Inaugural Lecture - Matt Visser

Professor Pat Walsh, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington invites you to attend an Inaugural Professorial Lecture:

Emergent spacetimes - one possible route to quantum gravity?

To be given by Prof Matt Visser, Professor of Mathematics

Is 'quantum gravity' even the right question to be asking? It is increasingly plausible that Einstein's general relativity (like Euler's hydrodynamics), is 'merely' a low-energy approximation to some radically different 'fundamental' theory. Professor Visser will present a non-technical description of what might be going on, and what the prospects are for future progress.

20 March 2007 at 6pm

Hunter Council Chamber,
Level 2 Hunter Building,
Gate 1 or 2, Kelburn Parade,
Wellington