartnik and McKinnon, a large number of properties and different solutions have been obtained. As they manifestly violate the non-hair conjecture, they have attracted much attention and encouraged a deep search for other black hole geometries.

In this talk, first we will review the most relevant particle-like and black hole solutions for such a theory. In addition, we will focus on the EYM-SO(N) model and establish a particular equivalence between this case and a certain class of theories with torsion within Riemann-Cartan space-times, in order to simplify the problem of finding exact solutions to the EYM equations. Finally, solutions for the torsion-free and the non-vanishing torsion with rotation and reflection symmetries will be presented by the explicit use of this method.

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Título/Title: Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of Dirac fields with unitary dynamics

Ponente/Speaker: Beatriz Elizaga Navascués (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: It is well known that linear canonical transformations are not generally implemented as unitary operators in QFT. Such transformations include the dynamics that arises from the field equations on the background spacetime. This evolution is specially relevant in nonstationary backgrounds, where there is no time-translational symmetry that can be exploited to select a quantum theory. We investigate whether it is possible to find a Fock representation for the canonical anticommutation relations of a Dirac field, propagating on a homogeneous and isotropic cosmological background, such that the field evolution is unitarily implementable. First, we restrict our attention to Fock representations that are invariant under the group of spatial isometries of the background. Then, we prove that there indeed exist Fock representations such that the dynamics is implementable as a unitary operator. Finally, once a convention for the notion of particles and antiparticles is set, we show that these representations are all unitarily equivalent.

Título/Title: Clasificación completa de singularidades cosmológicas

Ponente/Speaker: Leonardo Fernández-Jambrina (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: El descubrimiento de la expansión acelerada del universo ha motivado la consideración de singularidades cosmológicas más allá de los clásicos Big Bang y Big Crunch. La primera de ellas fue el Big Rip, pero, a medida que se han ido proponiendo nuevos modelos, han ido apareciendo muchas más posibilidades. Incluso se están proponiendo nuevos escenarios no singulares como estado final posible para el Universo, tales como el Little Big Rip o el Pseudorip.

En esta charla se propondrá un intento sistemático de derivar todas estas familias de singularidades y escenarios, y algunas nuevas más, a partir de desarrollos en serie generalizados del parámetro de deceleración del universo o del índice barotrópico y se relacionará con resultados anteriores para determinar la fuerza de estas singularidades, ya que en muchos caso son débiles y no podrían considerarse un final para el universo.

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Título/Title: Fast oscillating fields cosmology

Ponente/Speaker: Santos J. Núñez Jareño (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España)

Abstract: The ubiquity of scalar fields in cosmology is not only owed to its simplicity, but mainly because it intrinsically respects the large degree of isotropy observed in the universe. On the contrary, the evolution of a coherent vector field is clearly anisotropic. However, we will show that the energy-momentum tensor of homogeneous fields of arbitrary spin in an expanding universe is always isotropic in average provided the fields remain bounded and evolve rapidly compared to the rate of expansion. This property enlarge the plausible candidates to solve cosmological problems to higher spin theories.

In the second part of the talk, we will discuss the perturbations of a fast oscillating scalar field under a power law potential, following an effective approach as well as the exact system solution in the sub/super-Hubble limits.

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Título/Title: Colapso de materia cuántica autogravitante sobre una geometría cuántica

Ponente/Speaker: Javier Olmedo (Universidad Estatal de Lousiana, Baton Rouge, EEUU)

Abstract: En esta charla voy a resumir los últimos avances en relación a la cuantización de espacio-tiempos esféricamente simétricos en gravedad cúantica de lazos. Resumiré brevemente el escenario en ausencia de materia. Después, consideraré el acoplo con una cáscara autogravitante, fina, esférica y sin masa. Introduciré una redefinición del álgebra de ligaduras de tal modo que la ligadura escalar conmute consigo misma. Mostraré que esto se puede llevar a cabo también en el nivel cuántico. Además proporcionaré los observables cuánticos del modelo y definiré las componentes de la métrica a partir de ellos como observables parametrizados. Finalmente discutiré las consecuencias físicas.

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Título/Title: Is Cosmography a useful tool to target extended theories of gravity?

Ponente/Speaker: Álvaro de la Cruz Dombriz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España)

Abstract: Model-independent methods in cosmology have become an essential tool in order to deal with an increasing number of theoretical alternatives for explaining the late-time acceleration of the Universe. In principle, this provides a way of testing the Cosmological Concordance model under different assumptions and to rule out whole classes of competing theories. One such model-independent method is the so-called cosmographic approach, which relies only in the homogeneity and isotropy of the Universe on large scales. We show that this method suffers from many shortcomings, providing biased results depending on the auxiliary variable used in the series expansion and is unable to rule out models or adequately reconstruct theories with higher-order derivatives in either the gravitational or matter sector. Consequently, in its present form, this method seems unable to provide reliable or useful results for cosmological applications.

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Título/Title: Higher derivative actions and inflation in string theory

Ponente/Speaker: Francisco Pedro (Instituto de Física Teórica, CSIC, Madrid, España)

Abstract: In this talk I will explore some aspects of higher derivative (>2) supergravity actions. I will review how the vacua and scalar potential of the bosonic sector of type IIB string compactifications can get modified in the presence of such corrections and will use them to build a viable inflationary model, where the inflaton is a geometric modulus, parametrising the size of the compactification space.

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Título/Title: Phase Space Noncommutativity: From Gravity to Quantum Mechanics

Ponente/Speaker: Catarina Bastos (Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa, Portugal)

Abstract: A phase-space noncommutativity (NC) is considered in the context of a Kantowski-Sachs cosmological model. Then, the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole is analyzed. One deduces the thermodynamics and show that the Hawking temperature and entropy exhibit an explicit dependence on the momentum noncommutativity parameter, η. Furthermore, the t=r=0 singularity is analysed in the noncommutative regime and it is shown that the wave function vanishes in this limit.

