Speaker: Ofer Aharony
Date: October 11, 2021
Affiliation: Weizmann
Title: Towards an explicit theory of quantum gravity
Abstract: In the first half of this colloquium I will review the problem of quantum gravity, and how it is solved for quantum gravity in anti-de Sitter space by the AdS/CFT correspondence. I will give two examples of this correspondence illustrating that unlike in most other dualities, quantum effects can be small on both sides of the duality at the same time. In the second half I will present for one of these examples (the O(N) vector model) an explicit construction of a quantum theory of gravity (based on 2011.06328 in collaboration with Shai Chester and Erez Urbach).