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Invitation to Black Hole Thermodynamics
Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)
WPC Colloquium
Agathe-Lasch Lecture Hall (University of Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1) and Zoom, 18:30h
Since the work of Bekenstein and Hawking over half a century ago, it has been understood that although classically a black hole is a featureless object that satisfies a “no hair theorem”, quantum mechanically a black hole behaves as a complex many-body system that obeys the laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. I will provide an introduction to some of the old and new ideas in this subject, in which much is understood and much is not understood.
The Wolfgang Pauli Centre is organizing a Masterclass by Edward Witten, the laureate of the 2023 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. The colloquium on Tuesday is part one of the lecture series and will be followed by 6 sessions on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
We invite you to attend the colloquium on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 18:30 in the Agathe-Lasch Lecture Hall at the University of Hamburg. Please note the unusual time and place. Here is a description of how to get there: WPC Colloquium venue. We will also offer a webcast to this colloquium.
Connection details at https://desy.zoom.us/j/99616528733
Meeting ID: 996 1652 8733
Meeting Password: 733220
More information on the Masterclass can be found here: WPC Masterclass
