Plowing for physics with black holes

Friday 26 Dec 2025, 10:00 → 12:00 Asia/Shanghai

6620 (ITP South Building)

Speaker: Luis Lehner （Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ）

Abstract: Black holes have become unique tools in the understanding of a plethora of phenomena in vastly different fronts. From understanding spectacularly energetic events in our universe, from gaining insights on potential new particles to unraveling seemingly unrelated phenomena through a firm grasp of their dynamics is key. In this talk, we will connect with several of these fronts highlighting some interesting examples and opportunities as well as some new challenges.

Biography: Luis Lehner got this PhD at the University of Pittsburgh and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of British Columbia in Canada. He was a faculty at Louisiana State University from 2002 until 2009. He then moved back to Canada,  and is a Senior Researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. There he holds the Carlo Fidani Rainer Weiss Chair in Theoretical Physics.  He is also Co-Director of CIFAR's Gravity and the Extreme universe program.  He is a fellow of the International Society of General Relativity,  the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK).