QLS seminar tomorrow morning - A primer in Gravity from Entropy (Ginestra Bianconi)

[HECAP - Margherita Di Giovannantonio]

Dear All,

Please find below the info regarding a QLS seminar that may be 
interesting for some of you.

Kindly note the venue: old SISSA building!

Thank you,
Margherita


Begin forwarded message:

On Thursday, 17 September  at 11h00, Prof. Ginestra Bianconi (Queen Mary 
University, London) will give a seminar titled:

*"A primer in Gravity from Entropy"

*Gravity from Entropy (GfE) is a recently proposed description of 
gravity arising from a statistical mechanics and information theory 
action (the GfE action).
According to this approach gravity is the information captured by the 
interplay between geometry and matter fields.
The GfE equations reduce to Einstein equation in the low energy limit, 
while the describe modified gravity for high energy and large curvatures.
In this talk we will provide a gentle introduction to the topic, 
focusing on the statistical mechanics aspects of the theory, and 
introducing gently the necessary differential geometry elements.
The presentation is likely to be interactive providing a perspective on 
the black hole area law and the role of the second principle of 
thermodynamics in cosmology.

The seminar will take place in the *Common Area*, second floor, old 
SISSA building (Via Beirut, 2)

Indico: https://indico.ictp.it/event/11513