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SUMMARY:Quantum black holes from gauge/string duality - Toby Wiseman (Impe
 rial College London)
DTSTART:20130529T131500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Anatoly Dymarsky
DESCRIPTION:Gauge/string duality arguably provides our best framework for 
  \ncomputing quantum properties of gravity and black holes from first  \np
 rinciples. In the simplest instances it reformulates the problem of  \nund
 erstanding a quantum gravity black hole in terms of understanding  \ncerta
 in (rather special) gauge theories at finite temperature. I will  \nreview
  this surprising and powerful duality\, and then discuss progress  \nover 
 the last 5 years in both analytic and numerical attempts to  \ndirectly so
 lve such gauge theories with the aim of performing direct  \nquantum gravi
 ty calculations.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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