Three dimensional gravity, its black holes, conformal symmetry and the remarkable application of the Cardy formula

Seminar series

String Theory Seminar

Date

Mon, 23 Nov 2009

Time

12:00 - 13:00

Location

Speaker

Max Banados

Organisation

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Oxford

We give a review of several aspects of three dimensional gravity which were discovered long ago but remain active and present in the literature up to today.