The European Research Council today announced the winners of its 2021 Advanced Grants competition and Oxford Mathematician Stuart White was one of four awardees from the University of Oxford for his CSTAR project. Just 14% of applications for grants were successful this year - 253 researchers from across the sciences and humanities received awards out of more than 1,700 proposals. Only nine of those 253 were mathematicians.
Quantum hair and black hole information
Abstract
In this talk, I review some recent results obtained for black holes using
effective field theory methods applied to quantum gravity, in particular the
unique effective action. Black holes are complex thermodynamical objects
that not only have a temperature but also have a pressure. Furthermore, they
have quantum hair which provides a solution to the black hole information
paradox.