A Cosmic Odyssey: Our place in spacetime Benito Juárez-Aubry
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Throughout the ages we have wondered about our place in the universe – from Galileo and Newton’s rigid space and time to Einstein’s warped reality.
Join mathematical physicist Benito Juárez-Aubry of the University of York for a cosmic odyssey as he explores what we understand – and don’t understand – about space and time today. Starting with the insights of Einstein, discover the concepts of spacetime and how our notion of the universe has evolved.
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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