Robert Myers

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Director, Perimeter Institute
BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Faculty
Perimeter Research Chair
Areas of research:
Quantum Fields and Strings
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Overview
Robert Myers is one of the leading theoretical physicists working in the area of quantum fields and strings. He received his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1986, after which he was a postdoctoral researcher at what became the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He moved to McGill University in 1989, where he was a Professor of Physics until moving to Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo in the summer of 2001. Professor Myers was awarded the Herzberg Medal in 1999 by the Canadian Association of Physicists for seminal contributions to our understanding of black hole microphysics and D-branes. He is also the 2005 winner of Canada's top prize in theoretical and mathematical physics awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques . More recently, he was awarded the 2012 Vogt Medal by the Canadian Association of Physicists and TRIUMF for outstanding theoretical contributions to subatomic physics. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . He is one of the few people to have won the first-place award in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest more than once (winning in 1995 and 1997). Past winners of this contest, which was established for the purpose of stimulating thought and encouraging work on gravitation, include Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. Professor Myers was named as one of only three Canadian physicists on the list of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 , the Thomson Reuters list of top 1% of researchers who wrote most cited papers in their field over the period 2002 to 2012. In fact, he appeared again as the only Canadian physicist in the next edition of this list, the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 , covering the period 2003 to 2013. Professor Myers is also an associate fellow of the Cosmology and Gravity Program of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research , a uniquely Canadian enterprise devoted to networking top-flight researchers from across the country. From 2001 to 2005, he was a founding member on the scientific advisory board of the Banff International Research Station , a facility devoted to hosting workshops and meetings in the mathematical sciences and related areas. Professor Myers has also served on the editorial boards of the following research journals: Annals of Physics (January 2002 - July 2012) and Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2007 - present). Though his current activities are centered at Perimeter Institute, Professor Myers remains active in both teaching and supervising graduate students with his cross-appointment as an Adjunct Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Waterloo.
I am a member of the Quantum Fields and Strings group at Perimeter. While I have broad interests in theoretical physics, my research has primarily focused on gravitational aspects of string theory. Much of my recent work has involved developing applications of a set of theoretical tools that has emerged from string theory, known as the AdS/CFT correspondence or more broadly as gauge/gravity duality. Currently, I am also very interested in studying the growing connections between quantum gravity and quantum information theory.
  • 2019/01-Present, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Director
  • 2001/09-Present, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Senior Researcher
  • 2008/09-Present, Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Adjunct Professor
  • 2011/10-2018/03, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chair of the Faculty
  • 2017/09-2017/10, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Simons Distinguished Visiting Scholar
  • 2017/02-2017/05, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Acting Director
  • 2015/02-2015/05, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Acting Director
  • 2007/09-2008/09, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Interim Scientific Director
  • 2006/08-2007/07, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Physicist
  • 2006/05, Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Visiting Physicist
  • 2004/08, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Physicist
  • 2003/10-2008/09, Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Full Professor
  • 2003/08, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Physicist
  • 2001/09-2003/09, Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Adjunct Professor
  • 2000/01-2003/09, Department of Physics, McGill University, Full Professor
  • 1999/08-1999/12, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Physicist
  • 1997/09-1998/07, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Physicist
  • 1994/04-1999/12, Department of Physics, McGill University, Associate Professor
  • 1993/04-1993/06, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Physicist
  • 1989/09-1994/03, Department of Physics, McGill University, Assistant Professor
  • 1986/09-1989/08, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Highly Cited Researchers, 2021: This list compiled by Clarivate Analytics represents some of the world's most influential researchers as determined by a citation analysis of Web of Science data for the decade from 2009 to 2019.
  • 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Waterloo: Presented by the Faculty of Science to recognize alumni who have distinguished themselves as outstanding professional and personal achievers in their chosen fields and who have loyally dedicated their time and service to their alma mater
  • Highly Cited Researchers, 2017: This list compiled by Clarivate Analytics represents some of the world"s most influential minds as determined by a citation analysis of Web of Science data for the decade from 2005 to 2015.
  • Highly Cited Researchers, 2016: This list compiled by Clarivate Analytics represents some of the world"s most influential minds as determined by a citation analysis of Web of Science data for the decade from 2004 to 2014.
  • World's Most Infuential Scientific Minds, 2015: Appeared as the only Canadian physicist on the Thomson Reuters list of most highly cited researchers who wrote papers ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year in the decade starting 2003 to 2013.
  • World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, 2014: Appeared on the Thomson Reuters list of most highly cited researchers, who wrote papers ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year in the period 2002 to 2012.
  • Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2013: Awarded by the Governor General of Canada to recognize contributions in establishing the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal, 2012: Awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists and TRIUMF in recognition of outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to subatomic physics
  • Royal Society of Canada, 2006: Elected fellow of the Society for having achieved distinction, both nationally and internationally, by publishing learned works or original research
  • CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2005: Awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in recognition of exceptional achievements in theoretical and mathematical physics
  • Canadian Association of Physicists Herzberg Medal, 1999: Awarded for outstanding achievement by a Canadian physicist aged 40 or less
  • Canadian Institute of Advanced Research: Appointed Associate Member of the Program on Cosmology and Gravity in September 1998; Promoted to Program Fellow in March 2002.
  • Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest: - First award in 1997 for Pure states don't wear black - First award in 1995 with G. Horowitz for The Value of Singularities - Fourth award in 1988 with J.Z. Simon for Black Hole Evaporation and Higher-Derivative Gravity. This contest was established for the purpose of stimulating thought and encouraging work on gravitation. Past winners in the forty-nine year history of this contest include Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. I was only the second person to have won the first prize twice.
  • Eivind Jørstad, Robert C. Myers, Shan-Ming Ruan Holographic complexity in dS_{d+1} JHEP 05 (2022) 119 [arXiv: 2202.10684 [hep-th]].
  • G. Grimaldi, J. Hernandez, R.C. Myers Quantum extremal islands made easy. Part IV. Massive black holes on the brane JHEP 03 (2022) 136 [arXiv: 2202.00679 [hep-th]].
  • A. Belin, R.C. Myers, S.M. Ruan, G. Sarosi, A. Speranza Does Complexity Equal Anything? Phys.Rev.Lett. 128 (2022) 8, 081602 [arXiv: 2111.02429 [hep-th]].
  • J. Hernandez, R.C. Myers and S.M. Ruan, Quantum extremal islands made easy, Part III: Complexity on the brane, JHEP 02 (2021) 173 [arXiv: 2010.16398 [hep-th]].
  • H.Z. Chen, R.C. Myers, D. Neuenfeld, I.A. Reyes and J. Sandor, Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, Part II: Black Holes on the Brane, JHEP 12 (2020) 025 [arXiv: 2010.00018 [hep-th]].
  • H.Z. Chen, Z. Fisher, J. Hernandez, R.C. Myers and S.M. Ruan, Evaporating Black Holes Coupled to a Thermal Bath, JHEP 01 (2021) 065 [arXiv: 2007.11658 [hep-th]].
  • H.Z. Chen, R.C. Myers, D. Neuenfeld, I.A. Reyes and J. Sandor, Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, Part I: Entanglement on the Brane, JHEP 10 (2020) 166 [arXiv: 2006.04851 [hep-th]].
  • A. Bernamonti, F. Galli, J.P, Hernandez, R.C. Myers, S.M. Ruan and J. Simón, Aspects of The First Law of Complexity, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53 (2020) 294002 [arXiv: 2002.05779 [hep-th]].
  • H.Z. Chen, Z. Fisher, J.P. Hernandez, R.C. Myers and S.M. Ruan, Information Flow in Black Hole Evaporation, JHEP 03 (2020) 152 [arXiv: 1911.03402 [hep-th]].
  • E. Caceres, S. Chapman, J.D. Couch, J.P. Hernandez, R.C. Myers and S.M. Ruan, Complexity of Mixed States in QFT and Holography, JHEP 03 (2020) 012 [arXiv: 1909.10557 [hep-th]].
  • A. Bernamonti, F. Galli, J. Hernandez, R.C. Myers, S.M. Ruan and J. Simon, The First Law of Complexity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) 081601 [arXiv: 1903.04511 [hep-th]].
  • K. Goto, H. Marrochio, R.C. Myers, L. Queimada and B. Yoshida, Holographic Complexity Equals Which Action?, JHEP 1902 (2019) 160 [arXiv: 1901.00014 [hep-th]].
  • S. Chapman, J. Eisert, L. Hackl, M.P. Heller, R. Jefferson, H. Marrochio and R.C. Myers, Complexity and entanglement for thermofield double states, SciPost Phys. 6 (2019) 034 [arXiv: 1810.05151 [hep-th]].
  • G. Bednik, L.E. Hayward-Sierens, M. Guo, R.C. Myers and R.G. Melko, Probing trihedral corner entanglement for Dirac fermions, Phys. Rev. B 99 (2019) 155153 [arXiv: 1810.02831 [cond-mat.str-el]].
