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HGTQGr, Lisbon 2011
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Workshop Schedule
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Thursday, 10th FebFriday, 11th FebSaturday, 12th FebSunday, 13th Feb
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9.00-9.30Registration
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9.30-10.05Paolo Aschieri - Noncommutative GerbesJohn Barrett - Diagrams for Gray CategoriesJeffrey Morton - Extended TQFT from (Higher) Gauge Theories 10.00-10.45Laurent Freidel - The Principle of Relative Locality
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10.05-10.40Konrad Waldorf - Abelian gauge theories on loop spaces and their regressionBjörn Gohla - A Mapping Space for Gray-CategoriesThomas Nikolaus - Equivariant Dijkgraaf-Witten theory10.45-11.20Aristide Baratin - 2-Group Representations for State Sums
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CoffeeCoffee
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11.20-11.55Derek Wise - 2-group representations and geometryJoão Martins - 3D HolonomyJamie Vicary - 123 TQFTs 11.50-12-50Final Discussion
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11.55-12.30Thomas Krajewski - Quasi-Quantum Groups from StringsMauro Spera - Remarks on n-gerbes and transgressionsJohn Huerta - Higher Supergroups for String and M-theory
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LunchLunch
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14-14.45Urs Schreiber - Infinity-connections and their Chern-Simons functionalsBianca Dittrich - Dynamics and Diffeomorphism Symmetry in Discrete Quantum GravityAleksandar Miković - Finiteness and semi-classical limit of EPRL-FK spin foam modelsExcursion
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14.45-15.20Rafael Diaz - Homological Quantum Field TheoryIgor Baković - Stacks, Gerbes and Étale GroupoidsHisham Sati - TBA
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15.20-15.55Alexander Kahle - T-duality and Differential K-TheoryBranislav Jurčo - Nonabelian bundle 2-gerbesTim Porter - Interpretations of HQFTs
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Coffee
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16.30-18.15Benjamin Bahr - Spin foam operators (ends 17:05); Tim Porter - Homotopy Quantum Field Theories and the crossed menagerie (starts 17:10)Hisham Sati - Higher spin structures and quantum gravityLaurent Freidel - Aspects of the new spin foam models for quantum gravity
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18.15-19.15DiscussionDiscussionDiscussion
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Conference Dinner 20:00
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