Events

Date: 15 November 2024   Time: 10:30 - 12:00

Location: MB503

Prof. Ashtekar is an Indian theoretical physicist who created Ashtekar variables and is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology. He is an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (now Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos) and Center for Fundamental Theory at Pennsylvania State University.