Karl Schwarzschild Meeting 2015

Session

Keynote Speaker plenary session 4

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23 Jul 2015, 09:30

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

42. Conformal Bootstrap, Universality and Gravitational Scattering

Prof. Herman Verlinde (Princeton)

23/07/2015, 09:30

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43. Beyond Schwarzschild: Quantum implications for black holes

Prof. Steven Giddings (UC Santa Barbara)

23/07/2015, 11:00

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If nature respects quantum-mechanical principles, this implies significant modification to our semiclassical picture of black holes. The ongoing project to image the black hole at the center of our galaxy offers a possible opportunity to probe such departures from this picture initiated by Schwarzschild.

60. Super-Entropic Black Holes

Robert Mann (University of Waterloo)

23/07/2015, 12:00

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Talk

Black Hole Chemistry is a new perspective on black hole thermodynamics, one that indicates that once vacuum energy is taken into account, black holes behave more like chemical systems. As a consequence mass becomes chemical enthalpy, the notion of a thermodynamic volume appears, and black holes exhibit a broad range of chemical phenomena, including liquid/gas phase transitions similar to a...

70. A menagerie of hairy black holes

Elizabeth Winstanley (The University of Sheffield)

24/07/2015, 11:30

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According to the no-hair conjecture, equilibrium black holes are simple objects, completely determined by global charges which can be measured at infinity. This is the case in Einstein-Maxwell theory due to beautiful uniqueness theorems. However, the no-hair conjecture is not true in general, and there is now a plethora of matter models possessing hairy black hole solutions. In this talk we...