Tangles to Narnia

ABSTRACT
Recently, a new type of holographic pair has been found, in which quantum gravity theories are dual to random ensembles of quantum mechanical systems in one and two dimensions. This discovery has revived questions on role of wormholes in quantum gravity and its implications in the holography. I will discuss their generalization in the context of three-dimensional gravity theories. Mathematical theory of knots and hyperbolic geometries associated to them plays an important role.

BIO
Hirosi Ooguri is a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, superstring theory, and their interfaces with mathematics. He also made fundamental contributions to topological string theory, 2D conformal field theories, D-branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds, the AdS/CFT correspondence, and properties of supersymmetric gauge theories and their relations to superstring theory. He is Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics and director of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology. He is also the director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics at the University of Tokyo and was the president of the Aspen Center for Physics in Colorado.

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