BLH
4 September 2023 to 20 December 2023
Defining a theory of quantum gravity remains one of the most challenging problems at the cutting edge of research in mathematical and theoretical physics. Unlocking this problem implies constructing a quantum field theoretic description of gravity which fully elucidates how a quantum field theory encodes gravitational spacetime background solutions.
Much of the progress in shaping the language and the framework of this problem owes its genesis to a specific subset of problems in quantum gravity, namely those dealing with understanding the organisation of information in black holes.
These problems in turn can be neatly divided into two streams of research, each dealing with a different class of black holes as systems of interest:
These two parallel streams of research in quantum gravity have, in the last decade, experienced unprecedented conceptual and computational leaps, with recent work on the relation of Moonshine, conformal field theories and quantum error corrections codes, as well as attempts in defining computational complexity for black holes, strongly suggesting a powerful connection between these two streams of research into quantum gravity.
The primary objective of this programme is to synergistically bring together mathematicians, mathematical physicists, string theorists and quantum information researchers in these two parallel streams united by their common focus on understanding black hole entropy. The goal is to use powerful emerging computational tools such as machine learning, and cross-pollinating concepts and calculational toolkits across disparate research lines, in order to make decisive advances in our understanding of black holes in quantum gravity.
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2 October 2023 to 6 October 2023
6 November 2023 to 10 November 2023
8 November 2023 to 8 November 2023
27 November 2023 to 1 December 2023
Monday 4th September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Atish Dabholkar Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics; Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies |
Discussion Room | |
Wednesday 6th September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Kyu-Hwan Lee University of Connecticut |
Discussion Room | |
Thursday 7th September 2023 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Kevin Buzzard Imperial College London |
Discussion Room |
Monday 11th September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Jerome Gauntlett Imperial College London |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 13th September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Caner Nazaroglu University of Cologne |
Room 2 | |
Thursday 14th September 2023 | |||
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09:00 to 10:30 |
Johanna Erdmenger Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
Room 2 | |
Friday 15th September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Yang-Hui He London Institute for Mathematical Sciences; University of Oxford; City, University of London |
Room 2 | |
Monday 18th September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Albrecht Klemm Physikalisches Institut Bonn University; Universität Bonn |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 20th September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Larry Rolen Vanderbilt University |
Room 2 | |
Friday 22nd September 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Yang-Hui He London Institute for Mathematical Sciences; University of Oxford |
Room 2 |
Monday 9th October 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Manus Visser University of Cambridge |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 11th October 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Axel Kleinschmidt Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysik |
Room 2 |
Friday 13th October 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Monday 16th October 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Yolanda Lozano Universidad de Oviedo |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 18th October 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Challenger Mishra University of Cambridge |
Room 2 |
Friday 20th October 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Challenger Mishra University of Cambridge |
Room 2 |
Monday 23rd October 2023 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Robert de Mello Koch Huzhou University |
Room 1 | |
Monday 30th October 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Sven Krippendorf Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 1st November 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Thomas Mohaupt University of Liverpool |
Room 2 |
Friday 3rd November 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Gabriel Lopes Cardoso Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa |
Room 2 | |
Wednesday 15th November 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Aron Wall University of Cambridge |
Room 2 |
Monday 20th November 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Monica Kang CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Roberto Emparan Universitat de Barcelona; ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
Room 2 | |
14:30 to 16:00 |
Pawel Caputa University of Warsaw |
Room 2 |
Friday 24th November 2023 | |||
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10:30 to 12:00 |
Suvrat Raju International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Room 2 |
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