Aspects of Emergence of Gravity and Geometry

by Dr Florian Kühnel (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Thursday 23 Oct 2014, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Teorici (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia)

I will give an introduction to recent ideas to understand geometry, on the quantum level, as Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitons. Starting form black holes, I will show how various known characteristics elegantly emerge, and which novel and distinct features are expected. Then I turn to cosmology, thereby bridging to analogue gravity where I will present a model with naturally suppressed cosmological constant.