JOINT EVENT

THE MS2DISCOVERY INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, LAURIER FACULTY OF SCIENCE
WATERLOO | CANADA
Extended Theories of Gravitation
Lorenzo Fatibene | University of Turin, Italy
We shall introduce Extended Theories of Gravitation which extend standard General Relativity by allowing geometries on spacetime more general than the usual Lorentzian metric structure. Palatini f(R)-theories are considered as an example and application. Their ability to model dark matter and dark energy as the effect of modified dynamics of gravitational field rather than fundamental matter fields and applications to cosmology will be discussed.
Since 2011 Lorenzo Fatibene is full professor of Mathematical Physics at the Department of Mathematics “Giuseppe Peano” of the University of Torino (Italy). He had a degree in Physics (1992) and PhD in Mathematics (1999) and he has been researcher at University of Torino between 1999 and 2011. His research interests are in geometrical methods for field theory, variational calculus and conservation laws in generally covariant and gauge theories. Recently, he is investigating extended theories of gravitation and their applications to astrophysical and cosmological models.
Contact at the MS2Discovery Research Institute: Manuele Santoprete (Host of the speaker, Multidisciplinary Talk, Tectons 3, and others)
Refreshments will be provided
February 28, 2017
4pm | Location: LH3058
The MS2Discovery Seminar Series: www.ms2discovery.wlu.ca/seminar
Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo
This event is hosted by the MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute
http://www.ms2discovery.wlu.ca | Waterloo