Save the date: Invitation to the ICTP 2019 Salam Distinguished Lecture Series by Prof. Maldacena on 28, 29 and 30 January 2019 in BLH, ICTP

[ICTP Director]

*_Invitation to the ICTP 2019 Salam Distinguished Lecture Series_*_
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*ICTP is pleased to announce that Professor Juan Maldacena from the 
School of Natural Sciences at IAS, Princeton, USA, will deliver this 
year’s Salam Distinguished Lecture Series on 28, 29 and 30 January 2019 
in the Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP.

Professor Maldacena’s work focuses on quantum gravity, string theory, 
and quantum field theory. He has proposed a relationship between quantum 
gravity and quantum field theories that elucidates various aspects of 
both theories. He is studying this relationship further in order to 
understand the deep connection between black holes and quantum field 
theories, and he is also exploring the connection between string theory 
and cosmology.

There will be three lectures as follows:

*Monday 28 January 2019 at 16.30 hrs**
**Lecture 1:* *"Quantum mechanics and the geometry of spacetime"*
Abstract: Black holes are fascinating objects which pose interesting 
puzzles for quantum physics. Studying these puzzles we are led to 
quantum mechanical models that describe special black holes as seen from 
the outside. Extrapolating from these descriptions we are lead to the 
idea that entanglement can create geometric connections or wormholes. 
Moreover, quantum teleportation can be interpreted as travelling through 
the wormhole.

*Tuesday 29 January 2019 at 16.30 hrs**
**Lecture 2: "Toy models for black holes"*
Abstract: Prof. Maldacena will review the Sachdev Ye Kitaev model and 
describe how it shares some features with nearly extremal black holes. 
He will also describe the dynamics of nearly extremal black holes. He 
will go over different physical phenomena, including chaos, quantum 
teleportation, etc, and their common manifestation in these two systems.

*Wednesday 30 January 2019 at 11.00 hrs**
**Lecture 3: "Toy models for black holes". This will be a more technical 
talk based on lecture 2 above.*

All lectures  will take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall and will be 
livestreamed from the ICTP website: www.ictp.it/livestream
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/The ICTP Salam Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the Kuwait 
Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences./
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More details at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8741/
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/Light refreshments will be served after the talks.

You are all most welcome to attend.

Office of the Director, ICTP

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