Dr
Roberto Percacci
(SISSA, Italy)
05/10/2010, 14:30
After introducing the notion of asymptotic safety I will briefly discuss the existing theoretical evidence for this behavior in the case of gravity, and possible appplications to inflationary cosmology.
Prof.
Y. Jack Ng
(University of North Carolina, USA)
05/10/2010, 15:00
Probed at small scales, spacetime appears to be very complicated - something akin in complexity to a turbulent froth which John Wheeler dubbed spacetime foam. I will give an elementary discussion of my recent work on spacetime foam and the cosmology (dark energy and dark matter) inspired by it.
