Scanning New Horizons Kick-off meeting

This meeting is the kick-off of the recently awarded Dutch national program `Scanning New Horizons: Emergent Space-Time, Black Holes and Quantum Information' which is based upon a collaboration between the universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht.

Friday February 24, 2017

Het Kasteel, Melkweg 1, 9718 EP, Groningen.
For more information about how to reach the conference site, see the website:
http://www.hetkasteel.com/contact/?lang=en
It is a pleasant 30 minute walk from the Central Station.

Program:

Abstracts:

Jose Barbon:
I will digress on the general question of whether bang/crunch singularities should be associated with “simple” or “complex” quantum states. We show that singularities arising in simple AdS/CFT constructions tend to have small holographic complexity.

Joan Simon:
We will review some of the recent developments and speculations in the relation between quantum information and holography. We shall analyse a subset of these using the physics of LLM.

Alex Belin:
I will discuss conditions that must be imposed on conformal field theories at large N in order to reproduce the universal phase structure of Einstein gravity. I will first review the 2d case and discuss the sparseness condition introduced by Hartman, Keller and Stoica. Then, I will proceed to the generalisation to arbitrary dimensions. I will also introduce orbifold CFTs for d>2 as an example of a vast landscape of CFTs and show that unlike in two dimensions, they don’t universally reproduce the thermal phase structure of gravity.

Kyriakos Papadodimas:
Black holes are related to thermal states in strongly coupled systems. I will present some ideas about the interpretation of the region behind the horizon in statistical mechanics and the classification of non-equilibrium states.