Abhay Ashtekar

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Pennsylvania State University
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Overview

Abhay Ashtekar is the Eberly Professor of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. As the creator of Ashtekar variables, he is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity. He has written a number of descriptions of loop quantum gravity that are accessible to non-physicists.