The Wavy Nature of Nature Benito Juarez Aubry
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Did you know scientists describe the Universe first and foremost in terms of waves? The microscopic world can be thought of as a collection of interacting ‘probabilistic’ waves obeying quantum mechanical rules. Even the nature of space and time, unified as ‘spacetime’, is wavy, and this gives rise to gravity.
Will the final description of the Universe tell us that everything's just wavy? Join mathematical physicist Benito Juárez Aubry of the University of York to find out more.
About the speaker
Dr Benito A. Juárez Aubry is a mathematical physicist working at the Department of Mathematics, University of York, UK. He would like to understand how quantum matter and gravity interact and influence each other. This is crucial if we want to solve some very important puzzles in Physics, such as what happens in the very early Universe or how black holes evaporate due to quantum effects. Benito completed his PhD in 2016 at the School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Nottingham, UK. He then moved to his native Mexico, where he held various postdoctoral positions between 2016 and 2024 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, before coming back to the UK in the summer of 2024. Benito holds an EPSRC Fellowship to establish the foundations of a theory called semiclassical gravity, which provides an effective description of how quantum fields affect spacetime and gravitate.
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