Quantumness and separability criteria for continuous variable systems are discussed for the case of a NC phase-space quantum mechanics. In particular, the quantum nature and the entanglement configuration of NC two-mode Gaussian states are examined. Finally, a more general measurement disturbance uncertainty principle is presented in a Robertson-Schrödinger formulation. It is shown that it is stronger and having nicer properties than Ozawa’s uncertainty relations. In particular is invariant under symplectic transformations. One shows also that there are states of the probe (measuring device) that saturate the matrix formulation of measurement disturbance uncertainty principle.

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Título/Title: Aplicaciones del grafeno en física fundamental. Renormalización, campos gauge y curvatura con fermiones de Dirac sin masa en dos dimensiones

Ponente/Speaker: José González Carmona (IEM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: El descubrimiento del grafeno ha supuesto toda una revolución, no solo por el considerable potencial de este material para aplicaciones tecnológicas, sino también por ofrecer un banco de pruebas donde experimentar con una gran variedad de fenómenos de física fundamental.

En esta charla repasaremos algunos de los efectos que derivan del comportamiento de las excitaciones electrónicas del grafeno como fermiones de Dirac sin masa, haciendo énfasis en cómo el grado de libertad adicional (pseudoespín) de las excitaciones conduce a signaturas no convencionales que se pueden medir en el sistema electrónico.

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Título/Title: Intrinsic time in quantum geometrodynamics

Ponente/Speaker: Eyo E. Ita (US Naval Academy)

Título/Title: Sistema de dos niveles en las cercanías de un agujero negro de Schwarzschild

Ponente/Speaker: Jose Sánchez (IEM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: La búsqueda de agujeros negros no es tarea fácil. Mediante el estudio del espectro de emisión espontánea de un sistema de dos niveles, se propone una posibilidad para la misma. Se discuten aspectos básicos de la cuantización de campos cuando consideramos espacio tiempos no planos y se discuten algunos de los efectos derivados. Igualmente se discuten los aspecto básicos de la óptica cuántica para sistemas de dos niveles, llegando a la llamada ecuación maestra.

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Título/Title: Loop Quantum Cosmology, Non-Gaussianity, and CMB anomalies

Ponente/Speaker: Ivan Agulló (LSU, USA)

Título/Title: Squeezed spin-networks and entanglement

Ponente/Speaker: Eugenio Bianchi (Penn State University, USA)

Título/Title: Effective field theory approach to modified gravity with applications to inflation and dark energy

Ponente/Speaker: Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

Título/Title: 3D Holography

Ponente/Speaker: Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute, Canada)

Título/Title: Numerical investigations of the EPRL model

Ponente/Speaker: Benjamin Bahr (DESY, Germany)

Título/Title: Sparsity of the Hawking flux

Ponente/Speaker: Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Abstract: The Hawking flux that reaches spatial infinity is extremely sparse and thin, with the Hawking quanta dribbling out of the black hole one-by-one. The typical time between quanta reaching infinity is larger than the timescale set by the energy of the quanta by factors of many hundreds. Among other things, this means that the Hawking evaporation of a black hole should be viewed as a sequential cascade of 3-body decays.

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Título/Title: Constraining the early universe with primordial black holes

Ponente/Speaker: Sam Young (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom)

Abstract: Primordial black holes (PBHs) could have formed very early in the history of the universe after inflation ended. They are a viable dark matter candidate and represent a unique probe to study the small scales of the early universe, not visible by other means. I will discuss how PBHs have been used to constrain the small scales, and how this depends strongly on the non-Gaussianity parameters, as well as how PBHs can be used to constrain the large scales in the early universe.

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Título/Title: “The magnificent seven and friends”: Horndeski theories self-tuning to de Sitter

Ponente/Speaker: Prado Martín Moruno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: The cosmological constant problem is not alleviated in the context of alternative theories of gravity generically. Focusing attention on theories with equations containing non-higher than second order derivatives, Horndeski theories, there is a dynamical adjustment mechanism able to screen any value of the cosmological constant. Under the assumption that the gravity's vacuum is described by a de Sitter geometry, the late time accelerated expansion of the universe can be understood as the result of that adjustment mechanism. I will present the Horndeski models able to carry out that kind of screening, which, therefore, have a de Sitter critical point for any type of material content. I will summarize the cosmological consequences of the resulting models, emphasizing the case with symmetry under shift redefinitions of the field.

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Título/Title: Non-linear evolution of the BAO scale in alternative theories of gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Miguel Zumalacárregui (ITP Heidelberg, Germany / Nordita, Sweden)

Abstract: The scale of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) imprinted in the matter distribution is known to suffer sub-percent deviations from being a perfect standard ruler due to non-linear corrections. However, such corrections have never been computed in alternative theories of gravity. I will give an overview of historical and recent developments in alternative theories of gravity and present the first computation of the BAO shift based on perturbation theory (à la Bellini-Sawicki) and a peak-background split (à la Sherwin-Zaldarriaga), valid for any Horndeski theory. The BAO shift is modified by the enhanced growth of linear perturbations, as well as by novel, non-linear gravitational effects. The modified gravity result can range from a negligible to order-unity correction at z=0 depending on the model, and in some cases presents a characteristic time evolution. Although small, this effect might be within the reach of future galaxy surveys, and might have implications for BAO reconstruction in theories other than Einstein's.

