High Energy Theory Seminar

New Area Law in General Relativity (and beyond)

I will present a new area law in General Relativity. This new area law holds on local analogues of event horizons that have an independent thermodynamic significance due to the Bousso bound. I will also discuss a quantum generalization of this more local notion of thermodynamics.

Date & Time

November 16, 2015 | 2:30pm – 4:00pm

Location

Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Speakers

Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Affiliation

University of California, Santa Barbara

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