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Resolving Einstein’s Equations

Faculty Research Seminar

Speaker: Andrew Waldron
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, May 8 2025, 12:10PM

Physics at large scales is described by pseudo—Riemannian geometry. However, there are extreme cosmological situations where a metric description of  nature becomes singular and Einstein’s equations no longer make sense. I will  discuss how these difficulties can be resolved by instead describing nature in  terms of conformal geometries.