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Título/Title: Quantum cosmology: Games without frontiers

Ponente/Speaker: Ana Alonso Serrano (IFF, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: In classical General Relativity, the presence of horizons excises parts of the spacetime making inaccessible physical observations beyond them. But, is it so quantum mechanically? We develop a canonical quantization of a minisuperspace model whose classical solutions possess horizons, in order to check that this is not the case: Quantum gravitational states with support in spacetime configurations that exclusively describe either each region of the whole spacetime are not consistent, due to quantum correlations that appear across the horizon, making the physical states of the different regions not separable but entangle.

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Título/Title: Generalized GFT condensates and Cosmology

Ponente/Speaker: Lorenzo Sindoni (Albert Einstein Institute, Germany)

Título/Title: Modifying General Relativity: is it worth?

Ponente/Speaker: Diego Sáez-Gómez (U. of Lisbon and ACGC, Portugal - U. of Cape Town, South Africa)

Abstract: In this talk I will review some models of modified gravities and their features from a classical point of view. Over the last years, modified gravities have drawn much attention within the cosmological context since they can reproduce with great accuracy the late-time acceleration and even the inflationary epoch. I will show the pros and cons of some of the main proposals.

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Título/Title: Separability and quantum mechanics

Ponente/Speaker: Fernando Barbero (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

Título/Title: An explicit computation of the evaporation of a quantum black hole

Ponente/Speaker: Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, EE.UU.)

Título/Title: Graphene: Dirac fermions in curved spaces

Ponente/Speaker: Alberto Cortijo (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC)

Abstract: It is well known that the low energy electronic excitations in graphene are described by the massless Dirac equation. It might seem natural in terms of effective field theories that when a graphene sheet is corrugated the description in terms of Dirac fermions can still be valid, but in a curved background. In this seminar we review the consequences of assuming such viewpoint and we compare it with the usual approach adopted in solid state physics.

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Título/Title: Quantum curves

Ponente/Speaker: Muxin Han (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, EE.UU.)

Título/Title: Cosmology with group field theory condensates

Ponente/Speaker: Steffen Gielen (Imperial College, Londres, Reino Unido)

Título/Title: Anomaly-induced effective action and Starobinsky model of inflation

Ponente/Speaker: Ilya L. Shapiro (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil)

Abstract: The effective action of gravity contains the main information about quantum effects, but in most cases it can not be calculated exactly. An important exception is the one-loop effective action for massless conformal invariant matter fields, which can be obtained by integrating trace anomaly. The integration constant is an arbitrary conformal functional of the background metric, but for the zero-order cosmology this functional is irrelevant and the solution becomes exact. The most important applications include systematic classification of vacuum states in the vicinity of the black hole and the Starobinsky model of inflation. The last is based on the non-local anomaly-induced metric, however the most relevant part is a local term which is just a square of the scalar curvature. The modified version of the model does not require special choice of initial conditions and is based on the interpolation between stable and unstable inflationary solutions.

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Título/Title: No firewalls in quantum gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Alejandro Pérez (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marsella, Francia)

Título/Title: A bridge between the microscopic structure of space-time and effective geometries: the crystal lessons

Ponente/Speaker: Diego Rubiera-García (Universidad de Fudan, Shanghái, China)

Abstract: A striking mathematical and physical resemblance exists between quantum gravity effective geometries arising from a hypothetical microstructure of space-time pervaded by creation and annihilation of wormholes (space-time foam), and the continuized version of crystalline structures. If the latter contains defects on its microstructure, the macroscopic effective description must be done in terms of a metric-affine geometry with nonmetricity and torsion. Using a crystal-motivated action in a simplified scenario, we find the presence of Wheeler's geons: self-consistent topologically non-trivial gravito-electromagnetic entities, representing the gravitional analog of point defects.

What lessons can we extract from this analogy?

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Título/Title: Rainbows from quantum gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Andrea Dapor (Universidad de Varsovia, Polonia)

Título/Title: CMB: beyond the standard statistical scenario

Ponente/Speaker: Thiago Dos Santos Pereira (Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brasil)

Abstract: In this talk I will review the basic hypotheses which motivate the statistical framework used to analyze the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), and discuss how that framework can be enlarged as we relax those hypotheses. In particular, I will try to separate as much as possible the questions of gaussianity, homogeneity and isotropy from each other, while giving particular emphasis to their signatures and the enhanced "cosmic variances" that become increasingly important as our putative Universe becomes less symmetric. After reviewing the basic formalism I will present a few model-independent statistical tests, including some new results, which can be applied to CMB data when searching for large scale “anomalies”.

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Título/Title: Topological Quantum Computation - From Concepts To Experiment

Ponente/Speaker: Markus Müller (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract: Quantum computers hold the promise to allow one to solve problems that cannot be efficiently treated on classical computers. To date, the construction of a quantum computer remains a fundamental scientific and technological challenge, due the influence of unavoidable noise which affects the fragile quantum states. In our talk, we begin with a general introduction to quantum computation and then introduce the basic idea of quantum error correction based on topological quantum codes, which allow one to protect quantum information during storage and processing. We then discuss a recent experimental realization of a quantum error correcting code in which a logical qubit was distributed over seven trapped-ion qubits. This encoding not only allowed us to detect arbitrary single-qubit errors, but also to realize for the first time quantum computations on an encoded qubit. This quantum error correcting code represents a fully functional instance of a topologically encoded qubit, or color code, and opens a route toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.

