Can black holes help reducing your commuting time?

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• Bruno Loureiro Vermandel
• Tuesday 25 October 2016, 20:30-21:00
• Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

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Probably not. However, in this talk, I would venture to convince you that these two concepts have more in common that you might expect. I will introduce the concept of quasi-particles and explain how it provides a framework for understanding many interesting phenomena in physics, but fails to describe others. Next, I will introduce a “recent” development called AdS/CFT or Holographic duality, and dare to claim this might be exactly the right tool to understand systems for which a quasi-particle picture breakdown. The aim will be to introduce the concept and explain, without fancy maths, what black holes might have to do with electrons.

This talk is part of the Caius MCR/SCR research talks series.

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