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.
From May 15 on, the lecture will take place in seminar room 0.01 (new building).

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
	2.2. Path-integral quantization	May 8
	3. Parametrized and relational systems & 3.1. Particle systems & 3.2. Free bosonic string	May 17
	3.3. Parametrized field theories	June 3
	4. Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity	June 6
	5. Quantum geometrodynamics	June 14
	Semiclassical approximation	July 2
	6. Loop Quantum Gravity	July 10
	7. Quantization of black holes	July 17
	8. Quantum Cosmology	July 18

Literature

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