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SUMMARY:Black Holes - the Harmonic Oscillators of the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Andy Strominger\, Harvard University\nHosted by: So-Y
	oung Pi\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/internal//posters/2010_Fall/01_Strom
	inger.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nAbstract:\
	nIn the twentieth century\, many problems across all of physics were solved
	 by perturbative methods which reduced them to harmonic oscillators. Black 
	holes are poised to play a similar role for the problems of twenty-first ce
	ntury physics. They are at once the simplest and most complex objects in th
	e physical universe. They are maximally complex in that the number of possi
	ble microstates\, or entropy\, of a black hole is believed to saturate a un
	iversal bound. They are maximally simple in that\, according to Einstein's 
	theory\, they are featureless holes in space characterized only by their ma
	ss\, charge and angular momentum. This dual relation between simplicity and
	 complexity\, as expressed in black holes\, has recently been successfully 
	applied to problems in a disparate variety of physical systems. I will give
	 an introduction to the subject intended for a general audience.
LOCATION:SCI 107\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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