Quantum black holes from gauge/string duality

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• Toby Wiseman (Imperial College London)
• Wednesday 29 May 2013, 14:15-15:15
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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Gauge/string duality arguably provides our best framework for computing quantum properties of gravity and black holes from first principles. In the simplest instances it reformulates the problem of understanding a quantum gravity black hole in terms of understanding certain (rather special) gauge theories at finite temperature. I will review this surprising and powerful duality, and then discuss progress over the last 5 years in both analytic and numerical attempts to directly solve such gauge theories with the aim of performing direct quantum gravity calculations.

This talk is part of the Theoretical Physics Colloquium series.

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