Solving the Secrets of Gravity, with Claudia de Rham

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: A theoretical physics professor seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life: as a diver, as a pilot, as an astronaut candidate, and as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity by exploring the limits of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. From Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, we have yet to uncover gravity’s secrets. However, their knowledge allowed this week's speaker/researcher to reimagine the theory of massive gravity to finally rid the “ghosts” of gravity – dark energy.

MEET THE SPEAKER: Dr. Claudia de Rham, Professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, is also a Simons Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and an adjunct professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University. She was the 2020 Simons Investigator in Physics, the 2020 Blavatnik Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Winner of the 2018 Adams Prize for Contributions to Mathematics. Her research has been featured in the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Quanta, and BBC’s “The Naked Scientists,” among other outlets.

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