Black hole physics from strongly coupled thermal dynamics: May 12 – June 13, 2025

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Organized by:

  • Sera Cremonini ( Lehigh University)
  • Robin Karlsson (CERN)
  • Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria)
  • Hong Liu (MIT)
  • Andrei Parnachev (Trinity College Dublin)

There have been exciting recent advancements in various aspects of holography, black hole physics, and thermal quantum matter. This progress underscores the need for a platform where researchers from these fields can come together to exchange their latest developments, share new insights, and collaborate. The program will cover a range of topics, including probes of black hole singularities, characterizations of quasinormal modes, bootstrap methods for thermal correlators, constraints on transport coefficients and their implications, and effective field theories for hydrodynamics.

This program will also be hosting a workshop: Black holes and strongly coupled thermal dynamics: June 2-6, 2025

WEEK 1: May 12-16, 2025

Monday 5/12/25: 2:00PM – Seminar Room – 313
Title: Meet & Greet

Tuesday 5/13/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Alex Buchel (London/Waterloo)
Title: Instabilities of near-extremal black branes

Wednesday 5/14/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Elliott Gesteau (Caltech)
Title: Von Neumann algebras, Ergodicity, and the emergence of causality

Thursday 5/15/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Anastastios Petkou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Title: On a correspondence between thermal one-point functions and conformal ladder graphs

Friday 5/16/25 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: David Vegh (Queen Mary University of London)
Title: Folded strings and SYK

Week 1 Abstracts

WEEK 2: May 19-23, 2025

Monday 5/19/25: 2:00PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Troels Harmark (Niels Bohr Institute)
Title: Hagedorn temperature in AdS/CFT

Tuesday 5/20/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Jácome (Jay) Armas (University of Amsterdam)
Title: Bringing life into high-energy and back

Wednesday 5/21/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Luca Iliesiu (Berkeley)
Title: The evaporation of charged black holes

Thursday 5/22/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Rodolfo Russo (Queen Mary University of London)
Title: Holographic correlators with 1/2-BPS bound states

Thursday 5/22/25 2:30PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Justin David (Indian Institute of Science)
Title: The large N vector model on $S^1\times S^2$

Week 2 Abstracts

WEEK 3: May 26-30, 2025
*Please note Monday is a holiday and the center will be closed

Tuesday 5/27/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Richard Davison (Heriot-Watt University)
Title: Universal thermalization dynamics in (1+1)d QFTs

Wednesday 5/28/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton)
Title: The AdS/CFT correspondence to all order

Thursday 5/29/25: 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Elli Pomoni (DESY)
Title: Bootstrapping Thermal CFTs

Thursday 5/29/25 2:15PM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Blaise Gouteraux (Ecole Polytechnique,) and Amos Yarom (Technion)
Title: Discussion on Hydrodynamics

Friday 5/30/25 10:45AM – Seminar Room – 313
Speaker: Matthew Dodelson (Harvard)
Title: Ringdown at finite coupling

Week 3 Abstracts