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Martin Lesourd

Martin Lesourd

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative
My research interests are split between mathematics and philosophy, and 
I am working under the guidance of Prof. S-T Yau and Prof. Galison. 
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2018 Sep 04

What Exciting new Discoveries did you make this summer?

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

BHI conference Room: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge (Lunch will be served at 1:00 pm)
Director of the BHI, Avi Loeb will have an informal talk with members of the BHI community on new research and current ideas.
Carina Prunkl

Carina Prunkl

PhD in philosophy from University of Oxford

My current research focuses on the philosophy of black holes and the philosophy of science. I am particularly interested in black hole thermodynamics and...

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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 Michigan...

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
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...

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)

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