Carlo Rovelli


    
Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy
Case 907, Luminy, F-13288 Marseille, France
Office Number: 423
e-mail:  rovelli.carlo@gmail.com



Founder of the quantum gravity group of the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) of the Aix-Marseille University. 

Curriculum Vitae

Publications (From the ArXiv)



Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity.

This is the video recording of the introductory course to LQG that I have given in Marseille in March 2018.

DropBox Link to course material.




Recently I have been repeatedly asked for copies of two old papers:

- The long original paper with Lee Smolin introducing the Loop representation:  C Rovelli, L Smolin: “Loop space representation for quantum general relativity”, Nuclear Physics B331, 80 (1990)
I have asked permission to Elsevier and I am waiting for an answer.

- The first paper on fermions in LQG: H Morales-Tecotl and C Rovelli: ``Loop space representation of quantum fermions and gravity", Nuclear Physics B 451, 325 (1995)


Technical Books

Intro   
 "Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity", by Francesca Vidotto and myself.  Straightforward introduction to LQG.
CUP site (£ 37.50), Amazon.com site ($ 58.00), Kindle edition ($ 37.49 )


Intro   

 "Quantum Gravity",  Detailed discussion of Quantum Gravity, not up to date as the previous one.
 CUP site (£ 57.00), Amazon.com site ($ 36.98),



Large-Public Books

 
           
The Order of Time   (Now also in French and English).
In depth discussion on the nature of time.




Lezioni English
            version Sept
Seven Brief Lessons of Physics  (Translated in 41 languages)
Brief account of modern physics.
English : Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Penguin), French : Sept brèves leçons de physique (Odile Jacobe), Italian : Sette brevi lezioni di fisica (Adelphi)


 

Copertina     

Reality is not what it seems  
Popular science book on loop quantum gravity.
Italian: La realtà non è come ci appare



And the book I love the most and is the less known:

     

Anaximander
Dedicated to one of the greatest figures of the ancient history of science, with an essay on the nature of science.
French: Anaximandre de Milet (amazon.fr).  English: Anaximander (amazon.com) .  In Italian: Ansssimandro (Ibis.it)
 


Others

Online "introductory lectures on loop quantum gravity", on the Perimeter Institute website.

Here (Pirsa Server)

Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity.



"Anassimandro a Cenci ", in italiano.

Qui c'è il video (Youtube)

Una chiacchierata su Anassimandro, e la scienza, in un luogo magico.



La mia "Lecture Magistralis", dal titolo "Cos'è la scienza?" al Festival della Scienza di Genova, in italiano.

Qui c'è il video (dal sito del festival)

Parlo di Anassimandro, di gravità quantistica, della natura della scienza, e del conflitto fra scienza e religione.



2011 lecture on Loop Quantum Gravity

This is an mp4 video (now it works, previosuly the link was broken) of the lecture I have given at the LOOPS 11 conference in Madrid (May 2011).

I give an overview of the theory, after the momentous developments and the results of the last few years.



La vera storia di come Terra ha compreso se stessa rispecchiandosi nella Luna

Presentazione pubblica alla Basilica di Massenzio, a Roma, per il "Festival delle Letterature" (con musica e immagini).



"Anassimandro di Mileto" 

The book"Anassimandro di Mileto" is about the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander, and is a reflection on the nature of scientific thinking. 

New : The book will appear also in Portugese (Loyola Publisher) and in Greek (Yannou editions).


Italiano: Il libro "Anassimandro di Mileto"parla dell'antico filosofo greco Anassimandro, ed è una riflessione sulla natura del pensiero scientifico.
E' scritto in italiano. 

New : Il libro è pubblicato da Mondadori Università. Può essere ordinato qui, a Ibis.it



CD and livre numerique "Temps et Espace" 

A two hours conversation on the historical evolution of the concepts of time and space has been recorded by the the editor De Vive Voix, and published as a CD, as well as an Ebook.   They are available here: CDEbook.

Français:
Une conversation de deux heures, en français, sur l'évolution des notions d'espace et de temps a été enregistrée par l'editeur
De Vive Voix,
et publiée en CD, aussi bien que comme livre numérique. On peut trouver les deux ici:  CDLivre numerique.



Conférences grand publique online

Français:Conférence grand public, en français,La gravité quantique: quand l'espace et le temps n'existent plus  Cité de la Science, la Villette, cicle "Einstein et sa postérité" , Paris 2005.

Marseille 2005: Loop and Spinfoam conference (technical, in English).  (Also:  List of participants to the conference, with email addresses,   Panel discussion questions, Pictures of the conference.)



LOOP04

Loop and Spinfoam conference webpage,  Marseille 2004.  Also:  List of participants to the conference, with email addresses,
Panel discussion questions, Pictures of the conference.


Video of talk  

 My general talk on Loop Quantum Gravity, at the STRING 08 conference in Geneve, from the CERN website.

Alain Connes tells the story of our meeting
  

  La rencontre avec Alain Connes

Some talks

1.  Marcel Grossmann 2012:   My conference on Black Hole entropy

2. Marcel Grossmann 2012:   My conference on Covariant LQG

3. "Graviton propagator from Loop Quantum Gravity", slides (2.3M) of my tuesday September 26th 2006 telephone-seminar at the ILQGS (International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar).

4. Slides of a talk (at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) giving a general presentation of Loop Quantum Gravity: in pdf (1.1 Mb), and (the original version) keynote (1.3 Mb).

5. On the computation of n-point functions in quantum gravity:  Here is a video (the first 20 seconds are silent, but then the sound appears), and here are the slides. This was at the Loop05 conference in Potsdam.

The center of my research interest is in quantum gravity.   An old review article on loop quantum gravity has appeared on the electronic journal "Living Reviews in Relativity". You can find the article on here.    You can get an (old) short live description of what I do here.


Interview on ARTE

A long interview,  discussing aspects of the scientific research, can be found on the online site of the ARTE television chanel.
 


Course "la Naissance de la Science"

Webpage of the course La Naissance de la Science (The birth of Science) that I give at the Aix-Marseille University.


Images of loop quantum gravity
Here is an image of a three-dimensional model giving an intuitive picture of the "loopy" structure of space predicted by loop quantum gravity at very short scale.     Here is another pretty loop-quantum-gravity image.  It appeared in a 1993 Discover magazine article on loop quantum gravity.







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