Journal clubs until the end of the year

• on Friday, November 29th at 14h15, Piotr Tourkine will present  "Kerr Black Holes as Elementary Particles" by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Yu-tin Huang, Donal O'Connell https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10100
• on Friday,  November 15th Yixuan Li  and  Severin Lüst will discuss the main swampland conjectures, as follows:
  
  - In the first part, Yixuan will give a short presentation of the panel of the different swampland conjectures (centering on the Weak Gravity Conjecture and the Distance Conjecture) that have been stated, and some links between them, using sections 2,3,4 of   Eran Palti's review
  
  
  
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06239
  
  
  
  - In the second half, Severin will present the paper by Grimm, Palti, and Valenzuela,
  
  
  
  http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1802.08264
  
  
  
  which discusses a string theory test of the infinite distance conjecture. A summary of this paper can also be found in section 4.7.1 of Palti's review.