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Título/Title: Invariance of Connections and Measures in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Ponente/Speaker: Maximilian Hanusch (Universidad de Paderborn, Alemania)

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Título/Title: SL(2,C) Chern-Simons Theory and Spinfoam Gravity with a Cosmological Constant

Ponente/Speaker: Hal Haggard (Bard College, Nueva York, EEUU) & Aldo Riello (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá)

Título/Title: Sala de sem. FT-I, Fac. de Física UCM

Ponente/Speaker: Franco D. Albareti (Instituto de Física Teórica, IFT-CSIC/UAM, Madrid)

Abstract: A comoving cutoff is used to renormalize the vacuum stress-energy tensor of a scalar field in RW geometries in a covariant way. At the IR regime (late times) a matter-like contribution dominates. A phenomenological bound to the comoving cutoff is obtained from the current abundance of dark matter. It is also shown that this "dark matter" could support perturbations with a negligible speed of sound, thus it could seed the formation of structures. Besides, I will present the latest results on the possible variation of the fine structure constant using SDSS-III/BOSS QSO spectra with [OIII] emission lines.

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Título/Title: Lorentz transformations from abstract quantum theory: a thought experiment

Ponente/Speaker: Philipp Hoehn (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá)

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Título/Title: New applications for LQG

Ponente/Speaker: Jerzy Lewandowski (Universidad de Varsovia, Polonia)

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Título/Title: White holes

Ponente/Speaker: Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marsella, Francia)

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Título/Title: Phenomenological consequences of quantum geometries in LQC

Ponente/Speaker: Brajesh Gupt (Penn State University, State College, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Casimir effect on a quantum geometry

Ponente/Speaker: Javier Olmedo (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Statistical and entanglement entropy for black holes in quantum geometry

Ponentes/Speakers: Alejandro Pérez (Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marsella, Francia)

Abstract: I will discuss the relationship between entanglement (or geometric) entropy with statistical mechanical entropy of horizon degrees of freedom when described in the framework of isolated horizons in loop quantum gravity. We show that, once the relevant degrees of freedom are identified, the two notions coincide. The key ingredient linking the two notions is the structure of quantum geometry at Planck scale implied by loop quantum gravity, where correlations between the inside and outside of the black hole are mediated by eigenstates of the horizon area operator.

Organizado con/Organized with: Grupo de Teorías de Campos y Física Estadística del Instituto Universitario Gregorio Millán Barbany, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Unidad Asociada al IEM-CSIC.

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Título/Title: Supernovae as probes of cosmic parameters: estimating the bias from under-dense lines of sight

Ponente/Speaker: Vinicius Busti (Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Center, University of Cape Town, Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica)

Abstract: Correctly interpreting observations of sources such as type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) require knowledge of the power spectrum of matter on AU scales—which is very hard to model accurately. Because under-dense regions account for much of the volume of the universe, light from a typical source probes a mean density significantly below the cosmic mean. The relative sparsity of sources implies that there could be a significant bias when inferring distances of SNe Ia, and consequently a bias in cosmological parameter estimation. While the weak lensing approximation should in principle give the correct prediction for this, linear perturbation theory predicts an effectively infinite variance in the convergence for ultra-narrow beams. In this talk, I will adopt an observational viewpoint and discuss some approximations to see the effects of under-dense lines of sight might have in parameter estimation. Also, I will address tests to decide what is the best way to describe light propagation in the real Universe.

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Título/Title: The cosmological constant problem: a lesson from Helium-3

Ponente/Speaker: Gil Jannes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España)

Abstract: The effective gravity emerging for relativistic quasiparticles in superfluid 3He-A provides a direct connection between the properly determined vacuum energy and the cosmological constant lambda. This connection is non-trivial, and requires a detour via the masses of the "gravitons" in the associated bi-metric gravity. Although the cosmological constant lambda turns out to be huge—it is determined by the effective Planck scale—, the cosmological term (the stress-energy tensor associated to lambda) is in fact naturally non-constant and vanishes in the equilibrium vacuum, as dictated by thermodynamics. This suggests that the equilibrium state of any condensed-matter system, and perhaps also the final state of the Universe, is not gravitating.

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Título/Title: Junction conditions in gravity theories

Ponente/Speaker: José M. M. Senovilla (Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, España)

Abstract: I will present the method to obtain the proper junction conditions in general theories of gravity, highlighting the differences specific to General Relativity (GR) and its peculiarities. As an illustrative example I will consider F(R) Lagrangian theories explicitly.
The discussion will analyze two different junction levels: allowing for branes/thin shells or not. In the former case I will argue that the generic brane/shell construction is crucially different to that in GR. In the latter case I will show that properly matched solutions in GR are no longer solutions of F(R)—and other—theories.
(An exceptional case arises in theories with a Lagrangian quadratic in the curvature: gravitational double layers are feasible, and this leads to new Physics—but I will probably have no time to describe this)

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Título/Title: Hawking radiation in LQG

Ponente/Speaker: Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Cosmología y Gravedad Cuántica

Ponente/Speaker: Gianluca Calcagni (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, España)

Abstract: Se revisan los problemas cosmológicos de la Gran Explosión (¿El universo nació de una singularidad inicial como predice la relatividad clásica?) y de la energía oscura (¿Por qué el universo reciente está acelerando?) en algunos enfoques de gravedad cuántica y teorías que van más allá del Modelo Estándar. Aunque no haya todavía ninguna solución consolidada y satisfactoria de ambos problemas, las observaciones cosmológicas modernas pueden proporcionar una valiosa información sobre diversos modelos exóticos de física de partículas y de gravedad.

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Título/Title: LQC and the very early universe

Ponente/Speaker: Ivan Agullo (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, EE.UU.), Aurélien Barrau (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, Francia) y Guillermo A. Mena Marugán (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, España)

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Título/Title: Linking canonical and covariant LQG

Ponente/Speaker: Antonia Zipfel (Universidad de Varsovia, Polonia)

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Título/Title: Continuum limit and renormalization

Ponente/Speaker: Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá)

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Título/Title: Averaging and modified gravity theories: An overview of tools able to explain the cosmological late-time acceleration

Ponente/Speaker: Álvaro de la Cruz Dombriz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España)

Abstract: One possible explanation for the present observed acceleration of the Universe is the breakdown of homogeneity and isotropy due to the formation of non-linear structures. How the formation of non-linear structures and subsequent inhomogeneities affect the averaged cosmological expansion rate and may eventually lead to late-time acceleration is usually referred to asbackreaction mechanism. General Relativity together with dust matter scenarios have until recently been considered as the sole ingredients for averaged calculations. We shall present the backreaction formalism in more general scenarios, including imperfect fluids as well as extended theories of gravity, and apply an averaging procedure to them in order to determine possible backreaction effects.

