Quantum Gravity in the Americas III Proceedings
August 24-26, 2006
Osmond Laboratory, Room 201

The Scientific Organizing Committee

Thursday, August 24th
Session 1: 9:00-10:30 - Renormalization Group and Einstein Gravity
Chair: Max Neidermaier (Universite de Tours, France)
Frank Saueressig (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
	Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity Nonperturbative renormalizability and fractal space-times
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Robert Oeckl (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
	Renormalization without Background
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Session 2: 11:00-12:30 - Loop Quantum Cosmology
Chair: David Craig (Lemoyne University)
Parampreet Singh (Penn State)
	Recent Advances in Loop Quantum Cosmology
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Tomasz Pawlowski (Penn State)
	Numerics in LQC
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Seth Major (Hamilton College)
	Effective Theory for Primordial Gravitational Waves
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Pablo Laguna (Penn State)
	Numerics of the Big Quantum Bounce: The Shallow Waters of the Big Bang
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Session 3: 2:00-3:30 - Cosmology and Observations
Chair: Ted Jacobson (Univ. of Maryland)
Daniel Sudarsky (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
	New Physics at the quantum origin of cosmic structure
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Nelson Nunes (Univ. of Minnesota)
	The power spectrum from superinfation in LQC
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Session 4: 4:00-5:30 - Effective Descriptions
Chair: Martin Bojowald (Penn State)
Laurent Freidel (PI, Canada)
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Radu Roiban (Penn State)
	Singularities, Effective Actions and String Theory
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Friday, August 25th
Session 5: 9:00-10:30 - Discrete Approaches
Chair: Rodolfo Gambini (Instituto de Fisica, Uruguay)
Luca Bombelli (Univ. of Mississippi)
	Causal Sets: Overview and Status
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Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University)
	Uniform discretizations: the continuum limit of consistent discretizations
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Session 6: 11:00-12:30 - The Physical Sector of LQG
Chair: Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University)
Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw University, Poland)
	The Status of the Hamiltonian Constraint in LQG
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Binaca Dittrich (PI, Canada)
	The Master Constraint Programme
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Session 7: 2:00-3:30 - Spin Foams
Chair: Laurent Freidel (PI, Canada)
Robert Oeckl (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
	The General Boundary Formulation of Quantum Theory
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Florian Conrady (Penn State)
	Gluon propagator from Yang-Mills spin foams
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Session 8: 4:00-5:30 - Quantum Geometry and Matter
Chair: Seth Major (Hamilton College)
Kevin Vandersloot (Penn State)
	Effective Dynamics of Loop Quantum Cosmology
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Mikhail Kagan (Penn State)
	Inhomogeneities in Loop Cosmology
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Fotini Markopoulou (PI, Canada)
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Saturday, August 26th
Session 9: 9:00-10:30 - Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
Chair: Daniel Sudarsky (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
David Mattingly (Univ. of California)
	Recent progress in QG Phenomenology
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Daniel Sudarsky (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
	New Physics at the quantum origin of cosmic structure
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Saurya Das (Univ. of Lethbridge, Canada)
	Randall-Sundrum with Kalb-Ramond Field: return of the hierarchy problem?
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Brendan Foster (Univ. of Maryland)
	Æthereal Gravity: Observational Constraints on Einstein- Æther Theory
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Alejandro Corichi (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
	A Different Approach(?)
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Session 10: 11:00-12:30 - Mathematical Issues in LQG
Chair: Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw University, Poland)
Jonathan Engle (Penn State)
	Quantum field theory and symmetry reduced models
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Jose-Antonio Zapata (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
	Loopy QM is equivalent to Schrodinger QM
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Daniel Cartin (Naval Academy Preparatory School)
	Matrix methods in loop quantum cosmology
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Session 11: 2:00-3:30 - Interface of Gravity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
Chair:Warner Miller
Ted Jacobson (Univ. of Maryland)
	Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Spacetime
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Stephon Alexander (Penn State)
	Baryogenesis from Inflationary Gravity Waves
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Andrew Randono (Univ. of Texas)
	Generalizing the Kodama State
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Session 12: 4:00-5:30 - Discussion and Summary
Chair: Alejandro Corichi (Instituto de Matematicas UNAM, Mexico)
Fotini Markopoulou, Jonathan Engle, Jerzy Lewandowski, Alejandro Corichi
	Round Table on Black Hole Entropy
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Saurya Das (Univ. of Lethbridge, Canada)
	Entanglement as a Source of Black Hole Entropy
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Arundhati Dasgupta (Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada)
	Entropy of Apparent Horizons and Semiclassical Physics
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Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State)
	Summary and Outlook: Clarifications, Elucidations & Future directions
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