Seminari

Quantum field theory of gravity

Name: Quantum field theory of gravity
Start: 2019-10-30T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2019-10-30T17:00:00+01:00
Location: DIFA

by Dr Ibere Kuntz (INFN - Bologna)

Wednesday 30 Oct 2019, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Teorici (DIFA)

Aula Teorici

DIFA

Via Irnerio, 46

Description

Quantum gravity is perhaps one of the most difficult problems in modern physics. In this talk, I will give an overview of the quantum gravity problem, alongside with some historical advances, and discuss two distinct and somewhat conservative approaches to the quantization of the gravitational field: quadratic gravity (proven to be renormalizable by Stelle) and the effective field theory of general relativity (non-renormalizable, but yet predictive).