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The IKKT matrix model as a possible basis for (quantum) gravity & cosmology

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

13 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The IKKT matrix model as a possible basis for (quantum) gravity & cosmology

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

15 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


3+1-dimensional quantum gravity on quantum space-time from the IKKT model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

19 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Teilnahme mit Vortrag

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

23 Jan 202327 Jan 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gravity as a quantum effect on quantum space-time

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

13 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Matrix Models, Quantum Spaces, and Gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

7 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


"The IIB matrix model, quantum spacetime and emergent higher-spin gravity"

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

7 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Leben wir in der Matrix ?

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

12 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


”Gravity as a quantum effect on quantum space-time

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

30 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gravity as a quantum effect on quantum space-time

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

20 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


(Higher-spin) gravity as a quantum effect on quantum space-time

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

25 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Higher-spin gauge theory and gravity from matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

13 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Higher-spin-type gravity and torsion emerging on a quantized cosmological space-time in matrix models"

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

26 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Higher-spin gauge theory, matrix models & the quantum structure of space-time

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

21 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Humboldt Kolleg "Frontiers in Physics: From the Electroweak to the Planck Scales"

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

15 Sep 201919 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gravity and a Linearized Schwarzschild Solution in the IKKT Matrix Model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

5 Sep 20197 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


On Matrix models, Quantum geometry, and (higher-spin) gravity

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

10 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Quantum space-time, higher spin and gravity from the IKKT Matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

25 Feb 201927 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Quantum space-time, higher spin and gravity from the IKKT Matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

11 Feb 201915 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fuzzy spaces and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

15 Jan 201918 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Higher spin gauge theory on fuzzy spacetimes from the IKKT Matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

3 Dec 20187 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From equivariant bundles to quantized space-times and higer-spin gauge theory

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

29 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Quantized cosmological spacetimes and higher spin in the IKKT model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

4 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Quantized cosmological spacetimes and higher spin in the IKKT model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

30 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Quantized cosmological spacetimes and higher spin in the IKKT model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

24 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Quantized cosmological spacetimes and higher spin the IKKT model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

10 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From Matrix models to quantized cosmological space-times (and gravity?)

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

18 Jun 201822 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Matrix models and the Quantum structure of space, time and matter

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

17 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From matrix models to quantized geometry, gravity and cosmology

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

15 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fuzzy spaces and space-times from Yang-Mills matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

2 Nov 20173 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Emergent gravity and higher spin on covariant quantum spaces

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

22 Sep 201728 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Covariant quantum spaces and higher-spin theory in the IKKT matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

4 Sep 20176 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Higher-spin theory and gravity from fuzzy 4-spheres

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

9 Jun 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Covariant quantum spaces and higher spin from matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 201710 Jun 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Covariant Quantum Spaces, the IKKT Model and Gravity

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

20 Mar 201723 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Covariant Quantum Spaces, the IKKT Model and Gravity

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

23 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Matrix Models, covariant quantum spaces and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

6 Dec 20169 Dec 2016

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Covariant quantum spaces and emergent gravity in the IKKT matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

12 Oct 2016

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String states, loops and effective action in NC field theory and matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

26 Sep 20161 Oct 2016

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Fuzzy spaces and applications

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

21 Aug 201628 Aug 2016

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Emergent 4D gravity on covariant quantum spaces in the IKKT model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

4 Jul 20167 Jul 2016

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The fuzzy four-sphere and its stabilization by vacuum energy

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

6 Feb 201612 Feb 2016

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Die moderne Physik nach Einstein oder: Rätsel zwischen Relativitätstheorie und Quantentheorie

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

27 Oct 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The issue of Quantum Space-Time

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

21 Sep 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Chiral low-energy physics from squashed brane solutions in deformed N=4 Super-Yang-Mills

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

1 Sep 20154 Sep 2015

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Chiral low-energy physics from squashed branes in deformed N=4 SYM

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

23 Aug 201529 Aug 2015

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Squashed fuzzy extra dimensions from coadjoint orbits in N=4 SYM with large rank

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

1 Jun 20155 Jun 2015

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Self-intersecting fuzzy extra dimensions and chiral gauge theory in N=4 super-Yang-Mills

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

16 Jan 2015

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Self-intersecting fuzzy extra dimensions and chiral gauge theory in N=4 super-Yang-Mills

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

12 Jan 2015

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Spinning squashed extra dimensions, gauge theory and hierarchy in N=4 super-Yang-Mills

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

27 Nov 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


From matrix models to the theory of fundamental interactions

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

18 Jun 2014

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An Extended Standard model and its Higgs geometry from the matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

14 May 2014

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An extended standard model and ist Higgs geometry from the matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

18 Feb 201421 Feb 2014

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An Extended Standard model and its Higgs geometry from the matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

14 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Emergent space-time and gravity in the IIB model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

10 Jun 2013

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Compactified extra dimensions in matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

25 May 2013

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Towards brane-worlds in Yang-Mills matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

27 Feb 2013

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Matrix models, noncommutative gauge theory, and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

18 Jul 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Matrix models, noncommutative gauge theory and emergent geometry

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

14 Jun 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Matrix models, noncommutative gauge theory and emergent geometry

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

14 Jun 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


From matrix models to gauge theory and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

17 May 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Von Matrix-Modellen zur Theorie der fundamentalen Wechselwirkungen

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

13 May 2011

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Yang-Mills matrix models, gauge theory, and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

25 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Yang-Mills matrix models, gauge theory, and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

25 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Non-commutative geometry and matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

4 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Yang-Mills Matrix Models, Noncommutative Gauge Theory, and Gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

2 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Yang-Mills Matrix Models, Noncommutative Gauge Theory, and Gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

28 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Branes, N=4 gauge theory and gravity from the IIB matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

23 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Branes, N=4 gauge theory and gravity from the IIB matrix model

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

22 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Emergent (noncommutative) geometry and gravity from Yang-Mills matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

29 Sep 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Matrix models, non-commutative geometry, and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

13 Sep 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Emergent gravity from Yang-Mills matrix models

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

11 Sep 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Reconciling Cosmology with Quantum Mechanics through Emergent Gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

6 Jul 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dynamical noncommutative spaces, matrix models and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Speaker)

29 Sep 2008

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Dynamical quantum spaces, matrix models and gravity

Harold Steinacker (Invited speaker)

30 Jun 2008

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