Katharina Radermacher: Robertson-Walker spacetimes and the Big Bang
Time: Fri 2014-09-12 13.15 - 14.15
Location: Room 3733, Lindstedtsvägen 25, 7th floor, Department of Mathematics, KTH
Participating: Katharina Radermacher, KTH
In the 1920s and 1930s, the mathematicians and physicists Friedman, Lemaître, Robertson and Walker independantely worked on what would later be called the Standard Model of cosmology. It is one of the earliest and easiest examples of spacetimes satisfying Einstein's equation of General Relativity.
The aim of this talk is to present these model universes and show how their mathematical properties lead to the notion of Big Bang.
The aim of this talk is to present these model universes and show how their mathematical properties lead to the notion of Big Bang.