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KOÇ UNIVERSITY PHYSICS SEMINAR
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| Speaker: | Dieter Van den Bleeken |
| Title: | Two uncharted corners of general relativity |
| Date: | February 14, 2020 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Cookie & Tea: | SCI 103, 10:15 |
| Place: | SCI 103 |
| web: | https://physics-seminars.ku.edu.tr/ |
Abstract:
I will discuss two relatively unexplored approximations to general relativity. One deals with a covariant, nonrelativistic expansion that captures strong fields, the other is an adiabatic approximation on the space of vacuagenerated by large diffeomorphisms. What these two approaches have in common is that they consider slow time dynamics and that they are expressible in terms of interesting geometric structures.
Short Bio:
PhD, Leuven University (Belgium) 2004-2008
Postdoc, NHETC Rutgers University (USA) 2009-2011
Postdoc, Bogazici University Physics/Galatasaray University Math 2012
Faculty Member, Bogazici University Physics, since 2013
Visiting Professor, Leuven University ITF, since 2016