Speaker
Omar Zanusso
Description
Membranes provide exciting physical systems with a strong
interplay between local order and geometric fluctuations.
They are also a non-trivial arena, both theoretical and
experimental, in which the findings of the non-perturbative
renormalization group can be tested, thus enhancing the
confidence of the same applications to quantum gravity. We
will review the distinct universality classes of membranes,
the corresponding order parameters and the effective
long-range interactions, that determine the rich membranes'
phase diagram. Guided by these results, we will attempt to
draw some lesson that can be applied in the context of
quantum gravity.
