Date:	Thu, October 17, 2019
Time:	13:00
Place:	Research III Seminar Room

Abstract: Symplectic structures with an internal integer grading on a manifold M can accommodate a metric on TM. This opens up the possibility to construct gravitational theories of very general kind starting with a graded Poisson algebra. In this talk we will review some aspects of graded geometry, hint at relations with Courant algebroids and mention how it can be applied to yield a Hilbert-Einstein-like action functional.