Participants include Roger Penrose, Lionel Mason, Andrew Hodges, Mohab Abou-Zeid, David Skinner, Paul Mansfield, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich, Rutgers Boels, Louise Dolan, V.P. Nair, Arthur Ryman and Tom Hurd.

The question of how to describe a natural ultraviolet cutoff in an expanding space-time is of significance in several respects. First, it concerns the fate of general covariance in the presence of a natural UV cutoff. Second, it concerns the continued generating of degrees of freedom through expansion, which carries with it the possibility of an associated generating of vacuum energy. Finally, through inflation, a natural ultraviolet cutoff may have left observable imprints in the CMB.

Talks and discussions will cover a wide range of subjects within physics and philosophy, including theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum entanglement and non-locality, relativistic causality, quantum measurement problem, probability theory, temporal transience, the mind-body problem, and scientific realism.

Theory CANADA 2 is the second of a series of annual conferences organized by the Division of Theoretical Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists. The conferences are planned to be held annually immediately preceding the CAP Congress, and will be held at the regional institute or center for theoretical physics that is appropriate. The host institute for this year's conference is Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics located in Waterloo, Ontario. Funding for the conference has been solicited from a pan-Canadian source of institutes of theoretical physics.

Senarath (Shanta) de Alwis gave a four lecture mini-course on `Potentials for light moduli in N=1 supergravity and string theory'. In these lectures, Shanta described some of the technical ingredients used in recent constructions of inflation in string theory. The lectures were given at a level appropriate for advanced graduate students.

This course provides an introduction to background independent quantum theories of gravity, with a focus on loop quantum gravity and related approaches. Sessions are available on-line in MediaSite Live format.

Participants include experts on rigorous proofs of the adiabatic theorem, phase transitions in NP-complete problems, and random matrix theory, as well as adiabatic computation.

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