High Energy Theory - Netta Engelhardt, UC, Santa Barbara - “New Area Law in General Relativity (and beyond)”

Date
Nov 16, 2015, 2:30 pm3:30 pm
Location
Bloomberg Lecture Hall - Institute for Advanced Study

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Event Description
I will present a new area law in General Relativity. This new area law holds on local analogues of event horizons that have an independent thermodynamic significance due to the Bousso bound. I will also discuss a quantum generalization of this more local notion of thermodynamics.