Events

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

Location: MB-503

We are pleased to announce a special event hosted by the Gravitational Wave Initiative this term - a colloquium by Abhay Ashtekar on 15 November at 10.30am in MB503 (QMUL Maths building, 5th floor seminar room). The talk will be followed by coffee and cake in the 5th floor common room.

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.