Working+groups

During our brainstorm session, a set of topics was identified to be discussed in further detail by those members interested in having informal discussions in addition to the main talks in this programme. The list of topics is provided below. For those where some members volunteer to organise these sessions, their names appear in parenthesis. These discussions leaders are reminded to post in this wiki the schedule of their activities, so that interested members can join in, and to contact Michelle in case there is a need to book a KITP room.

Please edit this page and add your name if you are interested in joining any of these groups.

Other members: Don Marolf, Alex Maloney, Simon Ross, Niels Obers, Joan Simon, Alejandra Castro, Veronika Hubeny, Shlomo Razamat, Arjun Bagchi.
 * HOW GENERAL IS HOLOGRAPHY ? (MUKUND RANGAMANI)**

A tentative plan is meet sometime in the following weeks after a few talks on higher spin holography.

Other members: Don Marolf, Alex Maloney, Joan Simon, Alejandra Castro, Mukund Rangamani, Veronika Hubeny, Ted Jacobson, Arjun Bagchi.
 * QUANTUM FRAMEWORK FOR ETERNAL INFLATION & dS/CFT (STEVE SHENKER, THOMAS HARTMAN, DIONYSIOS ANNINOS)**

Some references

Other members: Don Marolf, Alex Maloney, Simon Ross, Niels Obers, Joan Simon, Mukund Rangamani, Veronika Hubeny, Ted Jacobson, Arjun Bagchi.
 * WHAT IS A QUANTUM MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION OF A FLUCTUATING HORIZON ? (ARON WALL)**

Are causal horizons still well-defined when the metric of spacetime fluctuates? Are the fluctuations of the horizon related to a UV cutoff of the states near (or on) the horizon? Do they shed light on state counting, or information transfer near the horizon? The goal will be to try to answer such questions with the help of perturbative calculations of the size and nature of these fluctuations. I would also like to discuss what quantum gravity might look like on a null "initial data surface".

References for the first presentation.

Other members: Don Marolf, Joan Simon, Mukund Rangamani, Aron Wall, Arjun Bagchi.
 * BULK LOCALITY FROM GAUGE THEORY (Veronika Hubeny & Gilad Lifschytz)**

The first meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 27, 1:45 - 3:15.

If someone is interested in taking responsibility of the topics listed below, please add your name below. Feel free to contact any of the co-ordinators for help getting started or scheduling events.


 * EMERGENCE OF APPROXIMATE LOCAL OBSERVABLES IN QUANTUM GRAVITY**


 * DESCRIPTION OF INFALLING OBSERVERS IN BLACK HOLE PHYSICS**


 * BULK DESCRIPTION OF BLACK HOLE MICROSTATES**


 * INFORMATION TRANSFER ACROSS BLACK HOLE HORIZONS & FAST SCRAMBLING**