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SUMMARY:Geometry emerging from dynamics
DTSTART:20230227T155500
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Victor Gorbenko\, Laboratory for Theoretical Fundamenta
 l Physics\, EPFL\n15:15   Prof. Lesya Shchutska\n15:55   Prof. Victor 
 Gorbenko\n16:35   Prof. Mike Seidel\n\nI will talk about two rather diff
 erent topics which\, nevertheless\, share a common physical mechanism: geo
 metry\, including space\, time and gravitation\, emerges from constituents
  that live in a different space with a different dimensionality. First top
 ic is confinement in QCD. Confinement has been confirmed experimentally an
 d numerically\, but is still poorly understood theoretically. The core of 
 the phenomenon is formation of geometric objects: confining strings whose 
 worldsheets create two-dimensional surfaces. Second topic is expansion of 
 the Universe\, or cosmology\, in which at the quantum level the spacetime 
 itself should emerge as an approximate description of some fundamental obj
 ects\, yet to be determined.\n\nBio\nVictor Gorbenko was born in Saint Pet
 ersburg\, Russia\, in 1989.\nHe received his degree from Saint Petersburg 
 State University in 2010 and his PhD from New York University in 2015 for 
 his work on confining flux tubes and two-dimensional gravity. After that h
 e was doing research as a postdoc at Stanford University and at the Instit
 ute for Advanced Study in Princeton.\nBeginning February 2022 he is the he
 ad of the Laboratory for Theoretical Fundamental Physics at EPFL.
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