Università degli studi del Piemonte Orientale
"Amedeo Avogadro"
Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali
26-31 March 2007: Noncommutative Spacetime Geometries
26-31 March 2007
Department of Sciences and Advanced Technologies (DISTA)
Faculty of Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont at Alessandria
via Bellini 25/G, 15000 Alessandria, ITALY
Schedule
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Monday, 26 March 2007
| 9.00-9.30 | Opening |
| 9.30-10.15 | Ali CHAMSEDDINE Spectral actions for the practitioner |
| 10.20-11.05 | Petr KULISH Twist related geometries and field theory |
| 11.10-11.30 | Break |
| 11.30-12.15 | Julius WESS Deformation of field theories |
| 12.20-13.05 | Josip TRAMPETIC Renormalizability of theta-expanded noncommutative gauge field theories |
| Lunch | |
| 14.50-16.00 | Posters and pastries |
| 16.00-17.30 | Fruits and discussions |
| 17.30-18.15 | Giovanni LANDI Spectral Geometry and Noncommutative Gauge Theories |
| 18.20-19.05 | Miguel VAZQUEZ MOZO Noncommutative gravity vs. string theory |
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
| 9.30-10.15 | Julius WESS Deformation of field theories |
| 10.20-11.05 | Giovanni LANDI Spectral Geometry and Noncommutative Gauge Theories |
| 11.10-11.30 | Break |
| 11.30-12.15 | Ali CHAMSEDDINE Spectral actions for the practitioner |
| 12.20-13.05 | Chong sun CHU Time-dependent AdS/CFT duality and null singularity |
| Lunch | |
| 14.50-17.20 | Arefeva, Chu, Lizzi, Porrati, Sternheimer, Claessens COSMOLOGY SESSION |
| 17.20-19.00 | Fruits and discussions |
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
| 9.30-10.15 | Sergio DOPLICHER Geometry of Quantum Spacetime |
| 10.20-11.05 | Giovanni LANDI Spectral Geometry and Noncommutative Gauge Theories |
| 11.10-11.30 | Break |
| 11.30-12.15 | Ali CHAMSEDDINE Spectral actions for the practitioner |
| 12.25-13.25 | Short talks of junior participants |
| Lunch | |
| Free afternoon and excursion | |
| Social dinner |
Thursday, 29 March 2007
| 9.30-10.15 | Aiyalam BALACHANDRAN Quantum Hall Effect and the Standard Model on the Moyal Plane |
| 10.20-11.05 | Fedele LIZZI Twistimg all the way: from Classical Mechanics to Quantum Fields |
| 11.10-11.30 | Break |
| 11.30-12.15 | Harald GROSSE On Induced Gauge Models over Noncommutative Spaces |
| 12.20-13.05 | John MADORE On Poisson Energy |
| Lunch | |
| 14.50-17.20 | Fruit and discussions |
| 17.20-18.05 | Richard SZABO D-branes and duality on noncommutative manifolds |
| 18.10-18.40 | Harold STEINACKER Dynamical generation of fuzzy extra dimensions, symmetry breaking, and fermions |
| 18.50-19.35 | Raimar WULKENHAAR Quantum field theories on projective modules |
| 20.00-21.00 | Refreshments |
| Sergio DOPLICHER CONFERENZA PUBBLICA: Scienza e Conoscenza, la Prospettiva della Fisica (text, slides) |
Friday, 30 March 2007
| 9.30-10.15 | Nicola TELEMAN Modified Hochschild and Periodic Cyclic Cohomology |
| 10.20-11.05 | Piotr HAJAC Instanton bundles from a noncommutative join construction |
| 11.10-11.30 | Break |
| 11.30-12.15 | Ludwik DABROWSKI Are quantum groups noncommutative manifolds? |
| Lunch | |
| 14.15-15.00 | Claudio CARMELI Introduction to supermanifolds and supergroups |
| 15.00-15.45 | Gianni CASSINELLI Induced representations of super Lie groups. |
| 15.45-16.00 | Break |
| 16.00-16.45 | Maria LLEDO A supergroup approach to superconformal space time. |
| 16.45-17.25 | Rita FIORESI A functorial approach to supergeometry |
| 17.30-19.00 | Fruits and discussions |
Saturday, 31 March 2007
| 9.30-10.15 | Stanislaw WORONOWICZ Selected topics in quantum "ax+b" group |
| 10.20-11.05 | Olaf LECHTENFELD Supersymmetric Noncommutative Solitons |
| 11.10-11.30 | Break |
| 11.30-12.00 | Mauro FRANCAVIGLIA The Geometry of the Barbero-Immirzi Connection in Loop Quantum Gravity |
| 12.05-12.35 | Gaetano FIORE On the role of twisted Poincare' symmetry in QFT on Moyal-Weyl spaces |
| 12.40-13.25 | George ZOUPANOS Reduction of Couplings in Unified Theories: From Finiteness to Fuzzy Extra Dimensions |
