5° Verão Quântico
February 17-22, 2013

The Verão Quântico (Quantum Summer) is an international conference/symposium held every two years. State-of-the-art topics in Quantum Field Theory and Cosmology are addressed.

2013 Topics:
  • Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
  • Cosmological Pertubation Theory
  • Quantum Theory on Curved Spaces
  • Topological Defects
  • Black Holes Physics
  • Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Invited Speakers:
  • Jérôme Martin (IAP - France): Probing Inflation with High-Accuracy Astrophysical data
  • Vladimir Lukash (Lebedev Institute, Russia): Modern Cosmology
  • Claus Kiefer (UK, Germany): Quantum Gravity
  • Andrei Zelnikov (UA, Canada): Black Hopes Physics
  • Patrick Peter (IAP, France): Taming Shear Instability in a Regular Bounce
  • Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Chile): Cosmology with Euler-Scalar Coupling: Accelerated Expansion without Dark Energy
  • Ilya Shapiro (UFJF, Brazil): Gravitational Waves and New Hope for Quantum Gravity
  • Olivier Piguet (UFV, Brazil): Loop Quantization and Topological Gravity
  • Eugênio R. Bezerra de Mello (UFPB, Brazil): Fermionic Vacuum Polarization by Flat Boundary in Cosmic String Spacetime
  • Betti Hartmann (JUB, Germany): Detection of Cosmic Strings by Test Particle Motion
  • Fidel Schaposnik (ULP, Argentina): Dualities and Bosonization of Massless Fermions in Three Dimensional Spacetime
  • Nelson Pinto-Neto (CBPF, Brazil): Discrepancies in Quantum Cosmology
  • Benjamin Koch (PUC, Chile): Exact Black Hole Solution for Scale Dependent Gravitational Couplings and the Corresponding Coupling Flow
  • Marc Casals (CPBF, Brazil): Quantum States for Field around Black Holes
  • Giovanni Landi (UT, Italy): The Weyl Algebra of a Hopf Algebra
  • Marco Picco (UPMC, France): Criticality of Long Range Interactions

The Verão Quântico 2013 has a special session in homage to professor Richard Kerner and his 70 years. This session is composed by the following contributions:
  • Richard Kerner (UPMC, France): Physics and Geometry
  • Michel Dubois-Violette (Paris XI, France): N-Complexes, Generalized Homology and Applications
  • Giuseppe Dito (UB, France): Integrable System and Deformation Quantization
  • Pierre Schapira (UD, France): Hyperbolic Systems and Propagation on Causal Manifolds