HET seminar: Eric Bergshoeff

Speaker: Eric Bergshoeff

Title: NEWTON-CARTAN GRAVITY IN ACTION

Abstract: I will give a short review of the frame-independent formulation of Newtonian gravity, called Newton-Cartan Gravity, and explain why there is a renewed interest into non-relativistic gravity in general.  I will discuss, as a particular application,  a recent proposal for an Effective Field Theory describing a massive spin-2 mode (the so-called GMP mode) in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.