Adam Bzowski – Holographic Toy-Model for AdS Black Holes

It is believed that black holes exhibit a variety of peculiarities and inconsistencies, e.g., state-dependence, firewalls… I will show how such properties naturally emerge in an effective, low-energy description of simple quantum mechanical systems.

Ruben Monten – Higher spin de Sitter Hilbert space

Almost as old as AdS/CFT is the idea that the physics of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes can also be described holographically. I will give an introduction of what is known to work/fail in these proposals, why this correspondence seems to work well for higher-spin theories and some recent insights that lead to a complete proposal for higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space.

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