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Kaapi with Kuriosity
Speaker
Suvrat Raju (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)
When
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Saturday, 14 January 2023
Where
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru
Resources

Abstract:

Black Holes are enigmatic objects that pepper the Universe around us. Their existence was predicted theoretically by the modern theory of gravity and has been confirmed  by a wide variety of observations. Quantum Mechanics is one of the most successful theories known to humanity. Although it was originally developed to study atoms, it is believed that quantum mechanics underpins the dynamics of all physical systems. However, paradoxes arise when one attempts to apply quantum mechanics to black holes. The most famous of these - called the "information paradox" - has to do with the nature of time. This talk will describe these ideas and paradoxes, and the recent progress that has been made towards their resolution.

About the Speaker:

Suvrat Raju is a theoretical physicist at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He works on string theory, quantum gravity and quantum field theory. He obtained his PhD in 2008 at Harvard University. His work on quantum aspects of black holes has been recognized by the Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2017), the ICTP Prize (2019), and the Nishina-Asia award (2022).