BLACK HOLES IN STRING THEORY WORKSHOP
October 7-18, 2013

University of Michigan
1085 S. University Ave
#340 West Hall
Ann Arbor MI, 48109

Scientific Program

For a program with talk titles please click here: Blackholesprogram.PDF

For a daily roster with talk times click here: Daily Roster with Talk Times

 

Monday, October 7th
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Samir Mathur
A Pedagogical Introduction to the Black Hole Information Paradox I
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Michael Duff
Tuesday, October 8th
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Samir Mathur
A Pedagogical Introduction to the Black Hole Information Paradox II
1:30 - 2:30 PM
James Sully
A Pedagogical Introduction to Firewalls
Wednesday, October 9th
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Samir Mathur
A Pedagogical Introduction to the Black Hole Information Paradox III
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Geoffrey Compère
Seed for General Rotating Black Holes of N=8 Supergravity
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Wei Song
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Leo Pando Zayas
Four Impressions from the Gauge/String Duality
Thursday, October 10th
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Bartek Czech
A Hole in Holography
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Iosif Bena
Black Hole Microstate Geometries and their Hovering Mechanism
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Juan Maldacena
Entanglement and Geometry
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Andrea Puhm
Non-Extremality from Metastability?
4:00 - 5:00 PM
David Turton
Friday, October 11th
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Joan Simon
Typicality in QM and CFT
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Juan Maldacena
ER=EPR
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Cynthia Keeler
Partition Functions in Even Dimensional AdS via Quasinormal Mode Methods
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Tom Hartman
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Herman Verlinde
Black Hole Information and Topological Entanglement
Saturday, October 12th
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Mirjam Cvetic
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Maria Rodriguez
Black Hole Scattering
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Borun Chowdhury
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Amanda Peet
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Ida Zadeh
Monday, October 14th
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Niels Obers
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Jan de Boer
Entropy in Higher Spin Theories (1st talk)
Tuesday, October 15th
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Niels Obers
Blackfolds: An Effective Worldvolume Theory for Black Branes
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Jan de Boer
The Entropy of a Hole in Spacetime
Wednesday, October 16th
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Ahmed Almheiri
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