  • M. Guo, J. Hernandez, R.C. Myers and S.M. Ruan, Circuit Complexity for Coherent States, JHEP 1810 (2018) 011 [arXiv: 1807.07677 [hep-th]].
  • S. Chapman, H. Marrochio and R.C. Myers, Holographic complexity in Vaidya spacetimes. Part II, JHEP 1806 (2018) 114 [arXiv: 1805.07262 [hep-th]].
  • S. Chapman, H. Marrochio and R.C. Myers, Holographic complexity in Vaidya spacetimes. Part I, JHEP 1806 (2018) 046 [arXiv: 1804.07410 [hep-th]].
  • A. Bernamonti, F. Galli, R.C. Myers and J. Oppenheim, Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics, JHEP 1807 (2018) 111 [arXiv: 1803.03633 [hep-th]].
  • L. Hackl and R.C. Myers, Circuit complexity for free fermions, JHEP 1807 (2018) 139 [arXiv: 1803.10638 [hep-th]].
  • D. Carmi, S. Chapman, H. Marrochio, R.C. Myers and S. Sugishita, On the Time Dependence of Holographic Complexity, JHEP 1711 (2017) 188 [arXiv: 1709.10184 [hep-th]].
  • R. Jefferson and R.C. Myers, Circuit complexity in quantum field theory, JHEP 1710 (2017) 107 [arXiv: 1707.08570 [hep-th]].
  • D. Das, S.R. Das, D.A. Galante, R.C. Myers and K. Sengupta, An exactly solvable quench protocol for integrable spin models, JHEP 1711 (2017) 157 [arXiv: 1706.02322 [hep-th]].
  • R.C. Myers, M. Rozali and B. Way, Holographic Quenches in a Confined Phase,' J. Phys. A 50 (2017) 494002 [arXiv: 1706.02438 [hep-th]].
  • L.E.H. Sierens, P. Bueno, R.R.P. Singh, R.C. Myers and R.G. Melko, Cubic trihedral corner entanglement for a free scalar, Phys. Rev. B96 (2017) 035117 [arXiv: 1703.03413 [cond-mat.str-el]].
  • D. Carmi, R.C. Myers and P. Rath, Comments on Holographic Complexity, JHEP 1703 (2017) 118 [arXiv: 1612.00433 [hep-th]].
  • S. Chapman, H. Marrochio and R.C. Myers, Complexity of Formation in Holography, JHEP 1701 (2017) 062 [arXiv: 1610.08063 [hep-th]].
  • L. Lehner, R.C. Myers, E. Poisson and R.D. Sorkin, Gravitational action with null boundaries, Phys. Rev. D94 (2016) 084046 [arXiv: 1609.00207 [hep-th]].
  • L. Bianchi, S. Chapman, X. Dong, D.A. Galante, M. Meineri and R.C. Myers, Shape dependence of holographic Rényi entropy in general dimensions, JHEP 1611 (2016) 180 [arXiv: 1607.07418 [hep-th]].
  • J. de Boer, F.M. Haehl, M.P. Heller and R.C. Myers, Entanglement, holography and causal diamonds, JHEP 1608 (2016) 162 [arXiv: 1606.03307 [hep-th]].
  • R.C. Myers, T. Sierens and W. Witczak-Krempa, A Holographic Model for Quantum Critical Responses, JHEP 1605 (2016) 073 [arXiv: 1602.05599 [hep-th]].
  • S.R. Das, D.A. Galante and R.C. Myers, Quantum Quenches in Free Field Theory: Universal Scaling at Any Rate, JHEP 1605 (2016) 164 [arXiv: 1602.08547 [hep-th]].
  • H. Casini, D.A. Galante and R.C. Myers, Comments on Jacobson's "Entanglement equilibrium and the Einstein equation", JHEP 1603 (2016) 194 [arXiv: 1601.00528 [hep-th]].
  • L. Bianchi, M. Meineri, R.C. Myers and M. Smolkin, Rényi entropy and conformal defects, JHEP 1607 (2016) 076 [arXiv: 1511.06713 [hep-th]].
  • J. de Boer, M.P. Heller, R.C. Myers and Y. Neiman, Holographic de Sitter Geometry from Entanglement in Conformal Field Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016) 061602 [arXiv: 1509.00113 [hep-th]].
  • P. Bueno and R.C. Myers, Universal entanglement for higher dimensional cones, JHEP 1512 (2015) 168 [arXiv: 1508.00587 [hep-th]].
