Events at Physics |
Events on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
- Graduate Program Event
- Grad Student lunch/Recess
- Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Place: Bascom Hill (rain location: Birge Hall atrium)
- Abstract: ALL physics graduate students (new and continuing) are welcome! Let us know if you plan to join us – RSVP here.
- Host: Sharon Kahn
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology)
- Sharpening Weak Gravity Bounds with Charged Superradiance
- Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 5280
- Speaker: Lars Aalsma, Arizona State University
- Abstract: A growing body of evidence suggests that to couple an effective theory to quantum gravity it needs to satisfy the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC). Although best understood in flat space, generalizations of the WGC to other spacetimes such as (anti) de Sitter space exist, although this typically leads to undetermined O(1) factors. In this talk, I will give a new perspective on the WGC by relating it to the absence of a black hole instability known as charged superradiance. I will present preliminary results that suggest that this gives a unifying picture of the WGC in flat space, de Sitter and AdS which fixes the O(1) constants.