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Título/Title: Cosmological solutions in bigravity

Ponente/Speaker: Prado Martín-Moruno, (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal)

Abstract: Bigravity theories, which are formulated using two mutually interacting dynamical metrics, were initially introduced by Isham, Salam, and Strathdee in the seventies. These theories have recently attracted considerable attention since Hassan and Rosen found a bigravity theory which is potentially stable, that is, free of the Boulware–Deser ghost which otherwise affects these theories. As bigravity can be interpreted to describe two different universes, I will present a simple way to study the cosmology of such a classical bi-universe in general situations. I will pay particular attention to the interplay of both gravitational sectors and how one can extract conclusions about the dynamics of one universe from the knowledge about the occurrence of violent events in the other universe.

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Título/Title: Cosmología y Gravedad Cuántica

Ponente/Speaker: Gianluca Calcagni (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, España)

Abstract: Se revisan los problemas cosmológicos de la Gran Explosión (¿El universo nació de una singularidad inicial como predice la relatividad clásica?) y de la energía oscura (¿Por qué el universo reciente está acelerando?) en algunos enfoques de gravedad cuántica y teorías que van más allá del Modelo Estándar. Aunque no haya todavía ninguna solución consolidada y satisfactoria de ambos problemas, las observaciones cosmológicas modernas pueden proporcionar una valiosa información sobre diversos modelos exóticos de física de partículas y de gravedad.

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Título/Title: S-matrices for General Boundary QFT on Anti de Sitter spacetime

Ponente/Speaker: Max Dohse (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, México)

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Título/Title: Emergent electromagnetism: some training towards a theory of emergent gravity

Ponente/Speaker: Carlos Barceló (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, España

Abstract: TBA

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Título/Title: Discussion on simplicity constraints in spin foam models

Ponentes/Speakers: Marc Geiller (PennState University, State College, PA, EE.UU.) y Simone Speziale (Centre de Physique Théorique de Marseille, Marsella, Francia)

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Título/Title: Quantum group spin nets: refinement limit and relation to spin foams

Ponentes/Speakers: Sebastian Steinhaus (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá)

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Título/Title: A new vacuum for loop quantum gravity

Ponentes/Speakers: Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá)

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Título/Title: Loop quantization of spherically symmetric vacuum spacetimes

Ponentes/Speakers: Javier Olmedo (Instituto de Física, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)

Abstract: We provide a quantization of spherically symmetric vacuum spacetimes within loop quantum gravity. Concretely, a modification of the classical constraints that preserves the classical constraint surface leaves us with a constraint algebra free of structure functions. We then adopt the Dirac quantization scheme together with a representation mimicking the one of loop quantum gravity. We find the solutions to the constraints and a suitable inner product. Eventually, we provide the physical Hilbert space out of them together with the quantum observables of the model, some of them without classical counterpart.

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Título/Title: The Shape of Space, from Black Holes to the Universe

Ponentes/Speakers: Jean-Pierre Luminet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Observatoire de Paris, Francia)

Abstract: The description of the shape of our physical space at various scales (length scales or energy scales) involves a rich variety of geometrical models, each depending on the underlying physical theory. Imaging distorted space and time by gravitational and quantum fields is a big challenge of modern fundamental physics. I shall discuss such space representations for describing the shape of space around black holes, next the global shape of our universe in the framework of cosmic topology, and eventually give hints on the shape of spacetime at the quantum scale. Striking movies and color visualizations will be displayed.

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Título/Title: Semiclassical limit of Loop Quantum Gravity: from graphs to manifolds

Ponentes/Speakers: Iñaki Garay (Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brasil)

Abstract: The building blocks of a quantum theory of General Relativity are expected to be discrete structures. Loop Quantum Gravity is formulated using a basis of spin networks (wave functions over oriented graphs with colored edges), thus realizing the aforementioned expectation. Semiclassical states should, however, reproduce the classical smooth geometry in the appropriate limits. The question of how to recover a continuous geometry from these discrete structures is, therefore, relevant in this context. Here we explore this problem using properties of Voronoi graphs.

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Título/Title: Matter matters in asymptotically safe quantum gravity

Ponentes/Speakers: Pietro Donà (International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italia)

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Título/Title: Towards the resolution of the CGHS singularity in LQG

Autor/Author: Saeed Rastgoo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, México)

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Título/Title: Bianchi IX LQC: What can we learn from shape dynamics?

Autor/Author: Tim Koslowski (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canadá)

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Título/Title: Bianchi IX LQC: Quantization ambiguity and effective description

Autor/Author: Asieh Karami (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, México)

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Título/Title: Holographic special relativity: observer space from conformal geometry

Autor/Author: Derek Wise (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Alemania)

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Título/Title: Black hole entropy from LQG: higher dimensions and generalized theories

Autor/Author: Norbert Bodendorfer (PennState University, State College, PA, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Probing the quantum nature of spacetime by diffusion

Autor/Author: Gianluca Calcagni (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, España)

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Título/Title: The imaginary part of the GR action and the large-spin 4-simplex amplitude

Autor/Author: Yasha Neiman (PennState University, State College, PA, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: A loop quantum multiverse?

