Prof.
Hermann Nicolai
(Max Planck Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany.)
07/10/2010, 14:30
Very recent work has revealed unexpected finiteness properties of N=8 supergravity, the maximally extended supersymmetric extension of Einstein's theory in four space-time dimensions. In this talk I will try to review these exciting developments at an introductory level.