The aim of SCONE is to bring researchers in semiclassical gravity together via a series of online seminars.
Semiclassical gravity aims at understading the semiclassical regime of quantum gravity by allowing for quantum fields to curve spacetime in an 'effective' way through the expectation value of their renormalised stress-energy tensor.
Amongst its most interesting predictions is that black holes should evaporate due to the back-reaction of Hawking radiation on the black hole geometry. This leads to the information loss puzzle, an important open problem in theoretical and mathematical physics.