Autor/Author: Martin Bojowald (PennState University, State College, PA, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Hamiltonian spinfoam gravity.

Autor/Author: Wolfgang Wieland (Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marsella, Francia)

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Título/Title: Bianchi I Loop Quantum Cosmology.

Autor/Author: Brajesh Gupt (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Quantum reduced loop gravity.

Autor/Author: Emanuele Alesci y Francesco Cianfrani (Universidades de Varsovia y Breslavia, Polonia)

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Título/Title: Gravity electroweak unification.

Autor/Author: Stephon Alexander (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Cosmic singularities and varying constants cosmologies.

Autor/Author: Mariusz P. Dabrowski (Instituto de Física, Universidad de Szczecin, Szczecin, Polonia)

Abstract: I will review standard and exotic cosmological singularities paying special attention to those which are of a weak type and do not necessarily exhibit geodesic incompletness. Then, I will discuss whether some of these singularities can be weakened, strengthened, or avoided due to the time-variation of the physical constants such as the speed of light $c$ and the gravitational constant $G$.

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Título/Title: Dinamical Chaos and the volume gap.

Autor/Author: Hal Haggard (Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marsella, Francia)

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Título/Title: Entanglement in loop quantum gravity.

Autor/Author: Eugenio Bianchi (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá.)

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Título/Title: Finite Quantum Gravity and M-Theory

Autor/Author: Leonardo Modesto (Universidad de Fudan, Shanghai, China)

Abstract: We hereby present a class of higher derivative theories that realizes an ultraviolet completion of Einstein gravity. This class is marked by a non­polynomal entire function (form factor), which averts extra degrees of freedom (including ghosts) and improves the high energy behaviour of the loop amplitudes. By power counting arguments, it is proved that the theory is (super-­)renormalizable in any dimension, i.e. only one-­loop divergences survive. Furthermore, in odd dimensions there are no counter terms for pure gravity and the theory turns out to be "finite". Consequently, by introducing an infinite tower of massive states coming from dimensional reduction, quantum gravity is finite in even dimension, as well. Comparing these theories with superstring and string field theories, a unique form factor is singled out. In view of this, we can modify the 10-­dimensional supergravity and finally get a ultraviolet completion of 11-­dimensional supergravity by an "oxidation process". The result is a finite "Quantum M-­theory".

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Título/Title: Coarse graining: toward a cylindrically consistent dynamics.

Autor/Author: Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canadá.)

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Título/Title: Twistorial structure of loop quantum gravity transition amplitudes.

Autor/Author: Simone Speciale (Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marsella, Francia.)

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Título/Title: Renormalization of Tensorial Group Field Theories.

Autor/Author: Sylvain Carrozza (Albert Einstein Institut, Potsdam, Alemania.)

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Título/Title: Horizon entropy from loop gravity.

Autor/Author: Eugenio Bianchi (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.)

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Título/Title: Lifting General Relativity to Observer Space.

Autor/Author: Derek Wise (Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Alemania.)

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Título/Title: Lattice Loop Quantum Cosmology.

Autor/Author: Edward Wilson-Ewing, (Centre de Physique Théorique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marsella, Francia.)

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Título/Title: Representación Hamiltoniana Alternativa para la Relatividad General.

Autor/Author: Ricardo Rosas, (CINVESTAV, México)

Abstract: TBA.

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Título/Title: Introduction to multifractional spacetimes

Autor/Author: Gianluca Calcagni (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, España)

Abstract: We review the recent construction of a multi-scale fractal spacetime where power-counting renormalizable field theories can be defined. Applications to quantum gravity are discussed.

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Título/Title: Computable framework of loop quantum gravity.

Autor/Author: Tomasz Pawloswki (Warsaw University, Varsovia, Polonia)

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Título/Title: Flux coherent states.

Autor/Author: Lorenzo Sindoni (MPG - Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Alemania.)

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Título/Title: Can effects to quantum gravity be observed in the cosmic microwave background?

Autor/Author: Manuel Krämer (Universidad de Colonia, Colonia, Alemania)

Abstract: We investigate the question whether small quantum-gravitational effects can be observed in the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation. An observation of such an effect is needed in order to discriminate between different approaches to quantum gravity. Using canonical quantum gravity with the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we find a suppression of power at large scales. Current observations only lead to an upper bound on the energy scale of inflation, but the framework is general enough to study other situations in which such effects might indeed be seen.

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Título/Title: Nonsingular Charged Black Holes in Extensions of General Relativity à la Palatini.

Autor/Author: Gonzalo Olmo (Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad de Valencia)

Abstract: I present the field equations of a quadratic extension of general relativity (GR) formulated in the Palatini approach (assuming that metric and connection are independent fields). Then I discuss static, spherically symmetric solutions with an electric field (Reissner-Nordstrom black holes). Unlike in GR, all the solutions of this theory present a central core whose area is proportional to the Planck area times the number of charges. Some of these solutions are nonsingular. In this case, the mass-to-charge ratio implies that the core matter density is independent of the specific amounts of charge and mass and of order the Planck density.

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Título/Title: Graviton Corrections to Maxwell's Equations.

Autor/Author: Richard Woodard (Institute of Fundamental Theory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Path integral measure and triangulation independence in discrete gravity.

Autor/Author: Sebastian Steinhaus (MPG - Albert Einstein Institut, Potsdam, Alemania.)

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Título/Title: Effective Field Theories for Quamtum Gravity form Shape Dynamics.

Autor/Author: Tim Koslowski (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.)

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Título/Title: Black hole evaporation in LQG.

Autor/Author: Jacobo Díaz-Polo (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Continuous formulation of the LQG phase space.

Autor/Author: Marc Geiller (Université Paris Diderot, Paris, Francia)

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Título/Title: Classical limit of SF on arbitrary triangulation.

