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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


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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 holes, constancy of surface gravity, is not equivalent to the deepest formulation of the… 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)