Upcoming events
Colloquium: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity and Holography: a perspective from (2+1)-dim gravity
May 2nd 14:00 - 15:00
Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building
Description:
Speaker: Alejandra CASTRO
ABSTRACT:
Gravity is intrinsically different from other physical forces. Gravity is geometry. This raises the fundamental question: how does geometry emerge from a quantum theory? Black holes have inspired revolutionary ideas to attack this question, with one impressive outcome being the holographic principle.
In this talk I will review how we understand quantum gravity for theories defined in a (2+1)-dimensional spacetime; these theories are coined as 3D gravity. 3D gravity has the potential to be an exactly solvable model of quantum gravity, and has also shown to provide novel insight to the fundamental mechanics behind ...