Richard Borcherds
When: November 2, 4:00 - 5:00 PM Pacific Time
What: Can you travel to other universes through black holes? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? How would your time change, and what relativistic effects would you experience? How did math allow scientists to theorize black holes in the first place? Find out as we explore these dark mysteries.
Who: Richard Borcherds is a mathematician working on quantum field theory. From a young age, we he was skilled in math, receiving and almost perfect score on the International Math Olympiad. After obtaining his doctorate, he held positions at both Cambridge and UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, he held a Miller Research Professorship and is best known for his work on the Conway-Norton monstrous moonshine conjecture. He has turned the 't Hooft-Veltman proof of perturbative renormalizability of gauge theory into concrete mathematics. In 2014 he became part of the National Academy of Sciences.
Articles and videos about the subject:
Falling Into a Black Hole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqsLTNkzvaYLeonard Susskind on Black Holes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_XuFkVdAYUHawking Black Hole Paradox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Pcqkhmp_0Quantum Field Theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBeALt3rxEARegularization and Renormalization:
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/gthpub/regularization_renormalization.pdf---------------
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