Conference Program
 
The program will take place in OAC
 

Last updated: September 2, 2002

Saturday, September 7
08:00 - 22:00 Arrival and Registration
Sunday, September 8
  Chair: Domenec Espriu
10:45 - 11:00 Welcome
11:00 - 12:00 Renate Loll
(Utrecht University)
Spacetime from nothing (Abstract)
12:00 - 12:15 Coffee Break
12:15 - 13:15 Klaus Fredenhagen
(DESY)
1:Quantum fields on noncommutative spacetimes: unitarity, renormalizability, and the infrared problem (Abstract)
13:15 - 16:00 Lunch Break
  Chair: Bergfinnur Durhuus
16:00 - 17:00 Jorge Pullin
(Louisiana State University)
1:Consistent lattice formulation of Lorentzian general relativity (Abstract)
17:00 - 17:30 Thordur Jonsson
(University of Iceland)
Nonexistence of multisolitons on the Moyal plane (Abstract)
17:30 - 18:00 Peter Austing
(University of Iceland)
Solitons on the fuzzy sphere (Abstract)
18:00 - 18:15 Coffee Break
18:15 - 19:00 Zdzislaw Burda
(Jagiellonian University)
Wealth Condensation in Pareto Macro-Economies (Abstract)
Monday, September 9
  Chair: Jan Ambjorn
10:00 - 11:00 Klaus Fredenhagen
(DESY)
2:Quantum fields on noncommutative spacetimes: unitarity, renormalizability, and the infrared problem (Abstract)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Domenec Espriu
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Slow dynamics in the 3d gonihedric model (Abstract)
12:15 - 16:00 Lunch Break
  Chair: Jerzy Jurkiewicz
16:00 - 17:00 Bergfinnur Durhuus
(University of Copenhagen)
String bit models of 2D Gravity (Abstract)
17:00 - 17-45 Noboru Kawamoto
(Hokkaido University)
Twisted superspace and Dirac-Kaehler fermion from generalized gauge theory (Abstract)
17:45 Coffee
20:00 Cretan Evening
 
Tuesday, September 10
  Chair: Des Johnston
10:00 - 11:00 Jan Ambjorn
(NBI)
3d Lorentzian gravity from matrix models (Abstract)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Philippe Di Francesco
(Saclay)
1:Geometrically constrained statistical models on fixed and random lattices: from hard squares to meanders (Abstract)
12:15 - 16:00 Lunch Break
  Chair: Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos
16:00 - 17:00 Des Johnston
(Heriot-Watt University)
Ising Retread(s) (Abstract)
17:00 - 17:45 Mauro Carfora
(Univ. of Pavia)
Regge Random Geometries, moduli spaces and holography (Abstract)
17:45 - 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:30 Janik Romuald
(Niels Bohr Institute)
Interpolation between open and closed strings (Abstract)
18:30 - 19:00 Aleix Prats
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Cluster algorithm for two-dimensional spin model with plaquette interactions (Abstract)
Wednesday, September 11
  Chair: John Wheater
10:00 - 11:00 Philippe Di Francesco
(Saclay)
2:Geometrically constrained statistical models on fixed and random lattices: from hard squares to meanders (Abstract)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 George Savvidy
(Nat.Rec.Cen.Demokritos)
Conformal invariant superstring with extrinsic curvature action in 6-dimensions (Abstract)
12:15 - 16:00 Lunch Break
  Chair: Charlotte Kristjansen
16:00 - 17:00 Richard Szabo
(Heriot-Watt University)
1:Exact Solutions of Noncommutative Field Theory in Two Dimensions (Abstract)
17:00 - 17:45 Emmanuel Floratos
(Nat.Rec.Cen.Demokritos)
Scaling violations from AdS5 strings (Abstract)
17:45 - 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:30 Wolfgang Bietenholz
(Humboldt Univ. Berlin)
Numeric Simulations for Non-Commuative Field Theory (Abstract)
Thursday, September 12
  Chair: Renate Loll
10:00 - 11:00 Richard Szabo
(Heriot-Watt University)
2:Exact Solutions of Noncommutative Field Theory in Two Dimensions (Abstract)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Matt Visser
(Victoria University)
1:The quantum physics of chronology protection. (Abstract)
12:15 - 16:00 Lunch Break
  Chair: Emmanuel Floratos
16:00 - 17:00 Jerzy Jurkiewicz
(Jagellonian University)
Matrix model of 3d simplicial gravity (Abstract)
17:00 - 17:45 Gernot Akemann
(Saclay)
New results on random matrix models with complex eigenvalues (Abstract)
17:45 - 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:30 Graziano Vernizzi
(Oxford University)
A new class of multicritical matrix models (Abstract)
18:30 - 19:00 Karim Noui
(CNRS France)
Quantum gravity and quantum groups (Abstract)
Friday, September 13
  Chair: Thordur Jonsson
10:00 - 11:00 Charlotte Kristjansen
(NBI)
A New Double-Scaling Limit of N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory and PP-Wave Strings (Abstract)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Matt Visser
(Victoria University)
2: Wormholes and nontrivial topology. (Abstract)
12:15 - 15:00 Lunch Break
  Chair: Bengt Petersson
16:00 - 17:00 John Wheater
(Oxford University)
TBA (Abstract)
17:00 - 17:45 Alexander Nichols
(Oxford University)
Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory (Abstract)
17:45 - 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:30 Ruben Costa-Santos
(Utrecht University)
The Critical Ising Model and Discrete Riemann Surfaces (Abstract)
18:30 - 19:00 Zoltan Kadar
(Utrecht University)
The `t Hooft polygon representation of 2+1 gravity (Abstract)
Saturday, September 14
  Chair: Zdzislaw Burda
10:00 - 11:00 Jun Nishimura
(Nagoya University)
Convergent Gaussian expansion method and its applications to matrix models (Abstract)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Konstantinos
Anagnostopoulos
(Univ. Crete)
Dynamical Generation of Space-Time Dimensions in String Theory Using a Computer: Status and Future Prospects (Abstract)
12:15 - 15:00 Lunch Break
  Chair: Charlotte Kristjansen
15:00 - 15:20 Luisa Doplicher
(University of Rome)
IR/UV connection and phenomenology in canonical noncommutative spacetime (Abstract)
15:20 - 15:40 Raffaele Fazio
(Nat.Rec.Cen.Demokritos)
Yang-Mills theories in the maximal abelian gauge (Abstract)
15:40 Last Coffee Break !?
  End of the Meeting
Sunday, September 15
  Departure




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