Talks
Public Policy Lecture 2025: Public policy in the age of disruption
In this year's Public Policy Lecture, Professor Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard Kennedy School, will discuss "Public Policy in the Age of Disruption".
Adventures with black holes: past, present and future
Tue 29 October 2024
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
The Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture by Professor Andrew Strominger (Harvard)
In the last decade black holes have come to centre stage in both theoretical and observational science. Theoretically, they were shown a half-century ago by Stephen Hawking and others to obey a precise but still-mysterious set of laws which imply they are paradoxically both the simplest and most complex objects in the Universe. Compelling progress on this paradox has occurred recently. Observationally, they have finally and dramatically been seen in the sky, including at LIGO and the Event Horizon Telescope. Future prospects for progress on both fronts hinge on emergent symmetries occurring near the black holes. An elementary presentation of aspects of these topics and their interplay will be given.
Cost: Free