  • P. Bueno, R.C. Myers and W. Witczak-Krempa, Universal corner entanglement from twist operators, JHEP 1509 (2015) 091 [arXiv: 1507.06997 [hep-th]].
  • H. Casini, M. Huerta, R.C. Myers and A. Yale, Mutual information and the F-theorem, JHEP 1510 (2015) 003 [arXiv: 1506.06195 [hep-th]].
  • P. Bueno and R.C. Myers, Corner contributions to holographic entanglement entropy, JHEP 1508 (2015) 068 [arXiv: 1505.07842 [hep-th]].
  • S.R. Das, D.A. Galante and R.C. Myers, Smooth and fast versus instantaneous quenches in quantum field theory, JHEP 1508 (2015) 073 [arXiv: 1505.05224 [hep-th]].
  • P. Bueno, R.C. Myers and W. Witczak-Krempa, Universality of corner entanglement in conformal field theories, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (2015) 2, 021602 [arXiv: 1505.04804 [hep-th]].
  • A. Buchel, M.P. Heller and R.C. Myers, Equilibration rates in a strongly coupled nonconformal quark-gluon plasma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 25, 251601 [arXiv: 1503.07114 [hep-th]].
  • S.R. Das, D.A. Galante and R.C. Myers, Universality in fast quantum quenches, JHEP 1502 (2015) 167 [arXiv: 1411.7710 [hep-th]].
  • A. Buchel, R.C. Myers and A. van Niekerk, Nonlocal probes of thermalization in holographic quenches with spectral methods, JHEP 1502 (2015) 017 [arXiv: 1410.6201 [hep-th]]. [errata: JHEP 1507 (2015) 137]
  • M. Headrick, R.C. Myers and J. Wien, Holographic Holes and Differential Entropy, JHEP 1410 (2014) 149 [arXiv: 1408.4770 [hep-th]].
  • L.Y. Hung, R.C. Myers and M. Smolkin, Twist operators in higher dimensions, JHEP 1410 (2014) 178 [arXiv: 1407.6429 [hep-th]].
  • R.C. Myers, J. Rao and S. Sugishita, Holographic Holes in Higher Dimensions, JHEP 1406 (2014) 044. arXiv: 1403.3416 [hep-th].
  • S.R. Das, D.A. Galante and R.C. Myers, Universal scaling in fast quantum quenches in conformal field theories, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 171601, arXiv: 1401.0560 [hep-th].
  • T. Faulkner, M. Guica, T. Hartman, R.C. Myers and M. Van Raamsdonk, Gravitation from Entanglement in Holographic CFTs, JHEP 1403 (2014) 051, arXiv: 1312.7856 [hep-th].
  • A. Belin, L.Y. Hung, A. Maloney, S. Matsuura, R.C. Myers and T. Sierens, Holographic Charged Renyi Entropies, JHEP 1312 (2013) 059, arXiv: 1310.4180 [hep-th].
  • A. Buchel, R.C. Myers and A. van Niekerk, Universality of Abrupt Holographic Quenches, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 201602, arXiv: 1307.4740 [hep-th].
  • D.D. Blanco, H. Casini, L.-Y. Hung and R.C. Myers, Relative Entropy and Holography, JHEP 1308 (2013) 060, arXiv: 1305.3182 [hep-th].
  • D.A. Galante and R.C. Myers, Holographic Renyi entropies at finite coupling, JHEP 1308 (2013) 063, arXiv: 1305.7191 [hep-th].
  • R.C. Myers, R. Pourhasan and M. Smolkin, On Spacetime Entanglement, JHEP 1306 (2013) 013, arXiv: 1304.2030 [hep-th].
  • A. Buchel, L. Lehner, R.C. Myers and A. van Niekerk, Quantum quenches of holographic plasmas, JHEP 1305 (2013) 067, arXiv: 1302.2924 [hep-th].
  • E. Bianchi and R.C. Myers, On the Architecture of Spacetime Geometry, Class. Quant. Grav. 31 (2014) 214002 [arXiv: 1212.5183 [hep-th]].
  • F. Carrasco, L. Lehner, R.C. Myers, O. Reula and A. Singh, Turbulent flows for relativistic conformal fluids in 2+1 dimensions, Phys. Rev. D86 (2012) 126006, arXiv: 1210.6702 [hep-th].
  • A. Lewkowycz, R.C. Myers and M. Smolkin, Observations on entanglement entropy in massive QFT's, JHEP 1304 (2013) 017, arXiv: 1210.6858 [hep-th].
