HEP@VUB meetings

Thursday 16 Nov 2017, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Brussels

Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003) (Universe)

External Speaker: Alex Belin (Amsterdam U.)

12:00 → 13:00 Holography and a new perspective on Quantum Gravity in Anti-de Sitter space

Combining Einstein’s theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics in a unified framework of quantum gravity has been a notoriously hard problem and remains one of the main challenges in modern physics. In this talk, I will explain how the AdS/CFT correspondence gives us a new perspective to understand theories of quantum gravity (at least those living in a space with a negative cosmological constant). In particular, holography circumvents the problem surrounding the UV-completion of general relativity. I will discuss general constraints one must place on the microscopic UV-complete theory of quantum gravity in order to recover general relativity at low energies.