Visit and seminar of Marcus Werner
Professor Marcus Werner from Kyoto University visited Gr@v and presented a seminar on Optical Geometry and Constructive Gravity, on September 30th 2019.
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Optical Geometry and Constructive Gravity
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Marcus Werner (IPMU, Japan)
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Venue Maths. Dept. Room Sousa Pinto
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Gravitational lensing provides an important probe of the background geometry.
In this talk, I discuss light propagation on non-Lorentzian backgrounds which
arise in two different contexts. Firstly, we consider optical geometry, which
is a formalism in 3-space for light propagation in Lorentzian spacetimes:
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