Autor/Author: Claudio Perini (Penn State University, State College, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Physics of Bianchi models in LQC.

Autor/Author: Parampreet Singh (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Spin networks and classical dynamics for loop quantum gravity.

Autor/Author: Etera Livine (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon, Lyon, Francia)

Abstract: TBA.

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Título/Title: Statistical concordance model of CMB.

Autor/Author: Thiago Pereira (Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brasil)

Abstract: Careful scrutiny of CMB maps have motivated several works in which anisotropic inflation could explain known large-angle CMB anomalies. After summarizing general aspects of some of these models, I intend to make a critical review of this approach. In particular, I will argue that: 1) some anomalies are not a signature of statistical anisotropy; 2) non-gaussianity, though barely explored in this context, is equally likely to produce large-angle anomalies; 3) it's hard to assess the real statistical significance of known anomalies; and 4) in the context of Lambda-CDM model, only one of the known anomalies corresponds to a physical observable.

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Título/Title: A canonical formalism for simplicial gravity.

Autor/Author: Philipp Hoehn (University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Holanda)

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Título/Title: Plebanski sectors of the new spin foam models.

Autor/Author: Jonathan Engle (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Ratón, EE.UU.)

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Título/Title: Inhomogeneous loop quantum cosmology.

Autor/Author: William Nelson (Penn State University, State College, EE.UU.).

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Título/Title: New variables in arbitrary dimensions.

Autor/Author: Norbert Bodendorfer y Andreas Thurn (Universidad de Erlangen, Erlangen, Alemania)

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Título/Title: The Feynman diagramatics for the spin foam models.

Autor/Author: Jacek Puchta (University of Warswaw, Varsovia, Polonia).

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Congreso Internacional en Gravedad Cuańtica: Loops 11.

Organizadores/Local Organizing Committee: J. Fernando Barbero González, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán, Luis J. Garay Elizondo, Eduardo J. Sánchez Villaseñor, Iñaki Garay Elizondo, Mercedes Martín-Benito, Gonzalo Olmo Alba, Tomasz Pawlowski, Mikel Fernández Méndez, Daniel Martín de Blas, Javier Olmedo Nieto.

Título/Title: Quantum geometry: its dynamics, symmetries and statistics in the group field theory formalism.

Autor/Author: Daniele Oriti (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Alemania).

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Título/Title: The 1/N expansion in colored tensor models.

Autor/Author: Razvan Gurau (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá).

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Título/Title: Simplicity constraints and the role of the Immirzi parameter in quantum gravity.

Autor/Author: James Ryan (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Alemania).

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Título/Title: Observational signatures in LQC.

Autor/Author: Ivan Agulló (PennState University, State College, EE.UU.).

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Título/Title: Quantum deformation of 4d spin foam models.

Autor/Author: Winston Fairbairn (Hamburg University, Hamburgo, Alemania).

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Título/Title: The principle of relative locality.

Autor/Author: Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canadá).

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Título/Title: Relatividad especial sin coordenadas.

Autor/Author: Fernando Barbero (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Universidad CSIC).

Abstract: TBA.

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Título/Title: Semiclassicality of the Loop Quantum Universe.

Autor/Author: Tomasz Pawlowski (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canadá).

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Título/Title: On the Electromagnetic Nature of Dark Energy and the Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields.

Autor/Author: Antonio López Maroto (Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Abstract: Out of the four components of the electromagnetic field, Maxwell's theory only contains two physical degrees of freedom. However, in an expanding universe, consistently eliminating one of the "unphysical" states in the covariant (Gupta-Bleuler) formalism turns out to be difficult to realize. In this talk we explore the cosmological consequences of the presence of this third electromagnetic polarization. Although the new state cannot be produced from charged matter, it can be excited gravitationally. In fact, primordial quantum fluctuations produced during inflation can give rise to super-horizon temporal electromagnetic modes whose energy density behaves as a cosmological constant. The value of the effective cosmological constant is shown to agree with observations provided inflation took place at the electroweak scale. On the other hand, on sub-horizon scales, because of the high electric conductivity of the cosmic plasma, the new state gives rise to both vorticity and magnetic fields. Present upper limits on vorticity coming from CMB anisotropies are translated into lower limits on the present value of cosmic magnetic fields. We find that fields $B_{\lambda} > 10^{-12}$ G can be typically generated with coherence lengths ranging from sub-galactic scales up to the present Hubble radius.

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Título/Title: Spinfoam Cosmology.

Autor/Author: Francesca Vidotto (Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy, Marsella, Francia).

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Título/Title: Inflationary observables and observational constraints in LQC.

Autor/Author: Gianluca Calgani (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Alemania).

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Título/Title: Colliding black holes in 3+1 and higher dimensions.

Autor/Author: Ulrich Sperhake (Departamento de Física y Astonomía, CSIC-IEEC).

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Título/Title: Diffeomorphism Symmetry in Group Field Theories.

Autor/Author: Florian Girelli (School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia).

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Título/Title: Bubble divergences in state-sum models.

Autor/Author: Matteo Smerlak (ENS, Lyon).

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Título/Title: Conserved structures in states of Loop Quantum Gravity.

Autor/Author: Jonathan Hackett (Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canadá).

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Título/Title: A classical setting for Loop Quantum Gravity.

Autor/Author: Iñaki Garay (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Abstract: We will review the U(N) framework for Loop Quantum Gravity and describe the corresponding phase space of the SU(2) intertwiners in terms of spinors (imposing appropriate constraints). We will show how its quantization leads back to the standard Hilbert space of intertwiner states. Then, we will take care of the gluing of these intertwiner states in order to construct spin network states. In particular, we will translate the usual loop gravity holonomy observables to our classical framework. Finally, we will propose a way to derive our phase space structure from an actionprinciple which induces non-trivial dynamics for the spin network states. As an specific example, we will discuss the application of our framework to states living on the simple 2-vertex graph and discuss the properties of the resulting Hamiltonian.

