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SPS organises a seminar by Marika Taylor

SPS organises a seminar by Marika Taylor

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SPS organises a seminar by Marika Taylor
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 School of Physical Sciences
 
 
organises a seminar on
 
 
The Holographic Reconstruction
 
 
Marika Taylor
University of Southampton, Southampton
 
 

Date and time: November 18, 2019 (Monday12:00 noon)

**Please note the unusual day and time**

 

Abstract: In the last two decades there has been a fundamental change in our understanding of gravity: it is believed that gravity is  holographic, with spacetime reconstructed from a flatland theory with no gravity in two spatial dimensions. This talk will first review the holographic dictionary, which relates gravity to the non-gravitational theory in one less dimension, and we will then discuss two important applications of the holographic correspondence. The first relates to quantum entanglement in strongly interacting systems --- holography maps entanglement into geometric quantities --- while the second application is gravitational waves at cosmological scales.
 
About the speaker: Marika Taylor is a Professor at the University of Southampton, where she is the Head of Applied Mathematics. Her work in quantum field theory and gravity is well known. She is a  Fellow of the  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences  and the recipient of the Minerva Prize  of the year 2008. She is a former student and collaborator of Stephen Hawking, and will also talk about her experience of working with him.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.