Group Seminar

Summer Term 2026

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Winter Term 2025/26

Summer Term 2025

Winter Term 2024/25

Entanglement for an atom of space: the concurrence fill for SU(2)-invariant tensors, Robert Amelung (FAU) Study days, Uni Regensburg

January 29, 2025, 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm    

From Gaussian Reference Fluids to Primordial Perturbations: the Role of Time in Quantum Gravity, Dr. Giulia Maniccia, Sapienza University of Rome

January 22, 2025, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm    

Pathways to QG-phenomenology: holography, overlapping degrees-of-freedom and random matrix Hamiltonians, Dr. Oliver Friedrich (LMU Sternwarte)

January 15, 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm    

An Investigation on shell-crossing Singularities in effective LTB models (master thesis defense), Eric Rullit (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

December 18, 2024, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm    

Regular black hole solutions beyond Bardeen and Hayward solutions (bachelor thesis defense), Alexander Seifert (FAU-Erlangen-Nürnberg)

December 18, 2024, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm    

MSc defence Justin Gassner — CANCELED —

December 18, 2024, 10:30 am - 11:30 am    

Bounce versus long squeeze: on two different outcomes of quantum gravitational collapse (Zoom), Michal Bobula (University of Wroclaw)

December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm    

Gravitationally induced decoherence: from theoretical models to signatures in neutrino oscillations (PhD defense), Max Fahn (FAU and University of Bologna)

December 11, 2024, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm    

An introduction to causal order, Viktoria Kabel (Universität Wien and IQOQI Wien)

November 27, 2024, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm    

Shell-crossing singularities in effective LQG star collapse, Francesco Fazzini (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

November 20, 2024, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm    

Summer Term 2024

Semester kick-off, Loops test-runs

April 24, 2024, 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm    

Winter Term 2023/24

Summer Term 2023

Quantenreferenzsysteme für freie relativistische Teilchen (BSc defense, Vanessa Geier (FAU))

September 29, 2023, 11:00 am - 11:45 am    

A master equation for Maxwell theory coupled to linearised gravity using Ashtekar variables and the relational formalism (Roman Kemper, FAU, Master thesis defense)

July 19, 2023, 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm    

The Dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity in the Cosmological and Semiclassical Sector from the Perspective of Reduced Quantisation and Extended Semiclassical Techniques (David Winnekens, PhD defense)

June 7, 2023, 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm    

Graph coherent states in loop quantum gravity (Mehdi Assanioussi, University of Warsaw)

June 7, 2023, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm    

Quantum-reduced loop gravity from a master constraint (Ilkka Mäkinen, National Centre for Nuclear Physics, Warsaw)

May 31, 2023, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm    

Talk Prof. Muxin Han (Florida Atlantic University)

May 24, 2023, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm    

Reviving Quantum Geometrodynamics: Susanne Schander (Perimeter Institute) and Thorsten Lang

May 17, 2023, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm    

Talk Renata Ferrero (Uni Mainz)

May 10, 2023, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm    

On consistent gauge-fixing conditions in polymerized gravitational systems (Stefan Weigl, FAU) FAU^2 Talk

May 3, 2023, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm    

Complex critical point and effective dynamics of spinfoam quantum gravity (Dongxue Qu, Perimeter Institute) FAU^2 Talk

May 3, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm    

Winter Term 2022/23

An open scattering model in polymerized quantum mechanics (Michael Kobler, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

December 14, 2022, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm    

Round table discussion "women in science" with Prof. Dr. Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt

December 7, 2022, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm    

X-mas party + ILQGS

December 6, 2022, 3:00 pm - 11:00 pm    

Study Days

November 23, 2022, 2:00 pm - 5:45 pm    

A brief review of loop quantum black hole models (Dr. Cong Zhang, FAU)

November 9, 2022, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm    

Semester kick-off

October 19, 2022, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm    

Summer Term 2022

Residual diffeomorphism covariance in loop quantum Kantowski-Sachs (Dr. Jonathan Engle, Florida Atlantic University, USA)

July 6, 2022, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm    

Preparation talks for Loops '22

July 5, 2022, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm    

Spin-Area Inequality in Loop Quantum Gravity (Paul Hartung, FAU)

June 29, 2022, 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm    

Quantum Computing - the perspective of a quantum gravity researcher (Dr. Klaus Liegener, Walther-Meissner-Institute (WMI), Munich)

June 21, 2022, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm    

Super Cartan geometry and loop quantum supergravity (Konstantin Eder, FAU)

June 15, 2022, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm    

A review of constructive algebraic quantum field theory (Gandalf Lechner, FAU)

June 1, 2022, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm    

Fermions in Loop Quantum Gravity and Resolution of the Doubling Problem (Prof. Muxin Han, Florida Atlantic University)

May 18, 2022, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm    

Panel on LQC (Ivan Agullo, Guillermo Mena and Daniele Oriti)

May 17, 2022, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm    

Weil die Zeit eine Richtung besitzt: Wer war Rudolph Clausius, und was haben wir ihm zu verdanken? (Prof. Dr. Meschede, University of Bonn (former DPG president))

May 11, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm    

Panel on Boundary Degrees of Freedom and Celestial Holography (Marc Geiller, Daniele Pranzetti and Wolfgang Wieland)

May 3, 2022, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm    

Semester kick-off-meeting

April 27, 2022, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm