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"BLACK HOLE CHEMISTRY"

by Robert Mann (University of Waterloo, Canada)

 

Lecture 1: 16/09/2019, 15:30-17:00, Sala Gris 1, IFT      Lecture slides

Lecture 2: 18/09/2019, 15:30-17:00, Sala Gris 1, IFT      Lecture slides

Lecture 3: 20/09/2019, 11:00-12:30, Sala Gris 1, IFT      Lecture slides

 

Abstract:

Black Holes are amongst the strangest objects in the universe.  They form from the collapse of matter into an object whose gravitational pull is so strong, nothing can escape from them. Yet a black hole also radiates heat like a blackbody, with a temperature equal to its  surface gravity, an entropy equal to its area, and an energy equal to its mass.  I will describe recent work that is transforming our perspective on black hole thermodynamics, onethat indicates black holes behave more like chemical systems. When vacuum energy is taken into

account, mass becomes chemical enthalpy, the notion of a thermodynamic volume appears, and black holes exhibit a broad range of chemical phenomena, including liquid/gas phase transitions similar to a Van der Waals fluid,  triple points similar to that of water, re-entrant phase transitions that appear in gels and heat engines. Under certain conditions they can even behave like superfluid helium! I will outline the foundations of this “black hole chemistry” and highlight both the new phenomena that  have been recently discovered and their implications for our understanding of gravitational physics.

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"INTRODUCTION TO FORM"
Jos Vermaseren

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Lecture 1: 10/02/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Gris 2, IFT

Lecture 2: 12/02/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

Lecture 3: 17/02/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

Lecture 4: 19/02/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

Lecture 5: 24/02/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

Lecture 6: 26/02/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

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The first three lectures give an overview of the possibilities of Form and its underlying philosophy. The last three lectures will address actual calculations and how they were solved with Form. This will include some of the latest developments and features.

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"PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS" 

by Bryan Zaldivar

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Lecture 1: 04/03/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

Lecture 2: 05/03/2020  11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

Lecture 3: 06/03/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Roja, IFT

Lecture 4: 09/03/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Gris 2, IFT

Lecture 2: 11/03/2020, 11:00-13:00, Sala Azul, IFT

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"INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING"

by Bryan Zaldivar

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postponed to the academic course 2020-21​

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"WINDOWS ON QUANTUM GRAVITY"
Enrique Álvarez Vázquez

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postponed to the academic course 2020-21​

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