PIRSA:15050119

Amanda Peet, University of Toronto and Perimeter Institute

Peet, A. (2015). Amanda Peet, University of Toronto and Perimeter Institute. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15050119

Peet, A.W.. Amanda Peet, University of Toronto and Perimeter Institute. Perimeter Institute, May. 06, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15050119 

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            url = {https://pirsa.org/15050119},
            author = {Peet, A.W.},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Amanda Peet, University of Toronto and Perimeter Institute},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:15050119 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
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A.W. Peet University of Toronto

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Talk Type Public Lectures
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Abstract

String Theory LEGOs for Black Holes

Four decades ago, Stephen Hawking posed a paradox about black holes and quantum theory that still challenges the imaginations of theoretical physicists today. One of the most promising approaches to resolving the "information paradox" (the notion that nothing, not even information itself, survives beyond a black hole's point-of-no-return event horizon) is string theory, a part of modern physics that has wiggled its way into the popular consciousness.

Dr. Amanda Peet, a physicist at the University of Toronto, will describe how the string toolbox allows study of the extreme physics of black holes in new and fruitful ways. Dr. Peet will unpack that toolbox to reveal the versatility of strings and (mem)branes, and will explore the intriguing notion that the world may be a hologram.