Title: Recent Developments in Quantum Cosmology Abstract: After a brief overview of the concepts behind quantum cosmology, with an emphasis on the no-boundary proposal for the very early universe, I will present the Kontsevich-Segal criterion. Kontsevich and Segal have… Read More

Title: Flavour Puzzles and the LHCb Experiment Abstract: Why is there no antimatter in the universe and why does nature provide us with three generations of similar fundamental fermions? These so-called flavour puzzles are among the most intriguing… Read More

Title: Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology Abstract: The covariant formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity dynamics, referred also as Spinfoam, provides currently the most complete formulation for a non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity. It is a formulation of the gravitational path integral as a… Read More

Title: Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology Abstract: The covariant formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity dynamics, referred also as Spinfoam, provides currently the most complete formulation for a non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity. It is a formulation of the gravitational path integral as a… Read More

Title: Frame PB-groupoid of a VB-groupoid Abstract: Principal bundles are essential objects in gauge theories. A basic example of a principal bundle is the frames (or pointwise ordered basis) of a vector bundle on a manifold. Using this… Read More

Title: An Overview of the E11 Program Abstract: We will discuss the claim that the low energy effective action of the theory of strings and branes possesses an E11 Kac-Moody symmetry. We will show that a certain non-linear realization… Read More

Title: New Physics: Where Do We Stand? Abstract: This talk will be a discussion of our long-standing search for new phenomena in High-Energy Physics. We will describe the current situation, a decade after the Higgs discovery, and talk… Read More

Title: Correlations, Representations and the Emergence of Spacetime Abstract: There are reasons to expect that spacetime might change dimension at sufficiently high energies or at least that, at energies as high as the Planck scale, spacetime might emerge from an essentially non-geometric structure. The… Read More

Title: Dark Energy with a Little Help from its Friends (and why it might need somebody) Abstract: I will give a (somewhat biased) overview of the current ideas for Dark Energy in String Theory; the insights they hope… Read More

Title: Green Functions for Black Hole Spacetimes: Wave Propagation, Self-Force, Stability and Quantum Properties Abstract: Field perturbations of black hole spacetimes satisfy a wave equation, for which crucial objects are its classical (e.g., retarded) and quantum (e.g., Feynman)… Read More