The journal club comes back!

Dear all, this academic year's journal club will kick off on September 7th, as follows

• on Friday, Sept. 7th, Iosif Bena will present ``To gauge or not to gauge?'' by Juan Maldacena and Alexey Milekhin, https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00428       
• on Friday, Sept. 21st, Emilio Trevisani will present ``Light-ray operators in conformal field theory''  by Petr Kravchuk and David Simmons-Duffin https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00098

Other papers that are up for discussion are:

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.02325.pdf , ``Pure states in the SYK model and nearly-AdS2 gravity'' by Ioanna Kourkoulou and Juan Maldacena                        
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.00491.pdf,  ``Eternal traversable wormhole'' by Juan Maldacena and Xiao-Liang Qi                                                                            
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.06840.pdf , ``A semiclassical ramp in SYK and in gravity'' by Phil Saad, Stephen H. Shenker and Douglas Stanford
   

You are welcome to propose other papers by clicking the comments button below. Also, since the ideal is to have a discussion about these papers,  it would be great if as many people as possible read the papers ahead of time.

Here is some practical information for this year's newcomers

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 suggest a 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.