Name: Black hole horizons and quantum information
Start: 2013-03-21T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-03-29T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Black hole horizons and quantum information

from Thursday, March 21, 2013 (8:00 AM) to Friday, March 29, 2013 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 18, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013

9:00 AM COST/TH-institute joint session

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

2:00 PM Planck Satellite Data Release (live from ESA HQ)

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
4:30 PM Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory (CERN Colloquium) - Gerard 't Hooft
Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory (CERN Colloquium)
- Gerard 't Hooft
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Friday, March 22, 2013
9:30 AM An Apology for Firewalls - Joseph Polchinski (KITP)
An Apology for Firewalls
- Joseph Polchinski (KITP)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Comments on black hole interiors - Juan Maldacena (IAS Princeton)
Comments on black hole interiors
- Juan Maldacena (IAS Princeton)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
2:00 PM Quantum Mechanics vs. the Equivalence Principle - Raphael Bousso (LBL Berkeley)
Quantum Mechanics vs. the Equivalence Principle
- Raphael Bousso (LBL Berkeley)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
3:00 PM High energy gravitational scattering and black hole quantum hair - Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)
High energy gravitational scattering and black hole quantum hair
- Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Saturday, March 23, 2013
10:00 AM Computational Restrictions on Black Hole Thought Experiments - Daniel Harlow (Princeton U)
Computational Restrictions on Black Hole Thought Experiments
- Daniel Harlow (Princeton U)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:30 AM Tracing is accelerating - Bartlomiej Czech (Amsterdam)
Tracing is accelerating
- Bartlomiej Czech (Amsterdam)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Monday, March 25, 2013
10:00 AM Quantum information transfer from black holes: nonviolent vs. violent nonlocality - Steven Giddings
Quantum information transfer from black holes: nonviolent vs. violent nonlocality
- Steven Giddings
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:30 AM Unitarity without Firewalls - Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Unitarity without Firewalls
- Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
10:00 AM Firewalls in AdS/CFT - Borun Chowdhury (Amsterdam)
Firewalls in AdS/CFT
- Borun Chowdhury (Amsterdam)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:30 AM Complementarity and the Emergence of Classical Worlds - Yasunori Nomura (UC Berkeley)
Complementarity and the Emergence of Classical Worlds
- Yasunori Nomura (UC Berkeley)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
10:00 AM The infalling observer in AdS/CFT and the information paradox - Kyriakos Papadodimas (Groningen)
The infalling observer in AdS/CFT and the information paradox
- Kyriakos Papadodimas (Groningen)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:30 AM The Unruh Effect, the S-matrix and the Absence of Firewalls - Tom Banks (Rutgers and UC Santa Cruz)
The Unruh Effect, the S-matrix and the Absence of Firewalls
- Tom Banks (Rutgers and UC Santa Cruz)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Thursday, March 28, 2013
10:00 AM Black hole dynamics and dual gauge theory - Silverstein Eva (Stanford)
Black hole dynamics and dual gauge theory
- Silverstein Eva (Stanford)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:30 AM Black Hole Complementarity vs. String Theory - Nissan Itzhaki (Tel Aviv)
Black Hole Complementarity vs. String Theory
- Nissan Itzhaki (Tel Aviv)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
2:00 PM The status of the Fuzzball proposal - Nicholas Warner (USC, Los Angeles)
The status of the Fuzzball proposal
- Nicholas Warner (USC, Los Angeles)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Friday, March 29, 2013
10:00 AM Causal wedges and entanglement entropy in AdS/CFT - Veronika Hubeny (Durham)
Causal wedges and entanglement entropy in AdS/CFT
- Veronika Hubeny (Durham)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:30 AM Classical obstacles to reconstructing the near-horizon solution from the S-matrix - Ben Freivogel (Amsterdam)
Classical obstacles to reconstructing the near-horizon solution from the S-matrix
- Ben Freivogel (Amsterdam)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room