ST2 - Schedule
Monday, September 3, 2007 chiar-person:  R. Zalaletdinov
9.30-9.45  Opening remarks
9.45-10.30.  T. Thiemann  lecture on the quantization scheme in Loop Quantum Gravity
10.30-10.35  Break for questions  
10.35-11.15  T. Thiemann  lecture on the quantization scheme in Loop Quantum Gravity
11.15-11.30  Coffee break
11.30-12.30  T. Damour  "Effective One Body approach to coalescing binary black holes"
  12.30-13.15  G. Montani  "Sincrhonous Quantum Gravity: Early Universe dynamics"
 
13.15-14.45  Lunch
   
14.45-15.15  F.Cianfrani-O.M.  Lecian  "Stuckelberg: a forerunner of modern physics II"
15.15-15.45  F. Cianfrani  "The role of the time gauge in the 2nd order formalism"
15.45-16.15  G.V. Vereshchagin  "Semi-classical Loop Quantum Cosmology"
16.15-16.30  Coffee Break
16.30-17.15  E. Magliaro. C. Perini  "Comparing loop quantum gravity with the linearized theory"
17.15-17.30  E. Alesci  "The full graviton propagator from loop quantum gravity"
17.30-18.00  discussion on Loop  Quantum Gravity
 
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 chair-person:  S.S. Xue   
9.30-10.15

 T. Thiemann

 lecture on problems and prospectives in Loop Quantum Gravity
10.15-10.20  Break for questions  
  10.20-11.00

 T. Thiemann

 lecture on problems and prospectives in Loop Quantum Gravity
11.00-11.15  Coffee break

  11.15-12.15  T. Damour  "Chaos and symmetry in string cosmology"
  12.15-13.00  G. Vereshchagin  "Thermalization of the pair plasma"
   
12.45-14.30  Lunch

14.30-15.00  N. Carlevaro  "Lorentz Gauge Theory and the geometrical structure of the space-time"
15.00-15.30  K. Giesel  "Dirac observables"
15.30-15.45  Coffee break
15.45-16.15  O. M. Lecian  "Exponential Lagrangian for the gravitational field and the problem of vacuum energy"
16.15-17.00  R. Zalaletdinov  "Macroscopic Gravity and Averaging Problem in Cosmology"
17.00-17.30  S.S. Xue   "The gravitational origin of fermion masses"
17.30-18.00  discussion on problems  and perspectives in Loop Quantum Gravity. Comparison with string-theoretical approaches
18.00-18.15 C. Sigismondi "Meteotsunami detection in Adriatic and Tyrrenian sea"
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 chair-person:  H. Kleinert  
9.30-10.15

 T. Thiemann

 lecture on main issues in Loop Quantum Cosmology
10.15-10.20  Break for questions
10.20-11.00

 T. Thiemann

 lecture on the problem of time in Loop Quantum Gravity
11.00-11.15  Coffee break
11.15-12.15  T. Damour  "Chaos and symmetry in string cosmology"
12.15-13.00  G. Amelino-Camelia "Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and a generalization of the Noether theorem for quantum spacetime"
13.00-14.45  Lunch
 
15.00-15.45  M.V. Battisti  "Minisuperspace dynamics in the GUP framework"
15.45-16.15  A. Geralico  "Perturbations of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole by a charged massive particle at rest "
16.15-16.30  Coffee break
16.30-17.00  K. Giesel  "Geometrical Operators"
17.00-17.30  S. Xue  "Electron-positron productions in inhomogeneous electric fields"
17.30-17.45  F. Cianfrani "Curvature-spin coupling from the semi-classical limit of the Dirac equation"
17.45-18.15  discussion on Quantum Cosmology
Thursday, September 6, 2007 chair-person:  R. Benini
9.30-10.15

 T. Thiemann

 lecture on Master Constraint quantization
10.15-10.20  Break for questions
10.20-11.00  T. Thiemann  lecture on Master Constraint quantization
11.00-11.15

 Coffee break

 
  11.15-12.15   T. Damour   "Chaos and symmetry in string cosmology"
12.15-12.45

 N. Carlevaro

 "On the role of viscosity in Early Cosmology" 
12.45-13.00  S. Zonetti  "The parametrizing fluids in canonical Quantum Gravity"
   
13.00-14.45  Lunch  
 
15.00-15.30  F. Cianfrani  "Elementary particle interaction from a Kaluza-Klein scheme"
15.30-16.00  V. Lacquaniti  "On the problem of the matter coupling in a 5d Kaluza-Klein theory"
16.00-16.30  O.M. Lecian  "Extended fundamental space-time symmetries"
16.30-16.45  Coffee break
16.45-17.15  C. Perini  "Noncommutative geometries: an overview"
17.15-17.45  M. Pizzi   "Electric force lines of the double Reissner-Nordstrom solution"
17.45-18.15  discussion on new developments in Loop Quantum Gravity and hints on a multi-dimensional version.
Friday September 7, 2007 chair-person:  R. Ruffini 
9.30-10.15

 T. Thiemann

 lecture on Algebraic Canonical Quantization
10.15-10.20  Break for questions
10.20-11.00

 T. Thiemann

 lecture on Algebraic Canonical Quantization
11.00-11.15  Coffeee break
11:15-11:45  R. Benini   "Mixmaster dynamics in the Wheeler-DeWitt framework"
  11.45-12.30  F. Zonca  "The Physics of Burning Plasmas in Toroidal Magnetic Field Devices"
12.30-12.45  I. Milillo  "On the coupling between spinning particles and cosmological gravitational waves"
12.45-13.00  M.V. Battisti  "Cosmological implication of Evolutionary Quantum Gravity"
  13.00-13.15 concluding remarks