Speaker
Prof.
Mairi Sakellariadou
(King's College London)
Description
I will review almost-commutative manifolds, a light version of noncommutative geometry, proposed by Connes in order to explain the Standard Model of electroweak and strong interactions and eventually unify the Standard Model with Einstein's geometrical theory of gravity. I will briefly discuss the spectral action principle and the choice of the algebra. After a short presentation of the phenomenological successes of the model, I will address cosmological issues by considering the gravitational sector of the theory.
Author
Prof.
Mairi Sakellariadou
(King's College London)
