Inward Bound - Conference on Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime

Name: Inward Bound - Conference on Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime
Start: 2016-08-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-08-20T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Nordita, Stockholm

17–20 Aug 2016

Nordita, Stockholm

Europe/Stockholm timezone

Venue

Wallenbergsalen, on the Stockholm University Kräftriket campus, Stockholm, Sweden.

Directions to Wallenbergsalen from Nordita and the hotels

Directions to the Museum of Modern Art, for the dinner on riday evening

Scope

This conference is organized in connection with the Nordita program Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime. The conference will provide a forum for discussing recent advances in gravitational theory and its interplay with quantum theory, with a focus on quantum aspects of black holes and the holographic nature of space-time.

International Advisory Committee

Jan de Boer, University of Amsterdam
Charlotte Kristjansen, University of Copenhagen
Bengt Nilsson, Chalmers University
Ashoke Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Institute

Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
Marika Taylor, University of Southampton
Herman Verlinde, Princeton University

Invited Speakers

Jan de Boer, University of Amsterdam
Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Hartman, Cornell University, USA
Gary Horowitz, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis, USA
Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University, USA
David Lowe, Brown University, USA
Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, India

Kyriakos Papododimas, CERN Theory Division, Switzerland
Mukund Rangamani, UC Davis, USA
Eva Silverstein, Stanford University, USA
Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
Marika Taylor, University of Southampton
Gerhard 't Hooft, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Herman Verlinde, Princeton University

Contributed talks

In addition to the invited presentations, there will be a limited number of contributed talks. If you are interested in giving a talk, please mark the corresponding field in the application form and provide a title and abstract in the space provided. You will be notified shortly after the registration deadline whether your talk has been selected.

Slides from talks

Format

There will be three full days of talks followed by a half day on Saturday morning.

Timetable

Registration

If you want to register for the conference, please go to the application form. Due to space restrictions, the total number of participants may have to be limited. Please note that participants attending the Nordita program on Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime during the dates of the conference are automatically registered for participation.

Registration deadline: July 1, 2016

There is no registration fee.

Accommodation

Reduced rates will be available at Arcadia Hotel and BizApartments. In order to get the reduced rate, please mention that you are participating in a Nordita event when making your reservation.

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