Quantum Vacuum: Renormalization Group and Anomalies in Cosmology

Classical/Quantum Boundary Conditions at the Beginning/End of Time

25 Sept 2019, 16:10

50m

02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University)

Speaker

Latham Boyle

Description

I will motivate and discuss certain boundary conditions at the beginning and/or end of time, and some of their theoretical and observational consequences (particularly for evaluating the effect of the conformal anomaly in cosmology).