LITP Workshop on Quantum Black Holes

4 Mar 2026, 08:00 → 7 Mar 2026, 18:15 America/Detroit

West Hall 340 (Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan)

Leopoldo Pando Zayas, Vineeth Krishna Talasila (University of Michigan)

Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics (LITP) at the University of Michigan will be organizing a Workshop on Quantum Black Holes from March 4-7, 2026.

Black holes have long been a perfect testing ground for ideas at the intersection of general relativity, quantum field theory, and statistical mechanics. Over the past decade, remarkable progress has refined our understanding of the quantum nature of black holes, including but not limited to:

• Microscopic Understanding of Entropy: Advances in string theory and supersymmetric localization techniques have led to precise counting of microstates for certain black holes, providing a statistical foundation for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula.

• Quantum Corrections: Effective field theory methods are being used to quantify higher-order quantum corrections to black hole spacetimes, modifying thermodynamic properties and Hawking radiation with calculable effects.

• Information Paradox and Resolution Proposals: Novel approaches involving quantum extremal surfaces, the “island formula,” and replica wormholes are generating major breakthroughs in our understanding of how information might escape from evaporating black holes. The use of techniques for quantum information theory is taking central stage in the modern understanding of black holes. 

• Holography and Bulk Reconstruction: Insights from AdS/CFT and related dualities are enabling reconstruction of bulk spacetime from boundary quantum degrees of freedom, with black holes serving as key test cases.

• Non-Equilibrium Processes: New results on the dynamics of black hole formation, evaporation, and quantum chaos are outlining a more detailed physical picture of black holes as quantum many-body systems.

 

The goal of the workshop is to convene leading experts whose research addresses quantum effects in black hole physics, including entropy calculations, information paradox, quantum gravity corrections, and holographic methods.

 

Confirmed Speakers:

Kasia Budzik (Harvard University)

Davide Cassani (INFN Padova)

Chi-Ming Chang (Tsinghua University)

Yiming Chen (Stanford University)

Sunjin Choi (Kavli-IPMU)

Matthew Heydeman (Harvard University)

Shota Komatsu (CERN)

Jonah Kudler-Flam (IAS)

Ji Hoon Lee (ETH Zurich)

Sam Van Leuven (University of Witwatersrand)

Hong Liu (MIT)

Juan Maldacena (IAS)

Dario Martelli (University of Turin)

Emil Martinec (University of Chicago)

Jun Nian (ICTP-AP)

Gustavo J Turiaci (University of Washington)

Christoph Uhlemann (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

 

LITP Workshop Poster.pdf

Wednesday 4 March

09:00 → 10:15 Research Talk

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:15 Gong Show

11:15 → 12:30 Research Talk

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:15 Research Talk

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Research Talk

Thursday 5 March

09:00 → 10:15 Research Talk

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:15 Gong Show

11:15 → 12:30 Research Talk

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:15 Research Talk

15:15 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:15 Research Talk

18:30 → 20:00 Public Talk by Juan Maldacena: The meaning of spacetime - Black holes, wormholes and quantum entanglement

Friday 6 March

09:00 → 10:15 Research Talk

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:15 Gong Show

11:15 → 12:30 Research Talk

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:15 Research Talk

15:15 → 16:30 Research Talk

16:30 → 17:00 Research Talk

17:00 → 18:15 Research Talk

Saturday 7 March

09:00 → 10:15 Research Talk

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:15 Gong Show

11:15 → 12:30 Research Talk

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:15 Research Talk

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Research Talk