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                   COLOQUIO EN EL IAFE
              Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio
                   2010 - 40 aniversario IAFE
                        CONICET-UBA
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             "The Shape of Space, from Black Holes to the Universe"
                         Jean-Pierre Luminet
                    Laboratory Universe & Theories (LUTH)
                     Observatoire de Paris (France)
                     Miércoles 17 de Noviembre, 15 hs.
                       Edificio IAFE-Ciudad Universitaria

Abstract
The description of the shape of our physical space at various
scales(length scales or energy scales) involves a rich variety of
geometrical models, each depending on the underlying physical theory.
Imaging distorted space and time by gravitational and quantum fields is a
big challenge of modern fundamental physics. I shall discuss such space
representations for describing the shape of space around black holes, next
the global shape of our universe in the framework of cosmic topology, and
eventually give hints on the shape of spacetime at the quantum scale.
Striking movies and color visualizations will be displayed