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Workshops & seminars

Holography, Black Holes and Quantum Gravity


Date & time
Monday, October 6, 2014
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Dr. Alex Maloney, McGill University

Cost

Free

Organization

Department of Physics

Contact

Dr. Pablo Bianucci
848-2424 ext 3352

Where

Central Building
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Room Room CC-106

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

The holographic correspondence provides a powerful tool to analyze quantum gravity. Its simplest implementation - the AdS/CFT correspondence - relates theories of quantum gravity with a negative cosmological constant to certain quantum field theories (CFTs) in one less dimension. In many cases this correspondence can be made explicit. For example, the two dimensional Ising model appears to be dual to three dimensional general relativity with a certain values of the cosmological constant. This allows us to address basic questions involving the quantum mechanics of black holes and provides a calculable framework for the computation of the "wave function of the universe" in quantum cosmology.

Dr. Alex Maloney, McGill University

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