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Schedule

Sunday, November 8, 2009

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 9:30 AM – 12:00 PMAsymptotic Safety workshop in sessionPlease note that the "Asymptotic Safety" workshop will be in session today until 12:00pm. All participants from the "Gravity at a Lifshitz Point" workshop are encouraged to arrive early today and attend the final talks of the "Asymptotic Safety" workshop. Bob Room
 12:00 – 1:20 PMRegistration & Lunch Black Hole Bistro
 1:20-1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks  Bob Room
 Session Chair: Rob Myers
 1:30 – 2:30 PMPetr Horava,
University of California, Berkeley		Quantum Gravity with Anisotropic ScalingBob Room
 2:30 - 3:30 PMPaul Saffin,
Nottingham University		Horava gravity and strong couplingBob Room
 3:30 - 4:00 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 5:00 PMSilke Weinfurtner,
University of British Columbia		Quantum gravity without Lorentz invarianceBob Room
5:00-6:00PM
Jan Ambjorn, Utrecht University
 CDT and Horava-Lifshitz gravity
 Bob Room

Monday, November 9, 2009

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Laurent Friedel
 9:30-10:30 AMDiego Blas,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne		A "healthy" proposal for non-relativistic quantum gravity
Bob Room
 10:30-11:00 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 11:00AM – 12:00 PMNiayesh Afshordi
Perimeter Institute		Cuscuton and Horava-Lifshitz gravity
Bob Room
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Andrew Tolley
2:00 – 3:00 PMRobert Brandenberger,
McGill University		Background Cosmology and Cosmological Perturbations in Horava-Lifshitz GravityBob Room
 3:00 - 4:00 PMGianluca Calcagni,
Max Planck Institute		Horava-Lifshitz gravity: What's the matter?Bob Room
 4:00 - 4:30 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 4:30-5:30 PMShinji Mukohyama,
IPMU, Tokyo		Cosmological implications of gravity at a Lifshitz pointBob Room

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Rob Leigh
 9:30-10:30 AMSumit Das,
University of Kentucky		Spin Systems and Emergent Gauge Fields at Lifshitz pointsBob Room
 10:30-11:00 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 11:00AM – 12:00 PMMarco Serone,
SISSA		Renormalization group in Lifshitz-type theoriesBob Room
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Petr Horava
 2:00 – 3:00 PMCharles Melby-Thompson,
University of California, Berkeley		Anisotropic Conformal InfinityBob Room
 3:00-4:00 PMTed Jacobson,
University of Maryland		Workshop Summary and DiscussionBob Room
 4:00-4:30 PMCoffee Break Bob Room
 
 
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