Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the Week of August 27th through September 3rd, 2023
Monday, August 28th, 2023
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
- 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.
Thursday, August 31st, 2023
- No events scheduled
Friday, September 1st, 2023
- No events scheduled