b-Lab Diary of a confinement: Urs Frauenfelder

In these days of confinement, work in the lab has not stopped! We are having talks by videoconference, both by members of the lab and by guests.

If a talk interests you and you wish to listen to attend, or if you have a proposal for these talks, please contact the organizer: eva.miranda@upc.edu.

This talk can be followed directly in the following link: https://stream.meet.google.com/u/1/stream/0cb9fe9a-6248-4b8d-86a4-e12cf4ce16d5

Delayed Potentials and Weber's Electrodynamics

Speaker: Urs Frauenfelder

When: Tuesday 30th of June, at 17:00 - 18:00.

Abstract: This is joint work with Joa Weber.

We first discuss work of Carl Neumann from 1868 about a delayed Coulomb potential and its relation to the electrodynamic potential of Wilhelm Weber. Then we explain how Weber's Electrodynamics can be interpreted as a Hamiltonian system and how it is related to Riemannian and Lorenzian geometry. Finally we quantize the system.

Here you can find the slides used in this talk.