2017 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2017

Session

M-PLEN Start of Conference | Ouverture du Congrès + Plenary Session | Session plénière - M.Franz, UBC

M-PLEN

29 May 2017, 10:15

Queen's University

Conveners

M-PLEN Start of Conference | Ouverture du Congrès + Plenary Session | Session plénière - M.Franz, UBC

• Graeme Luke (McMaster University)

1891. Formal Opening

Prof. Richard MacKenzie (CAP President)

29/05/2017, 10:15

Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)

1813. From solids with topology to black holes and back

Prof. Marcel Franz (University of British Columbia)

29/05/2017, 10:30

Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénier

An intriguing connection was noticed recently by Kitaev between a simple model of Majorana fermions with random infinite range interactions – the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model – and the horizons of extremal black holes in two-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS2) space. This connection furnishes a rare example of holographic duality between a solvable quantum-mechanical model and Einstein gravity....