Orador: Che-Yu Chen (National Taiwan University). Data, hora e local: 3 de fevereiro de 2016, às 11h30m na sala de reuniões do Departamento de Matemática. Resumo: The Eddington-inspired-Born-Infeld (EiBI) gravity, which is formulated within the Palatini formalism, is characterized by its ability to cure the Big Bang singularity in the very beginning of the Universe.…