Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy
Case 907, Luminy, F-13288 Marseille, EU
Office Number: 423
e-mail:  rovelli@cpt.univ-mrs.fr

Phone +33 (0) 6 14 59 38 85,  +39 348 22 51 583
Fax:    +33 (0) 4 91 26 95 53 

Responsable of the quantum gravity group ("équipe de gravité quantique") du CPT (équipe de gravité quantique webpage). 
(See the group webpage for informations on postdoc and PhD positions in Marseille.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf, updated 2011)

Publications (From the ArXiv archives)

New :

Recent 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.

"Quantum Gravity"

The book  "Quantum Gravity", is a complete introduction to the the problems raised by the attempts to understand quantum spacetime
and to the loop approach to quantum gravity.
It is published by Cambridge University Press.
Here is the CUP catalog webpage of the book.   Here is a list of Errata for the book.  I am grateful for indications of any other mistake.

Reviews of the book can be found on the Amazon.com page of the book (where you can buy the book) and on chronon.org.

"Cos'è il tempo? Cos'è lo spazio?"

Short popular-science booklet:  "Cos'è lo spazio?  Cos'è il tempo?",  published in Italian with Di Renzo editore.    Catalog webpage of the book. 
An English version has been published by  Di Renzo editore.   Catalog webpage of the book.
A French version, largely expanded, has been published by  Bernard Gilson editeur.   Catalog webpage of the book. 
The French version can be here on Amazon.fr, or the site of the FNAC. 

Italiano: Breve testo di divulgazione scientifica:  "Cos'è lo spazio?  Cos'è il tempo?",  pubblicato in italiano da  Di Renzo editorePagina del catalogo online.

Français: Un bref livre de popularization a été publié par  Bernard Gilson editeur.   Page web du catalog de l'editeur. 
Le livre peut être commandé en ligne ici sur Amazon.fr, or sur le site de FNAC. 

"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 : It is published in French: Anaximandre de Milet, ou la naissance de la pensée scienifique, Dunod, 2009.
It can be found here on Amazon.fr.

New : The book will appear soon in English (Westholme Publishing), in Italian (Mondadori), in Portugese (Loyola Publisher) and in Greek (Yannou editions).
The English version can be pre-ordered here on Amazon.com

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 in corso di pubblicazione, presso Mondadori.

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: CD,  Ebook.

Français: Une coversation de deux heures, en fançais, sur l'evolution des notions d'espace et de temps a été enrigestré par l'editeur De Vive Voix,
et publié en CD, aussi bien que comme livre numerique. On peut trouver les deux ici:  CD,  Livre numerique.

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. "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).

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

3. 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.   A comprehensive 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 new course La Naissance de la Science (The birth of Science) that I am giving at the Université de la Médtiérranée.

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.