Speaker
Matilda Delgado
(MPP & Harvard U.)
Description
Charged black hole solutions, which are ubiquitous in string theory, provide a natural setting for thought experiments probing the ultraviolet (UV) structure of quantum gravity. I will review recent progress in understanding how UV scales emerge in Effective Field Theories of quantum gravity, and explain how the attractor mechanism of charged black holes offers a controlled way to access UV physics at the horizon. I will conclude with comments on how these ideas might extend to more realistic black holes.
Author
Matilda Delgado
(MPP & Harvard U.)