Speaker
Antonia Zipfel
Description
By now, the foundations of loop quantum gravity are well
understood. However, only a very limited number of
predictions have been derived from full LQG due to the
complicated nature of the dynamics. To tackle this problem
it will be inevitable to further develop efficient numerical
methods and construct effective models. In my talk I will
discuss several recent approaches in which numerical methods
play a key role. Amongst others I will discuss the
semi-classical dynamics of cosmological states and symmetry
reduction in the case of spherical symmetry.