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 Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium series.

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