Asymptotic Safety


The following pages are meant as an informal introduction to asymptotic safety and as a guide to the literature.


The Asymptotic Safety FAQs   
These FAQs are now quite out of date.
They may still serve as a general introduction, but they do not reflect the current state of the field.


The situation as of summer 2017 is described in

my book on quantum gravity and asymptotic safety

Another book by Reuter and Saueressig



Asymptotic Safety bibliography 1976-2019
a relatively complete annotated bibliography on the subject, in roughly chronological order, including a list of papers on closely related arguments. *No longer updated*


The AS seminars

 
Some relevant conferences


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Quantum Gravity 2020, Perimeter Institute, July 13 - 17 , 2020

The Benedetti/Platania-Eichhorn-Saueressig meetings
- Quantum Spacetime and the Renormalization Group, CP3, Odense October 12 - 16, 2020
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Quantum Spacetime and the Renormalization Group, Bad Honnef (Germany) June 19 - 22, 2018
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Quantum Spacetime and the Renormalization Group Leiden, February 13-17, 2017

- Probing the Fundamental Nature of Spacetime with the Renormalization Group, NORDITA, Stockholm, March 22 - 28, 2015


Other dedicated meetings 


- Quantum gravity and matter, Heidelberg, September 9-13, 2019
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Quantum Fields - from fundamental concepts to phenomenological questions , MITP Mainz, September 26 - 28, 2018
On a safe road to quantum gravity with matter, Hvar (Croatia), September 11 - 14, 2018
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Asymptotic safety in a dark universe, Perimeter Institute, June 5 -7, 2018

- Shapes of gravity, Radboud University, Nijmegen, March 30 - April 3, 2016
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Renormalization group approaches to quantum gravity Perimeter Institute, April 22-25, 2014

- Asymptotic Safety - 30 Years Later, Perimeter Institute, November 5 – 8, 2009, (videos here)

Phenomenology-oriented meetings
- Second Miniworkshop on Quantum Gravity - The Phenomenology of Quantum Gravity April 28 - 29, 2020
Probing the spacetime fabric: from concepts to phenomenology  Trieste, July 10 - 14, 2017
Experimental search for quantum gravity: the hard facts, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, ON, October 22 -27, 2012

ERG - The general conferences on the ERG and its applications

10th ERG Conference, Kyoto, 7 - 11 September 2020
9th ERG Conference, Paris, July 9 - 13, 2018
8th ERG Conference, Trieste, September 19 - 23, 2016, slides and videos avaliable here
7th ERG Conference Lefkada, Greece, September 22 - 26
6th ERG Conference, Aussois, France, September 2 - 7, 2012
5th ERG Conference, Corfu, Greece, September 12 – 19, 2010
4th ERG Conference, Heidelberg, July 1-6, 2008
3rd ERG Conference, Lefkada, Greece, September 18-22, 2006
2d ERG Conference, Rome, September 18-22, 2000
1st ERG Conference, Faro, Portugal, 10 - 12 september 1998


Aussois
me and Omar Zanusso on Mt Giewont, Zakopane, May 2009 Pedro Machado, Dario Benedetti
and Frank Saueressig, Perimeter Institute, 11/2009
Daniel Litim, Astrid Eichhorn, Alfio Bonanno,  Perimeter Institute, 10/2012 Daniel Litim, myself, Carlo Pagani, Pointe de l'observatoire, Savoie 10/2012


Martin Reuter, myself, Daniele Oriti,
Dario Benedetti, University of Waterloo,
10/2012
Tim Morris, Holger Gies, Christof Wetterich, Paris, July 2018

The book arrived. With Kevin Falls and Nobu Ohta, February 2019




External links


Wikipedia entry on Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity


Scholarpedia entry on Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity

The Quantum Theory of Fields: Effective or Fundamental? A talk by Steven Weinberg at CERN, July 7, 2009


Talk by M. Shaposhnikov at "Why m_H=126 GeV?" http://workshops.ift.uam-csic.es/WMH126/program.html


Gravity at high energy A talk by Steven Weinberg at Strings 2010

 

An article in New Scientist


An article in Quanta magazine by S. Hossenfelder


An article in Spektrum der Wissenschaften by K. Kiefer


Thank you

 

Last update 30/09/2018