Quantum Gravity

14756.2040 | Summer term 2024

Time: Wednesdays, 16:00 - 17:30.
Place: seminar room 0.03 (new theory building).
Begin: April 17, 2024.

The first four lectures will be covered by already available videos, which will be put online on a weekly basis starting April 10. From April 17 on, the course will take place in presence in the above room: the first three weeks (April 17 to May 8) will be Questions and Answers Sessions to the videos; the remaining weeks (from May 15 to July 17) will consist of regular lectures.

Specialized Master course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT

Contents of the lecture

Introduction to several approaches to unify gravity and quantum theory.

Lectures

Mirrors	Section	Release
	0. Overview & 1.Why Quantum Gravity? & 1.1. Quantum theory and the gravitational field	Apr 10
	1.2. Problems of a fundamentally semiclassical theory & 1.3. Approaches to quantum gravity	Apr 17
	2. Covariant approaches to quantum gravity & 2.1. The concept of a graviton	Apr 24

Literature

C. Kiefer, Quantum Gravity: Third Edition (Oxford University Press)
C. Kiefer, Conceptual Problems in Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology, ISRN Mathematical Physics, 2013.