Date:
Wed, 02/03/201611:00-12:30
Location:
Rothberg Hall, The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, Edmond J.Safra Campus.
Lecturer: Prof. Andrew Strominger
Affiliation: Gwill E. York Professor of Physics
Director, Center for the Fundamental Laws
of Nature, Harvard University
Abstract:
In 1972 Jacob Bekenstein argued that a
black hole has an entropy proportional to the
area of its event horizon. Finding the
microscopic origin of this entropy has been
a focal point of physics for the intervening
44 years.
Recent progress on this problem will be
described.
Affiliation: Gwill E. York Professor of Physics
Director, Center for the Fundamental Laws
of Nature, Harvard University
Abstract:
In 1972 Jacob Bekenstein argued that a
black hole has an entropy proportional to the
area of its event horizon. Finding the
microscopic origin of this entropy has been
a focal point of physics for the intervening
44 years.
Recent progress on this problem will be
described.