Talks

We  will  briefly review  the  issue  of    "information loss"    during  the Hawking   evaporation of a  black hole,  and  argue that    the  quantum dynamical  reduction  theories, which  have  been  developed to  address the   measurement problem  in quantum mechanics,  possess the  elements to  diffuse the ``paradox”  at the qualitative  and  at   the  quantitative  level, leading to what  seems  to be an overall  coherent  picture.  

The  QCD axion is a curious Dark Matter candidate, having a mass like the neutrino, but behaving as Cold Dark Matter. I will review how this occurs, and discuss the interesting question  of whether WIMPs could be distinguished from axions with Large Scale Structure data.

The properties of a strange metal fermion model with infinite-range

interactions turn out to be closely related to those of charged black holes

with AdS2 horizons. I show that a microscopic computation of the ground

state entropy density of the fermion model yields precisely the Bekenstein-Hawking

entropy density of the black hole. The fermion model is UV finite and has no supersymmetry