Please see below for a talk that may be of interest to the HQI community. From: Liz Alcock <ealcock(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Monday, October 3, 2022 at 2:16 PM To: "thusem(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu" <thusem(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu>du>, "hetg(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu" <hetg(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu>du>, "hetg-particle(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu" <hetg-particle(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu>du>, "hetg-string(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu" <hetg-string(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu>du>, "Ploucha, Clare" <cploucha(a)fas.harvard.edu> Subject: CMSA colloquium: Subir Sachdev, Wednesday, Oct 5, 4:00 - 5: 00 pm (special time) Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that Prof. Subir Sachdev from Harvard University physics department will be our next colloquium speaker. The talk will take place at 20 Garden St., in seminar room G-10, between 4:00 - 5:00 pm. Note it is the special time. Please find below and attached for title and abstract for Prof. Sachdev's lecture. https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium_10522/ Best wishes, Jie Wang ---------------- Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Date and time: Wed, Oct 5, 4:00 - 5:00 pm Location: CMSA, 20 Garden St, seminar room G-10 Title: Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals Abstract: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model was introduced as a toy model of interacting fermions without any particle-like excitations. I will describe how this toy model yields the universal low energy quantum theory of generic charged black holes in asymptotically 3+1 dimensional Minkowski space. I will also discuss how extensions of the SYK model yield a realistic theory of the strange metal phase of correlated electron systems.