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Quantum Effective Field Theory and

Black Hole Tests of Einstein Gravity

An intensive one-week workshop sponsored by SISSA-IFPU in Miramare, Trieste, Italy

WHEN /

12-16 September, 2022

WHERE /

IFPU
Via Beirut, 2, 34151 Grignano TS

ABOUT THE EVENT /

This workshop will be centred on discussion sessions with a minimal number of presentations.

Local Organizers /

Enrico Barausse, Stefano Liberati

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External Organizers /

Manuel Asorey, Emil Mottola, Ilya L. Shapiro

PRESENTERS

Manuel Asorey (Zaragoza)

Andrei O. Barvinsky (Moscow)

Leron Borsten (Dublin)

Cliff Burgess (McMaster & Perimeter)

Raul Carballo-Rubio (Florida)

Katy Clough (Oxford)

Claudio Corianò (Lecce)

John Donoghue (Amherst)

Michael Duff (London)

Edgardo Franzin (Trieste)

Aron Kovacs (Trieste)

José P. S. Lemos (Lisbon)

Emil Mottola (New Mexico)

Shinji Mukohyama (Kyoto)

Nobuyoshi Ohta (Taoyuan, Taiwan)

Camilo Posada (Opava)

Ilya L. Shapiro (Juiz de Fora)

Alexander Vikman (Prague)

LOCAL PARTICIPANTS

Enrico Barausse

Somdatta Bhattacharya

Miguel Bezares

Mateja Boskovic

Diego Buccio

Lodovico Capuano

Edgardo Franzin

Takeshi Kobayashi

Aron Kovacs

Stefano Liberati

Jacapo Mazza

Oleg Melichev

Giulio Neri

Roberto Percacci

Luca Santoni

Vania Vellucci

Francesco Benini

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PROGRAM

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* Please click on the underlined talk title for the PDF slides *
Monday, September 12

9:30-10:30: Welcome/Registration

10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:00: John Donoghue 
EFT and Schwarzchild

12:00-14:00: Lunch


14:00-15:00: Andrei Barvinsky  Renormalization methods for quantum effective action and recent results of their application in Horava gravity theory

15:00-15:30: Coffee/Snacks

15:30-16:30: Alexander Vikman 
Ghosts without Runaway

16:30-17:30: Discussion
Quantum EFT Corrections to Schwarzschild
(M. Duff, Chair)



Tuesday, September 13

9:30- 10:30: Michael Duff
50 years of the Weyl Anomaly

10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:00: Emil Mottola 
EFT of Gravity and Dynamical Vacuum Energy


12:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-15:00: Manuel Asorey
Trace anomaly and induced action for a metric-scalar background


15:00-15:30: Coffee/Snacks

15:30-16:30: Discussion
The Effective Action of the Conformal Anomaly: A. Barvinsky
(J. Donoghue, Chair)



Wednesday, September 14

9:30-10:30: Shinji Mukohyama 
EFT of black hole perturbations with timelike scalar profile

10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:00: José P. S. Lemos 
Black hole and matter in the canonical ensemble


12:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-15:00: Nobuyoshi Ohta
Quantum Improved Black Holes and Black Hole Thermodynamics

15:00-15:30: Coffee/Snacks

15:30-16:30: Leron Borsten 
From Yang-Mills to Einstein


16:30-17:30: Discussion
Quantum Black Holes,
Gravastars
: E. Mottola  (I. L. Shapiro, Chair)

19:30: Workshop Dinner at La Terrazza
Thursday, September 15

9:30-10:30: Cliff Burgess 
Open EFTs and de Sitter Decoherence


10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:00:
Ilya L. Shapiro 
Effective quantum gravity, cosmological constant and the Standard Model of particle physics


12:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-15:00: Claudio Corianò 

Topological Terms and Conformal Backreaction in 4D Einstein Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

15:00-15:30: Coffee/Snacks

15:30-16:30: Katy Clough 
What can numerical relativity (not) do for you?


16:30-17:30: Open Discussion
(M. Asorey, E. Barausse, co-Chairs)



Friday, September 16

9:30-10:30: Raul Rubio-Caballo Towards VLBI Observations of Black Hole Structure

10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:00: Edgardo Franzin

Phenomenological aspects of black-hole mimickers

12:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-15:00: Camilo Posada

Where is Love? Tidal deformability in the black hole limit


15:00-16:00: Aron Kovacs
On the Cauchy problem in effective theories of gravity


16:00-16:30: Conclusion
Open Questions

17:00: Informal Gathering/Dinner in Miramare
REGISTRATION
Registration

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