Invited Speakers

Henriette Elvang elvang@lns.mit.edu MIT

Strings and Supergravity Theory Black holes are fundamental objects in gravity, and much effort is made to understand them. As a candidate for quantum gravity, String Theory motivates the study of black holes in spacetimes with extra dimensions. Recently a number of surprising new solutions for black holes have been found in higher dimensional gravity. In this talk I explain the background and motivation for studying these black holes, and I will give an overview of what is currently known. The goal is to provide a simple summary of the subfield, the ideas and results as well as the methods used for finding new solutions."