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SUMMARY:Quantum Tunneling and Black Hole Horizons
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Andrea Puhm\, Harvard\n\nPart of the HET Seminar Seri
	es.\n\nTo avoid information loss it has been argued that effective field th
	eory has to break down at the horizon of black holes. In this talk I will d
	iscuss two string-theoretic effects that have been proposed as dynamical me
	chanisms for such a breakdown. First\, I will study potentially non-adiabat
	ic pair-creation of open strings in Schwarzschild black holes and criticall
	y revisit the nice slice assumption employed in the discussion of informati
	on loss. Second\, I will investigate quantum tunneling effects of matter (b
	ranes) into microstate geometries (built from topology and fluxes in string
	 theory) and their potential role in avoiding the formation of a horizon in
	 the gravitational collapse process.
LOCATION:PRB 565\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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