The Beijing Normal University (BNU) International Summer School on Quantum Gravity is intended to provide a pedagogical introduction for graduate students and young post-docs to the main fields closely related to loop quantum gravity.
Topics include: Loop quantum gravity, Loop quantum cosmology, Spin foams, Group field theory, Regge calculus
Lecturers:
– Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State Univ, USA)
– Benjamin Bahr (Cambridge Univ, UK)
– John Barrett (Univ of Nottingham, UK)
– Jonathan Engle (Florida Atlantic Univ, USA)
– Thomas Krajewski (Univ of Provence and CPT Marseille, France)
– Jerzy Lewandowski (Univ of Warsaw, Poland)
– Etera Livine (ENS de Lyon, France)
The working language is English. But participation is limited. Students and young post-docs who are interested to attend the school are invited to look up the registration information and register at the website:
http://physics.bnu.edu.cn/summerschool/
The deadline for online application is May 31, 2012.
Organization Committee:
ASHTEKAR Abhay (Penn State)
BANERJEE Kinjal (BNU)
DING You (BJTU)
GAO Sijie (BNU)
HUANG Chaoguang (IHEP, CAS)
LEWANDOWSKI Jerzy (Warsaw)
LIU Wenbiao (BNU)
LU Hong (BNU)
MA Yongge (BNU)
ZHOU Bin (BNU)
Secretaries:
GUO Haibiao (BNU)
HAN Yu (BNU)
WANG Jingbo (BNU)
ZHOU Zhenhua (BNU)
Contact: QGschool[AT]bnu.edu.cn
Yongge Ma
On behalf of the Organization Committee
Dept of Physics
Beijing Normal University
Beijing 100875, CHINA
Tel: +86-10-58809499
Fax: +86-10-62209742
Webpage: http://physics.bnu.edu.cn/application/research/gravity/LQG/eng/research.html
Travel support for U.S. Students and Post-docs to attend the 2nd BNU School on Quantum Gravity
The 2nd Beijing Normal University School on quantum gravity will take place from August 13th to August 18th, 2012. Although the hosts of the school will be able to partially cover local costs of attendees, they will not be able to cover all costs. Because of this, we have applied for, and will likely receive, NSF funds to provide partial travel support to a number of U.S. students and beginning post-docs to attend this school. We expect to be able to cover at least half the plane fare of the selected applicants.
Interested young researchers should send a CV, list of publications and, if a student, a recommendation letter from your advisor, to jonathan.engle[AT]fau.edu, no later than Friday, May 18th, 2012. In the email, please also indicate whether you have access to other funding sources, and, if so, which ones. The final selection will be made by a committee consisting of scientists from three different universities.
The organizers of the BNU school have graciously agreed to accept the selected participants. Nevertheless, it is still necessary for students to register and request partial support for local costs directly at the main school website http://physics.bnu.edu.cn/summerschool, in addition to applying for this NSF support.