Gravity at a Lifshitz Point

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Conference Date: 
Sunday, November 8, 2009 (All day) to Tuesday, November 10, 2009 (All day)

 

The construction of a quantum theory of gravity might require us to give up one or more of the fundamental principles of standard quantum field theory. A recent proposal dispensing with Lorentz invariance builds upon an analogy with condensed matter systems characterized by a Lifshitz point. This proposal also seems to produce a theory which is well behaved in the ultraviolet regime.

 

This workshop intends to bring together researchers working on this or related ideas. The focus will be on the viability of the proposal (compatibility with large scale phenomenology and renormalizabilty) and its relation to other research directions, like causal dynamical triangulations and aether theories.

 

Jan Ambjorn, Utrecht University

Petr Horava, University of California, Berkeley

Paul M. Saffin, University of Nottingham 

Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute / University of Waterloo

Robert Brandenberger, McGill University

Shinji Mukohyama, IPMU, Tokyo

Sumit Das, University of Kentucky

Silke Weinfurtner, University of British Columbia

Gianluca Calcagni, Albert Einstein Institute

Alex Maloney, McGill University

Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland

Charles Melby-Thompson, University of California, Berkeley

Diego Blas, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Marco Serone, SISSA

Herman Verlinde, Princeton

 

Other Participants Attending:

Alfio Bonanno, INAF, Catania

Martin Reuter, Mainz University

Vincent Rivasseau, Université Paris-Sud 11, d'Orsay

Frank Saueressig, CEA, Saclay 

Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute

Christoph Rahmede, University of Sussex

Elisa Manrique, Mainz University

Jack Ng, University of North Carolina

Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute

Pedro Machado, Utrecht University

Vincenzo Branchina, INFN, Catania

 

Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute

Cuscuton and Horava-Lifshitz gravity


Diego Blas, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

A "healthy" proposal for non-relativistic quantum gravity


Robert Brandenberger, McGill University

Background Cosmology and Cosmological Perturbations in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity


Gianluca Calcagni, Max Planck Institute

Horava-Lifshitz gravity: What's the matter?


Sumit Das, Univesity of Kentucky

Spin Systems and Emergent Gauge Fields at Lifshitz points


Petr Horava, UC Berkeley

Quantum Gravity with Anisotropic Scaling


Charles Melby-Thompson, University of California, Berkeley

Anisotropic Conformal Infinity


Shinji Mukohyama, IPMU, Tokyo

Cosmological implications of gravity at a Lifshitz point


Paul Saffin, Nottingham University

Horava gravity and strong coupling


Marco Serone, SISSA

Renormalization group in Lifshitz-type theories


Silke Weinfurtner, University of British Columbia

Quantum gravity without Lorentz invariance