Spacetime foam and the cosmological constant
Steve Carlip - University of California, Davis
Quantum gravity is concerned with unifying Einstein's general theory of relativity with quantum theory into a single theoretical framework. At Perimeter Institute, researchers are actively pursuing a number of approaches to this problem including loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, asymptotic safety, emergent gravity, string theory, and causal set theory. We are also particularly interested in experimental implications of these different proposals. As the aim is a unification of the laws of physics into a single theory, the search for quantum gravity overlaps with other areas such as cosmology, particle physics and the foundations of quantum theory.
Steve Carlip - University of California, Davis
Venkatesa Chandrasekaran - University of California, Berkeley
Marija Tomašević - University of Amsterdam
Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman - University of Wrocław
Javier Peraza - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Marc Klinger - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maciej Kolanowski - University of California, Santa Barbara
Goncalo Araujo Regado - Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology