Scope
Black holes are among the most exotic objects in the Universe and a crucial testing ground for the interplay between gravity and quantum theory. An improved understanding of such objects is thus expected to be crucial in gaining insight into the (highly sought after) nature of quantum gravity. One of the key aspects in understanding black holes is to understand their thermodynamics, both in the semiclassical (gravity is classical and matter is quantum) and fully quantum senses (gravity itself is quantised). Such study has seen remarkable progress in recent years: the derivation of the Page curve for unitary black hole evaporation in the semiclassical regime, improved understanding of the laws of black hole mechanics for black holes with orbifold horizons and/or defects, and use of localisation techniques (both supersymmetric and equivariant) to compute indices which exactly count black hole microstates.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts across the spectrum of black hole thermodynamics. Invited participants will present results from their recent work, thus giving the audience a summary of the state of the art of the field. Major open questions will be identified and strategies put forward to resolve such puzzles. The key topics of the workshop will include:
- Supersymmetric indices and applications to black hole microstate counting
- Novel exact solutions, such as accelerating black holes, and their thermodynamics
- Semiclassical Einstein equations and holographic duality
- Black hole evaporation and the Page curve
By bringing together experts in complementary aspects of black hole thermodynamics, the workshop will serve as an opportunity for the sharing of different approaches to a common goal. This will facilitate the sharing of techniques used in various aspects of black hole thermodynamics and lead to the development of new collaborations. In addition to the main talks by the invited speakers (16 x 1 hr talks), we plan to accept abstract submission for short talks from students and postdocs (8 x 30 min talks).
Invited Speakers
Gabriel Arenas-Henriquez (Tsinghua University)
Dongsu Bak (University of Seoul)
Jaydeep Kumar Basak (GIST, Gwangju)
Edoardo Colombo (Kyung Hee University)
Heng-Yu Chen (National Taiwan University)
Shaun Hampton (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul)
Junho Hong (Sogang University)
Akihiro Ishibashi (Nagoya University)
Keun-Young Kim (GIST, Gwangju)
Seok Kim (Seoul National University)
Dario Martelli (University of Turin)
Debangshu Mukherjee (POSTECH)
Ioannis Papadimitriou (University of Athens)
Miok Park (IBS, Daejeon)
Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton)
Amitabh Virmani (Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Organizing Committee
Dongsu Bak (University of Seoul)
Euihun Joung (Kyung Hee University)
Nakwoo Kim (Kyung Hee University)
Ioannis Papadimitriou (University of Athens)
Aaron Poole (Kyung Hee University)
Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton)