First four journal clubs 2018

The first four journal clubs of 2018 will take place on:

• Friday, Jan 12th, presented by Giuseppe Policastro on: "Non-local Geometry inside Lifshitz Horizon" by Qi Hu, Sung-Sik Lee, https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07522
• Thursday, Jan 18th, presented by Stefanos Katmadas on asymptotic symmetries and soft theorems  https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05448
• Friday, Feb 9th, presented by Andrea Puhm on "Conformal Basis, Optical Theorem, and the Bulk Point Singularity" by Ho Tat Lam, Shu-Heng Shao https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06138 . Useful reading includes the previous work https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00049 , https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01027 and  https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03917
• Friday, Feb 23rd , presented by Emilian Dudas on :"Proof of the Weak Gravity Conjecture from Black Hole Entropy" by Clifford Cheung, Junyu Liu and Grant Remmen https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08546 with a review of the Weak Gravity Conjecture based on the original work https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0601001

Next two journal clubs before Christmas

The next two journal clubs will take place on:

• Friday, Dec 8th  presented by Severin Luest on: "N=2 Moduli of AdS4 vacua: A fine-print study'' by Constantin Bachas, Massimo Bianchi, Amihay Hanany  https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06722
• Tuesday, Dec 19th, (note unusual day!), presented by Ruben Monten on:   "Universality of Quantum Information in Chaotic CFTs" by Nima Lashkari, Anatoly Dymarsky, Hong Liu https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10458 and their earlier paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00302 . Useful background information is in the original Srednicki papers cond-mat/9403051 and chao-dyn/9511001

First four journal clubs

The first four journal clubs will take place on:

• Thursday, Oct 12th (note unusual day!), presented by Monica Guica on: S. Giombi and E. Perlmutter, ``Double-Trace Flows and the Swampland,''  https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09159
• Friday, Oct 27th, presented by Adam Bzowski on:   S. Dubovsky, V. Gorbenko and M. Mirbabayi, ``Asymptotic Fragility, Near AdS_2 Holography and T\bar{T},'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06604
•  Friday, Nov 17th, presented by Miguel Paulos on: N. Anand, H. Chen, A. L. Fitzpatrick, J. Kaplan and D. Li, ``An Exact Operator That Knows Its Place,'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04246
• Friday, Nov 24th, presented by Brando Bellazzini on: ``Beyond amplitudes' positivity and the space of consistent EFTs'', based on: ``Softness and Amplitudes' Positivity for Spinning Particles'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06111 and ``Beyond Amplitudes' Positivity and the Fate of Massive Gravity'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02539 . Other useful reading: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602178 https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00851

   Note this is going to be a discussion, so ideally you should read the paper ahead of time!

Welcome!

Welcome to the "Quantum Black Holes on the Plateau" journal club!

where : CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique, Salle de Conférence Jean Lascoux (Aile0)

when:   every other Friday at 10:15 a.m., starting Oct. 13th

topics:  recent papers on the quantum structure of black holes, bulk effective field theory, bulk reconstruction (via bootstrap/entanglement), SYK, asymptotic symmetries (BMS)

how it works: one person prepares a presentation, and everyone else reads the paper and prepares for a discussion. Papers can either be chosen from the suggested readings on this website, or the speaker can come up with his/her own paper to read, which should fit with the general topic of the journal club.  

practical:

•  directions to the CPHT can be found at https://www.cpht.polytechnique.fr/?q=fr/node/4
•  we are planning to provide free coffee and croissants at the start of the journal club 
•  internet is provided via eduroam 
•  after the journal club, we can all have lunch at the canteen of the Ecole Polytechnique. The seminar room will be reserved all day for those people who want to spend the rest of the afternoon at the CPHT. 

some suggested reading (more ideas welcome!):

• S. Giombi and E. Perlmutter, ``Double-Trace Flows and the Swampland,''  https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09159
•  S. Dubovsky, V. Gorbenko and M. Mirbabayi, ``Asymptotic Fragility, Near AdS_2 Holography and T\bar{T},'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06604

• S.Hadar and H.S.Reall,``Is there a breakdown of effective field theory at the horizon of an extremal black hole?,'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09668
  

•  S.W. Hawking, M. J. Perry and A. Strominger, ``Superrotation Charge and Supertranslation Hair on Black Holes,'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09175   A. Strominger, ``Black Hole Information Revisited,''https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07143

• N.~Anand, H.~Chen, A.~L.~Fitzpatrick, J.~Kaplan and D.~Li, ``An Exact Operator That Knows Its Place,'' https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04246