Faculty Lunchtime Seminar: Quantum Gravity, Quantum Observables, Wilson Loops, and Geometric Flux (Prof. Reiko Toriumi, OIST)

Title: Quantum Gravity, Quantum Observables, Wilson Loops, and Geometric Flux

Abstract: I will brainstorm and introduce you to the type of problems that I tend to think about in quantum gravity. The title suggests some of the key concepts that I will visit in this talk in order to arrive at the recent interesting result that my collaborators and I discovered, namely, the notion of geometric flux in gravity.