Colloquium

Speaker: Carlo Rovelli (centre de physique theorique, universite de aix-marseille)

"Loop Quantum Gravity: ideas, results and perspectives"

Time: 15:30

Room: MC 107

Loop Quantum Gravity is a widely studied mathematical description of the quantum properties of spacetime and its quantum dynamics. It reduces to classical General Relativity in a suitable classical limit and is free from ultraviolet divergences. It finds tentative applications in the physics of the early universe and black holes. I will illustrate its mathematical structure, the physical ideas on which it relies, and the current attempts to find empirical support for it.