HET seminar: Jay Armas

Speaker: Jay Armas

Title: Conversations on Quantum Gravity: a teaser

Abstract: I will speak moderately loosely and freely about my book “Conversations on Quantum Gravity” published August 26th 2021 in Cambridge University Press. I will provide a kind of catalogue of ideas that people consider useful and important in a theory of quantum gravity and how those ideas relate to different approaches to quantum gravity. I will then focus on specific debates, in particular in Loop Quantum Gravity, in an attempt to highlight some of the shortcomings of given approaches to quantum gravity.