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Título/Title: LQG dynamics:insights from parameterized field theory.

Autor/Author: Madhavan Varadarajan (Raman Research Institute).

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Título/Title: New results: operator spin foams, SL(2,C).

Autor/Author: Jerzy Lewandowski (Universidad de Varsovia).

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Título/Title: Horizon effects for surface waves: wave channels and circular jumps.

Autor/Author: Gil Jannes (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis).

Abstract: Surface waves in classical fluids experience a rich array of black/white hole horizon effects. The dispersion relation depends on the characteristics of the fluid (in our case, water and silicon oil) as well as on the fluid depth and the wavelength regime. In some cases, it can be tuned to obtain a relativistic regime plus high-frequency dispersive effects. I discuss two types of ongoing analogue white-hole experiments: deep water waves propagating against a counter-current in a wave channel and shallow waves on a circular hydraulic jump.

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Título/Title: Introducción a cosmología cuántica de lazos vista desde mis vivencias.

Autor/Author: Mercedes Martín Benito (Departamento de Química y Física Teóricas, IEM - CSIC).

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Título/Title: LQG with all the degrees of freedom

Autor/Author: Jerzy Lewandowski (Universidad de Varsovia).

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Título/Title: Sobre la ambigüedad en la cuantización de teorías de campo

Autor/Author: Jerónimo A. Cortez, UNAM (Méjico).

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Título/Title: The cosmological constant (non)-problem

Autor/Author: Eugenio Bianchi (Marsella).

Abstract: TBA.

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Título/Title: Evolution Picture in Loop Quantum Cosmology.

Autor/Author: Mercedes Martín Benito (Departamento de Química y Física Teóricas, IEM - CSIC).

Abstract: In general relativity there is not a fixed time that leads to a fixed concept of physical evolution. As a consequence, in the particular case of quantum cosmology, in order to interpret the physical observables as evolving in time, the construction of a well-defined picture of unitary evolution is needed. Usually it is provided by a massless scalar field playing the role of the internal time. Rather than using that suitable clock, here we develop the concept of physical evolution in quantum cosmology when the internal time is one of the geometry degrees of freedom, both in the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization and in Loop Quantum Cosmology. For concreteness, we apply our analysis to the vacuum Bianchi I cosmologies.

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Título/Title: The Skeleton of Chaotic Eigenstates.

Autor/Author: Fabio Revuelta Peña (Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ).

Abstract: The correspondence between Classical and Quantum Mechanics is well understood in integrable systems but it still an open problem when the system is no longer integrable and chaos takes place. The field that studies the quantum manifestations of classically chaotic systems is usually known as "Quantum Chaos". Periodic Orbits (OPs) have a dramatic influence on the classical dynamics of a chaotic system, when the motion is no longer confined to invariant tori due to their breakdown according to KAM Theorem. The influence of the periodic orbits (POs) on the density of states of a chaotic system has been known for a very long time since Gutwiller's celebrated Trace Formula . Unfortunatelly, this expression is not usefull for practical reasons, as the number of POs that must be considered increases exponentially. One of the most surprising phenomena in Quantum Chaos is scarring. Scar functions were originally defined as eigenstates that had an enhanced probability density concentrated over unstable POs. This definition was later generalized to groups of eigenstates . More recently, it has been demonstrated that scarring does not only take place over the unstable POs but also over their invariant manifolds. Scarring allows one to identify classical structures that create the eigenstates of a system, thus identifying the classical skeleton of purely quantum objects. In this talk, we will briefly summarize the history of scar functions and discuss some of their most important properties.

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Título/Title: Dynamics for a 2-vertex Quantum Gravity Model.

Autor/Author: Iñaki Garay (Institute for Theoretical Physics III, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Abstract: In spite of the several approaches to implement the dynamics within the loop quantum gravity theory, it is still an open problem. In this talk we will discuss a tentative dynamics for the simplest class of graphs in loop quantum gravity: Two vertices linked with an arbitrary number of edges. This model represents two regions, in and out, separated by a boundary surface. We will use the U(N) framework recently introduced by E. Livine and collaborators in order to identify area creation and annihilation operators. Finally, we will propose a Hamiltonian operator invariant under area-preserving deformations of the boundary surface and we will explore physical applications and possible generalizations.

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Título/Title: Non-singular cosmologies à la Palatini.

Autor/Author: Gonzalo J. Olmo (IEM - CSIC).

Abstract: I will discuss how modifications of Einstein's theory using the Palatini formalism can lead to the resolution of the big bang singularity in several cases of interest.

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Título/Title: The two faces of quantum sound.

Autor/Author: Luis Garay (Universidad Complutense de Madrid / IEM - CSIC).

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Título/Title: Conformal geometry in GR: Dealing with initial singularities and stability questions.

Autor/Author: Christian Luebbe (Queen Mary University, London).

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Título/Title: How sharp is the Universe's memory?

Autor/Author: Tomasz Pawlowski (IEM).

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Título/Title: Continuidad, suavidad y gravedad.

Autor/Author: Fernando Barbero (IEM, CSIC).

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Nombre: Dr. Andrés Cano.

Afiliación: Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada.

Título: Defect-Induced Damping of the Lattice Vibrations: a Key Factor at Low Temperatures.

Fecha: 25 de abril de 2007.

Nombre: Prof. Abhay Ashtekar.

Afiliación: Penn State University, University Park, PA, E.E.U.U.

Título: Quantum Nature of the Big Bang.

Fechas: 17 de octubre de 2006.