Martin Wood Complex, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Professor Herman Verlinde, Princeton
The public Lamb lecture
The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at Oxford is hosting its second annual series of Willis Lamb Lectures in Theoretical Physics. Willis E. Lamb Jr, Nobel Prize in Physics 1955, was Wykeham Professor at Oxford from 1956-1962.
For this series, we are delighted to welcome Professor Herman Verlinde from Princeton University as our guest lecturer.
Lecture 5-6pm: Q&A 6-6.30pm: Light Buffet Dinner 6:30pm.
Quantum information, chaos, and space-time
Quantum gravity aims to find a description of spacetime and gravity that obeys the rules of quantum mechanics. Advancing this quest requires unraveling some long-standing puzzles, most notably the black hole information paradox. Recent investigations of this question have uncovered deep connections between quantum systems that exhibit maximal chaos and spacetimes with event horizons such as black holes and our expanding universe. In this talk, I review the history of these ideas and describe some recent progress.
As well as the public Lamb lecture, Professor Verlinde will be giving two technical lectures:
- 1pm 5 March 2024, Maths Institute, University of Oxford
- 4pm, 7 March 2024, Department of Physics, University of Oxford