Prof.
Herman Verlinde
(Princeton)
23/07/2015, 09:30
Keynotes
Prof.
Steven Giddings
(UC Santa Barbara)
23/07/2015, 11:00
Keynotes
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.
Robert Mann
(University of Waterloo)
23/07/2015, 12:00
Keynotes
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...
Elizabeth Winstanley
(The University of Sheffield)
24/07/2015, 11:30
Keynotes
Talk
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...
