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Edge Modes and Gravity

March 30, 2022 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am

02CMSA-Colloquium-03.30.2022

Speaker: Rob Leigh, UIUC

Title: Edge Modes and Gravity

Abstract:  In this talk I first review some of the many appearances of localized degrees of freedom — edge modes —  in a variety of physical systems. Edge modes are implicated for example in quantum entanglement and in various topological and holographic dualities. I then review recent work in which it has been realized that a careful treatment of such modes, paying attention to relevant symmetries, is required in order to properly understand such basic physical quantities as Noether charges. From many points of view, it is conjectured that this physics may be pointing at basic properties of quantum spacetimes and gravity.

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Date:
March 30, 2022
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9:30 am - 10:30 am
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