String theory model of Black holes

Speaker: Sutapa Samanta

Venue: HSB 210

Date: 24th November 2017

Time: 5:30 PM

Abstract

Black holes are fascinating objects because they pose deep questions about how quantum physics and gravity work together. Classically, black holes can have only zero temperature and they never radiate. Quantum mechanics turns black holes from cold, eternal objects into hot shrinking thermodynamics. Physicists wondered: Is there a microscopic origin for black hole entropy? In this talk we shall try to answer above question from string theoretic point of view.

About the speaker

Sutapa Samanta is a research scholar of Dept of Physics. She is working on string theory under the guidance of Prof. Suresh Govindarajan.