STARS2013 - 2nd Caribbean Symposium on Cosmology, Gravitation, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics / SMFNS2013 - 3rd International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars

Loop Quantum Gravity

4 May 2013, 14:00

30m

Habana Libre Hotel

Talk STARS2013

Speaker

Olivier Piguet (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil)

Description

The purpose of this talk is to give a short general introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), beginning with some motivations for quantizing General Relativity, listing various attempts and then focusing on the case of LQG.

Presentation materials

Slides

Piguet.pdf