Meetings/Workshops on High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields in Italy

Galileo Galilei Institute

Maldacena’s 1997 discovery of gauge/gravity duality promised to provide a complete understanding of quantum effects in gravity, by relating gravitating quantum systems to conventional quantum field theories on fixed backgrounds. Although much has been learned, this initial promise has not been completely fulfilled, due to lingering questions associated with the basic dictionary describing the way observables are mapped between one description and the other. While the dictionary is under good control for observables near the boundary, and also at the level of perturbation theory about a classical bulk spacetime for observables further in, non-perturbative questions critical for a full resolution of the black hole information problem remain to be fully answered. 
 In the last few years, however, a number of developments arising from the application of quantum information theory to AdS/CFT seem to be indicating that it may now be possible to address some of these questions. This GGI workshop brings together experts and young researchers, in order to capitalize on these developments.

Mathematical Physics,    Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Galileo Galilei Institute

The conference is hosted by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania e Sezione di Milano in collaboration with the Milano University and the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana" of Catania University. The COMEX conferences are a continuation of the long series of topical conferences on giant resonances started in 1979.