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Séminaire Doctorants / Seminar PhD students

« Light propagation in curved spacetime »

Pierre Fleury
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (Paris, France)

This is intended to be a (short) lecture about geometric optics in curved spacetime.
Starting from electromagnetism, I will derive/explain how gravity affects the propagation of light. A substantial part of the presentation shall be dedicated to narrow light beams, and to the connection between theory and observations. In
particular, I will discuss the notion of distance in cosmology.
mercredi 11 février 2015 - 17:00
Salle Entresol Daniel Chalonge, Institut d'Astrophysique
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