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Don Marolf: Shock waves inside black holes; The role of gravitational constraints in holography. Joan Simon: Does dS have a dual description? Ted Jacobson: Why I think I changed my mind about the black hole info question; renormalization and black hole entropy Alex Maloney: Why is GR dual to the Ising model? How to compute the wavefunction of the universe David Gross: anything Steve Giddings: unitary black hole evolution Joe Polchinski: Schrodinger's cat behind the horizon. Scale invariant quantum field theories without conformal invariance. Information-free horizons (from S. Mathur). Why I am confused about black hole complementarity. Gary Smaby: Why I am not a physicist Ramy Brustein: What is the wavefunction of the black hole Gary Horowitz: How is general relativity like a high temperature superconductor Steve Shenker: Duals of eternal inflation, vector-like holography Veronika Hubeny: Recovering spacetime from the gauge theory Aron Wall: Why only gauge fields can antiscreen gauge fields (when minimally coupled). Samir Mathur: What the black hole info paradox can teach us about the early universe Jerome Gauntlett: Spatially modulated black holes Tom Hartman: Higher spin gravity, holography, and what it's good for Wei Song: Kerr CFT, microscopic understanding Niels Obers: Fluid and material properties of black branes, blackfold approach to black holes Alejandra Castro: Why you should care about the inner horizon of a black hole Dionysios Anninos: Tree like structures, glassy physics, why I don't understand the meaning of dS entropy, love & life Tomas Andrade: unitarity bounds and holography Rafael Porto: high energy scattering between planets or matter particles Curtis Asplund: Black hole formation in string theories George Musser: History of physics, beginning with Democritus...How we can explain this all to the public Alejandro Satz: Connections between the exact renormalization group and black hole entropy Peter Koroteev: Localization and Instanton Calculation ???: How much info about spacetime contained in a given region of a field theory, or the info paradox Paul de Lange: Black hole entropy at finite charges, logarithmic corrections Bram Wouters: Erik Verlinde's ideas about emergent gravity Ahmed Almheiri: 2d black holes and their evaporation James Sully: Bulk locality Jorge Santos: flowing funnels, black droplets, holographic lattices, Rob Myers: Holographic entanglement entropy, c-theorem, a-theorem... Mark Srednicki: Why thermalization requires quantum chaos Will Kelly: Asymptotic Symmetry groups of dS Mukund Rangamani: How much information about spacetime is contained in a given region of the field theory; hydrodynamics. Nemanja Kaloper: Cosmological model building Simon Ross: Holography for Lifshitz spacetimes Fay Dowker: How to count the entropy of any causal horizon (black hole, Rindler, deSitter etc.) Gilad Lifschytz: How does bulk locality emerge from AdS/CFT Shlomo Razamat: How to do (some) computations when you don't have a Lagrangian? Jorma Louko: How often does an Unruh-DeWitt detector click? Stéphane Detournay: Why the product of the inner and outer horizon areas of a BH is not always an integer. Is the CFT in Kerr/CFT really a CFT? Xi Dong: What are the fundamental degrees of freedom in de Sitter or FRW space? Eva Silverstein: How to uplift AdS/CFT to cosmological backgrounds and maintain unitarity. How spacetime dependent couplings can lead to relevant terms beating mass terms, preserving long range correlators despite the mass. How holographic RG extends to dS holography. David Kastor: Lovelock gravity Arjun Bagchi: What have non-relativistic symmetries got to do about flat space holography? Flatspace holography as a limit of AdS/CFT? Dave Morrison: D7-branes (aka F-theory)