Gravitational Thermodynamics and the Quantum Nature of Space Time

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Gravitational Thermodynamics and the Quantum Nature of Space Time

 16 - 20 Jun 2008

ICMS

  • Bernard de Wit, Utrecht University
  • José Figueroa-O'Farrill, University of Edinburgh
  • Joan Simón, University of Edinburgh

Speakers

Gabriel Cardoso, University of Munich - On Non-Holomorphic Corrections to Black Hole Partition Functions

Chong-Sun Chu, Durham University - Time-Dependent AdS/CFT Duality and Null Singularity

Ben Craps, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Quantum Propagation Across Cosmological Singularities

Sumit Das, University of Kentucky - Gauge Gravity Duality and Cosmological Singularities  

Justin David, Indian Institute of Science - On the Partition Function of Dyons in N=2 String Theories

Jan de Boer, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Quantization of Gravitational Solutions

Roberto Emparan, ICREA & Universitat de Barcelona - New Phases of Black Holes in Higher Dimensions

Henriette Elvang, MIT - Generating Functions for Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 SYM and N=8 Supergravity

Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College London - AdS Solutions and Transgression

Veronika Hubeny, Durham University - Universality for Merging Ergosurfaces

Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland - Thermodynamics of Spacetime

Vishnu Jejjala, IHES - Entropy of Near-Extremal Black Holes in AdS_5

Per Kraus, UCLA - Stringy Black Holes in 5D

Finn Larsen, University of Michigan and CERN - Black Holes in Four Dimensions: the Non-BPS Branch

Thomas Levi, New York University - When Worlds Collide

Samir Mathur, Ohio State University - How Information Comes out of a Black Hole

Marcos Mariño, University of Geneva - Topological Strings, Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime

Donald Marolf, University of California - Gauss' Law, Observables, and Black Hole Information

Djordje Minic, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - On the Origin of the Universe and the Dark Energy

Asad Naqvi, Swansea University - Random Field Theory

Horatiu Nastase, Global Edge Institute - A Black Hole Solution of Scalar Field Theory and the RHIC Fireball  

Boris Pioline, LPTHE & LPTENS - Instanton Corrections and Black Hole Partition Functions  

Mukund Rangamani, Durham University - Non-Linear Hydrodynamics from Gravity

Harvey ReallUniversity of Cambridge - Extremal Bl

Kostas Skenderis, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Real-Time Gauge/Gravity Duality

Marika Taylor, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Precision Holography  

 

 

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Supporting Institutions EPSRC, LMS, Edinburgh Mathematical Society and IOP