Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Black Hole Thermodynamics: Then and Now
Presented by Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
I will review some of the classic statements about black-hole thermodynamics, which go back to the 1970's, and then I will try to give at least a taste of more modern statements, which depend upon a microscopic or fine-grained notion of quantum entropy
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3:30 pm, Friday, September 24, 2021
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