After a long pause due, again, to covid, the journal club "Quantum black holes on the plateau" will restart in a brand new, hybrid mode
where: IPhT, CEA Saclay and on-line
when: every other Friday at 2:15 p.m.
topics: recent papers related to the quantum structure of black holes, bulk EFT, Page curves, etc.
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 IPhT can be found here
- the room will either be amphi Bloch or salle Itzykson, both on the IPhT ground floor, depending on covid-related restrictions
- wearing a mask is compulsory, except for the speaker
- internet is provided via eduroam or orme-enregistrement/access
- outside participants who would like to spend the entire day at the IPhT can contact Monica for lunch arrangements
- the videoconferencing link and password for the on-line participants will be sent by e-mail to those registered to the JC mailing list
- the JC will not be recorded
The first three journal clubs are:
- on Tuesday, Nov 23rd, at 10 a.m. (note unusual date & time!) in Amphi Bloch, Nicolas Kovensky will present "Asymptotically Free AdS3/CFT2" by Balthasar, Giveon, Kutasov and Martinec, https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00065 and "AdS3's with and without BTZ's" by Martinec https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11716
- on Friday, April 8th, at 10:00 a.m. in salle Itzykson, Ioannis Tsiares will present "Transcending the ensemble: baby universes, spacetime wormholes, and the order and disorder of black hole information" by Marolf and Maxfield https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08950.
Additional background reading: "Black holes as red herrings: Topological fluctuations and the loss of quantum coherence" by Coleman and "Baby universe, third quantization and the cosmological constant" by Giddings and Strominger - on Friday, April 15th, at 10:00 a.m. in salle Itzykson, Ioannis Tsiares will continue his presentation of "Transcending the ensemble: baby universes, spacetime wormholes, and the order and disorder of black hole information" by Marolf and Maxfield https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08950.
- on Friday, April 22nd, at 10:00 a.m., in salle Itzykson, Eric Perlmutter will present "Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFTs" by Chandra,Collier, Hartman and Maloney https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06511
the JC on “Massive Islands” by Geng and Karch, arXiv:2006.02438 and “Inconsistency of Islands in Theories with Long-Range Gravity” by Geng, Karch, Perez-Pardavilla, Raju, Randall, Riojas, Shashi arXiv:2107.03390 will be rescheduled
Additional background reading: "The CFT/AdS correspondence, massive gravitons and a connectivity index conjecture” by Aharony, Clark, Karch, hep-th/0608089 and “The page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry” by Almheiri, Mahajan, Maldacena, Zhao, arXiv:1908.10996
The following JC will be rescheduled next year: "Stringy ER=EPR" by Jafferis and Schneider, https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07233
Background reading: "Eternal black holes in AdS" by J. Maldacena, https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106112
some additional suggested reading (more ideas welcome!):
"Chaotic scattering of highly excited strings", by Gross and Rosenhaus,
arXiv:2103.15301
