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2018 Mar 20

BHI Colloquium, March 20 | "The Motion of Bodies in Spacetime," Jim Weatherall | "Some Philosophers Look at Black Holes" Laura Ruetsche | Gordon Belot

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

BHI Conference Room (211) 20 Garden Street, Cambridge

Jim Weatherhall
University of California, Irvine

Abstract:
I will discuss some recent work on the problem of motion in general relativity, done in collaboration with Bob Geroch (Chicago).  I will introduce a sense in which a collection of bodies -- including the solutions to some hyperbolic system -- could be said to "track" a curve, and then discuss some of the consequences of this idea.  See arXiv:1707.04222 [gr-qc] for details.

Laura Ruetsche
University of Michigan

Gordon Belot
University of...

Read more about BHI Colloquium, March 20 | "The Motion of Bodies in Spacetime," Jim Weatherall | "Some Philosophers Look at Black Holes" Laura Ruetsche | Gordon Belot
2018 Feb 27

BHI Colloquium, February 27 | Angelo Ricarte | Erik Curiel

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

BHI Conference Room (211) 20 Garden Street, Cambridge

Angelo Ricarte
Yale University

​Title:  Modeling the Supermassive Black Hole and Host Galaxy Connection Over Cosmic Time

​Abstract:  Stellar and gas dynamics lead us to believe that a supermassive black hole (SMBH) lurks at the center of every massive galaxy.  Their masses correlate with host...

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2017 Dec 05

BHI Colloquium, December 5 | "Black Holes and Thermodynamics: What Does it Take for a Mere Analogy to Become Something Close to an Identity?," Jos Uffink | "Geo-epistemology During LIGO Site Selection," Tiffany Nichols

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

BHI Conference Room (211) 20 Garden Street, Cambridge


... Read more about BHI Colloquium, December 5 | "Black Holes and Thermodynamics: What Does it Take for a Mere Analogy to Become Something Close to an Identity?," Jos Uffink | "Geo-epistemology During LIGO Site Selection," Tiffany Nichols

2017 Oct 10

BHI Colloquium, October 10 | "The Infinite-Dimensional Symmetries of Black Hole Horizons," Laura Donnay | “Information Loss and Bulk Reconstruction in AdS_3/CFT_2,” Andrew Fitzpatrick | "The History of Images in Black Hole Research," Emilie Skulberg

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

BHI Conference Room (211) 20 Garden Street, Cambridge

... Read more about BHI Colloquium, October 10 | "The Infinite-Dimensional Symmetries of Black Hole Horizons," Laura Donnay | “Information Loss and Bulk Reconstruction in AdS_3/CFT_2,” Andrew Fitzpatrick | "The History of Images in Black Hole Research," Emilie Skulberg

2017 Apr 11

BHI Colloquium: April 11, 2017 | "Methodological Foundations of Analogue Gravity," Radin Dardashti | "Conceptual Aspects of White Holes," Juliusz Doboszewski | "Discretizing Minkowski Spacetime," Thomas Pashby

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

BHI Conference Room (Room 211) 20 Garden Street, 2nd Floor


... Read more about BHI Colloquium: April 11, 2017 | "Methodological Foundations of Analogue Gravity," Radin Dardashti | "Conceptual Aspects of White Holes," Juliusz Doboszewski | "Discretizing Minkowski Spacetime," Thomas Pashby

2017 Feb 07

BHI Colloquium: "How Thermodynamical Are Black Holes?," Erik Curiel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) | "Stellar Dynamics around a Massive Black Hole," Ben Bar-Or (Institute for Advanced Studies)

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

BHI Conference Room (211) 20 Garden Street, Cambridge



Erik Curiel
BHI Fellow and Assistant Professor
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Abstract: 

Serious problems have been raised about the idea that black holes "really are thermodynamical objects", for instance: that the Zeroth Law for black...

Read more about BHI Colloquium: "How Thermodynamical Are Black Holes?," Erik Curiel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) | "Stellar Dynamics around a Massive Black Hole," Ben Bar-Or (Institute for Advanced Studies)