Seminar series
Date
Mon, 20 Oct 2008
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Ali Chamseddine
Organisation
American University of Beirut
Abstract: Noncommutative geometry has been slowly emerging as a new paradigm of geometry which starts from quantum mechanics. One of its key features is that the new geometry is spectral, in agreement with the physical way of measuring distances which is also spectral. I present an overview on the study of the quantum nature of space-time using the tools of noncommutative geometry. In particular we examine the suitability of using the spectral action functional to describe the dynamics of a geometrical theory.