Schedule

       Date

                                            Topic

Speaker

Notes

21 October

14-16 h
Organization meeting.

xxxx 
Everyone

xxxx
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28 October 

14-16 h
Lorentz symmetry and Lagrangian construction (if needed).

Lagrangian construction in arbitrary coordinate systems (if needed).
Javier Rubio

Javier Rubio
xxxx

xxxx
4 November 

14-16 h
General Relativity in a nutshell (if needed).

Cosmology in a nutshell (if needed).
Javier Rubio

Javier Rubio
xxxx

xxxx
11 November



14-17 h 
Quantization of a scalar field with a time-dependent mass.

Ambiguity of the vacuum state and correlation functions. 

The Schwinger effect.
Arvid Weyrauch

Jordan Krasowski

Robert Ott
Notes 

Notes

Notes
18 November 

14-16 h
Introduction to inflation.

Quantum fields in de Sitter spacetime. 
Dennis Sauter

Aian Khanakhmedov
Notes

Notes
25 November 

14-16 h
Quantum fluctuations during inflation.

Inflationary observables.
Cristian Alexa

Deniz Gündüz
Notes

Notes
2 December 



14-17 h
Decoherence without decoherence. 

Preheating after inflation.

Preheating in the lattice.
David Wellnitz 

Julius Mildenberger

Fabian Przybilla 
Notes 

Notes

Notes
9 December 



14-17 h
Moving mirrors

The Unruh effect.

Hawking radiation.
Ade Adeifeoba

Dominic Chia

Alex Fontana
Notes

Notes

Notes
16 December 

No seminar
xxxx

xxxx
xxxx 

xxxx
xxxx

xxxx
23 December 

No seminar
xxxx

xxxx
xxxx

xxxx
xxxx

xxxx
13 January 

14-16 h
KMS condition and Green functions. 

Euclidean Field Theory: revisiting Unruh, Hawking and de Sitter. 
Martin Pauly

Giada Peron
Notes

Notes
20 January 



14-17 h
The black hole information paradox.

AdS/CFT and information paradox.

Analog gravity.
Jan Schneider

Alejandro Menaya

Ivan Kostyuk
Notes

Notes

Notes
27 January 

14-16 h
Effective action for time-dependent harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics.

Effective action in a external gravitational field.
Christian Alexa

Salvador Ramirez
Notes

Notes
3 February 

14-16 h
The heat kernel computation.

The conformal anomaly.
Pablo Herrero

Igor Bröckel
Notes

Notes
10 February



14-17 h
Why Quantum Gravity? What is a graviton?

The ADM decomposition

The Wheeler-deWitt equation. 
Clemens Vittmann

Viktor Jägersküpper

Matias Hersch
Notes

Notes

Notes