Quantum, Gravity, and Cosmology Workshop
Department of Physics, Soochow University

Room B013
December 9, Monday
9:30-10:30 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime(1)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15  tea/coffee break
11:15-12:00 Unruh Effect and Braneworld Cosmology
 Feng-Li Lin(National Center of Theoretical Science)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime(2)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
14:30-15:00  Discussion
15:00-15:15  tea/coffee break
15:15-16:30 Unruh-DeWitt type monopole detector
 Shih-Yuin Lin(Academia Sinica)

December 10, Tuesday
9:30-10:30 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime(3)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
10:00-10:30 Discussion
11:00-11:15  tea/coffee break
11:15-12:00 Hamiltonian of General Relativity for Spatially Bounded Regions
 Roh-Suan Tung(Central University)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime(4)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
14:30-15:00  Discussion
15:00-15:15  tea/coffee break
15:15-16:30 Symplectic Hamiltonian Formulation and
Quasilocal Quantities for Gravity
 Chiang-Mei Chen(Taiwan University)

December 11, Wednesday
9:30-10:30 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime(5)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15  tea/coffee break
11:15-12:00 Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Fermions in
Medium(1)
 Da-Shin Lee(Tung Hwa University)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime(6)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
14:30-15:00  Discussion
15:00-15:15  tea/coffee break
15:15-16:30 Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Fermions in
Medium(2)
 Da-Shin Lee(Tung Hwa University)

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December 17, Tuesday
10:00-11:30 Negative Energy and Its Effect in Gravity(1)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
11:30-12:00 Discussion
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Negative Energy and Its Effect in Gravity(2)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
15:00-15:30  tea/coffee break
15:30-16:00  Discussion

December 18, Wednesday
10:00-11:30 Negative Energy and Its Effect in Gravity(3)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
11:30-12:00 Discussion
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Negative Energy and Its Effect in Gravity(4)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)
15:00-15:30  tea/coffee break
15:30-16:00  Discussion

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Related Activities at Academia Sinica
Place: Institue of Physics
December 13, Friday
10:30-12:00 Focusing Vacuum Fluctuations
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)

December 21, Saturday
10:00-11:30 Informal Discussion
 Professor Bei-Lok Hu(University of Maryland)
 Professor L. H. Ford(Tufts University)



Contact persons:
Chung-I Kuo(Soochow University)
TEL: 0920411126, e-mail: cikuo@mail.scu.edu.tw
Chun-Hsien Wu(Tung Hwa University)
TEL: 0913499998, e-mail: chunwu@phys.sinica.edu.tw