Topological Quantum Field Theory Seminar  

04/03/2015, 15:30 — 16:30 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Marko Vojinovic, Grupo de Fisica Matematica, Univ. Lisboa

Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity (part 1)

This series of lectures is intended to give an elementary introduction to the topic of the canonical quantization of the gravitational field, in the context of the Loop Quantum Gravity approach.

The first lecture will be devoted to the formulation of the problem of quantization of the gravitational field. We will give an overview of perturbative quantization, discuss the issue of nonrenormalizability, and provide a general classification of most prominent approaches to constructing a theory of quantum gravity. One such approach is Loop Quantum Gravity, which will be studied in more detail in subsequent lectures.