Event

Talk
"Matrices, black holes and geometry"
Prof. David Berenstein, PhD
20 Jun 2011, 15:00 – 16:00

I will first describe the origins of the gauge field theory/gravity correspondence. I will describe why from a particular point of view the dynamics is described by matrices and why from another point of view the dynamics is described by curved spacetime geometry and its dynamics. I will then describe the black hole information problem and why the description in terms of matrices seems to solve this paradox.

I will spend the rest of the talk talking about how to think of the dynamics of these matrices in a particular example, I will show some simulations of various thermalization processes and I will explain why the objects that can be built this way might behave like black holes. I will also describe various ideas of how the information contained in these matrices can be converted into well defined geometrical objects and describe connections of these ideas to index theory.

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• David Berenstein