Training Week

12 Apr, 2026 - 16 Apr, 2026

GGI Lectures on Quantum Black Holes

Abstract

Topics

- Extremal black holes in General Relativity - Harvey Reall (DAMTP Cambridge)
- Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy and index - Ashoke Sen (ICTS Bangalore)
- Supergravity, holography, and equivariant localization - James Sparks (University of Oxford)
- Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes - Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci (University of Washington)

Organizers

Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven)
Davide Cassani (INFN Padova)
Alejandra Castro (DAMTP Cambridge)
Roberto Emparan (ICREA and University of Barcelona)
Luca Iliesiu (UC Berkeley)
Sameer Murthy (KingÂ’s College London)
Ashoke Sen (ICTS Bangalore)

Local organizers

Contact

davide.cassani@pd.infn.it

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Code of Conduct

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Poster session

The participants who would like to present a poster are kindly invited to send an email with the title and a short abstract to alice.bernamonti@unifuit before May 22, specifying for which week of the workshop. Since a limited number of panels is available, the organizers will select the posters shortly after the deadline.

week 3

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
11:30 - 12:30 Tomasevic Newenfeld Collin-Ellerin Caceres
13:00 - 14:30 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Sorce Emparan
  • Elena Caceres: 'On Sparse SYK, wormholes, and chaos"
  • Sean Colin-Ellerin: "Bootstrapping wuantum extremal surfaces
  • Roberto Emparan: "Black tsunamis and naked singularities in AdS'
  • Dominik Neuenfeld: "Bounds on gravitational brane couplings and tomography in AdS3 black hole microstates"
  • Jonathan Sorce: "Bulk causality from boundary entanglement: the connected wedge theorem revisited"
  • Marija Tomasevic: 'ds through holography

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Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
13 Apr, 2026 - 09:30-10:45 Harvey Reall Extremal black holes in General Relativity - Lecture I Lecture
13 Apr, 2026 - 11:15-12:30 James Sparks Supergravity, holography, and equivariant localization - Lecture I Lecture
13 Apr, 2026 - 14:00-15:15 Harvey Reall Extremal black holes in General Relativity - Lecture II Lecture
13 Apr, 2026 - 15:45-17:00 Ashoke Sen Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy and index - Lecture I Lecture
13 Apr, 2026 - 17:15-18:15 Gong Show Discussion
14 Apr, 2026 - 09:30-10:45 Ashoke Sen Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy and index - II Lecture
14 Apr, 2026 - 11:15-12:30 Harvey Reall Extremal black holes in General Relativity - III Lecture
14 Apr, 2026 - 14:00-15:15 James Sparks Supergravity, holography, and equivariant localization -II Lecture
14 Apr, 2026 - 15:45-17:00 Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes - Lecture I Lecture
15 Apr, 2026 - 09:30-10:45 James Sparks Supergravity, holography, and equivariant localization - III Lecture
15 Apr, 2026 - 11:15-12:30 Harvey Reall Extremal black holes in General Relativity - Lecture IV Lecture
15 Apr, 2026 - 14:00-15:15 Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes - Lecture II Lecture
15 Apr, 2026 - 16:00-17:00 Harvey Reall Q&A Discussion
16 Apr, 2026 - 09:30-10:45 Ashoke Sen Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy and index - Lecture III Lecture
16 Apr, 2026 - 11:15-12:30 James Sparks Supergravity, holography, and equivariant localization - Lecture IV Lecture
16 Apr, 2026 - 14:00-15:15 Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes - Lecture III Lecture
16 Apr, 2026 - 16:00-17:00 James Sparks Q&A Discussion
17 Apr, 2026 - 09:30-10:45 Ashoke Sen Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy and index - Lecture IV Lecture
17 Apr, 2026 - 11:15-12:30 Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci Quantum effects in near-extremal black holes - Lecture IV Lecture
17 Apr, 2026 - 14:00-15:00 Ashoke Sen Q&A Discussion
17 Apr, 2026 - 15:30-16:30 Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci Q&A Discussion
Materials