Physics Colloquium with Andrea Karch

Abstract: The Randall-Sundrum scenario celebrates its 25th birthday, but despite its age it continues to be a nexus for groundbreaking discoveries at the interface of particle phenomenology, formal quantum field theory, quantum gravity and, to a small extend, condensed matter physics. In this talk I will explain the reasons for continued interest in these constructions, highlighting recent insights into topics as varied as the black hole information paradox and interface conformal field theories.

Bio: Andreas Karch is a professor of Physics at UT Austin, where he moved after being on the faculty for close to 20 years at the University of Washington in Seattle. He works on string theory and formal quantum field theory with an eye towards applications in other areas of physics. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany, received an MA from UT Austin, his PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin, and did postdocs at MIT and Harvard. He is a fellow of the APS and a PI on the Simons Collaboration on Ultra Quantum Matter.