  • R.C. Myers and A. Singh, Entanglement Entropy for Singular Surfaces, JHEP 1209 (2012) 013, arXiv: 1206.5225 [hep-th].
  • Alex Buchel, Luis Lehner and Robert C. Myers, Thermal quenches in N=2* plasmas, JHEP 1208 (2012) 049, arXiv: 1206.6785 [hep-th].
  • H. Elvang, D.Z. Freedman, L.-Y. Hung, M. Kiermaier, R.C. Myers and S. Theisen, On renormalization group flows and the a-theorem in 6d, JHEP 1210 (2012) 011, arXiv: 1205.3994 [hep-th].
  • Robert C. Myers and Ajay Singh, Comments on Holographic Entanglement Entropy and RG Flows, JHEP 1204 (2012) 122, arXiv: 1202.2068 [hep-th].
  • Complexity=Anything, at Verlinde Symposium, University of Amsterdam, July 15, 2022
  • How can we use information in quantum gravity? at Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime conference, Western University, London, ON, June 9, 2022
  • Complexity=Anything^2, at Informational Architecture of Spacetime Workshop (online conference), organized by Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, May 29, 2022
  • Complexity=Anything^2, HoloTube seminar series (online), May 17, 2022
  • Complexity=Anything^2, Joint Israeli High-Energy-Theory Seminar series (online), April 26, 2022
  • Complexity=Anything^2, Gravity, Quantum Fields and Information (AEI)-Ghent University-Warsaw String Theory seminar series (online), January 25, 2022
  • Complexity=Anything^2, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (online), Mumbai, India, January 10, 2022
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at Oxford Complexity Meeting (hybrid conference, talk online), University of Oxford, UK, December 6, 2021
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, Ben Gurion University (online), November 15, 2021
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at Applications of Quantum Information Theory in Quantum Field Theory and Cosmology workshop (online conference), Lethbridge University, Lethbridge, Alberta, November 22, 2021
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory'', at International Workshop on Quantum Artificial Intelligence (hybrid workshop, talk online), Shanghai, July 6, 2021
  • The Challenge for Institutions, Panel discussion at Sustainable HEP workshop (online), CERN, June 28, 2021
  • Black hole information paradox, Discussion leader (with Netta Engelhardt) (online) at Strings 2021, SAIFR, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 25, 2021
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Quarks Online Workshop 2021: Quantum Gravity and Cosmology (dedicated to A.D. Sakharov's centennial), Russian Federation, June 4-8, 2021
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, University of Alabama (online), April 23, 2021
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Rencontres Théoriciennes seminar series (online), Paris, April 1, 2021
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, Nordic HET seminar series (online), February 23, 2021
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, Caltech (online), January 22, 2021
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at stringtheory.pl/2020 (10th annual meeting of the Polish string theory community) (online), December 17-18, 2020
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, Crete Centre for Theoretical Physics (online), December 15, 2020
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, University of California, Berkeley (online), December 1, 2020
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at ICTS String Seminars (online), Bangalore, India, November 25, 2020
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Joint Israeli High-Energy-Theory Seminar (online), October 20, 2020
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Quantum Information in QFT and AdS/CFT, (online conference) organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, August 6-7, 2020
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Quantum Aspects of Space-Time and Matter Forum (online), Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, July 30, 2020.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at Complexity from Quantum Information to Black Holes meeting (online conference), at the Lorentz Center, Leiden University, June 2-5, 2020.
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Frontiers of holographic duality, (online conference) Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow, Russia, April 27-May 8, 2020.
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, in Quantum Gravity & Information virtual seminar series, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), March 25, 2020.
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Caltech, January 10, 2020.
  • Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy, at Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone VIII, Bariloche (Argentina) and Valdivia (Chile), December 16-20, 2019.
  • Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity, at Princeton Gravity Initiative Opening Celebration, Princeton, November 7-8, 2019.
  • First Law of Complexity, at Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, September 13, 2019.
  • First Law of Complexity, at Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity 5, Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics, University of California, Davis, August 19-23, 2019.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory: A Progress Report, at Amsterdam String Workshop 2019, at the Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, July 15-26, 2019.
  • First Law of Complexity, at Quantum Information and String Theory 2019 (It-from-Qubit School/Workshop), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, June 17-28, 2019.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, April 16, 2019.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at SPOCK (Strings and Particles in Ohio, Cincinnati and Kentucky) 2019 meeting, at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, April 13, 2019.
  • Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity, (colloquium) at Department of Physics, University of Kentucky, April 12, 2019.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory: A Progress Report, at Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information, CERN, March 18-22, 2019.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, March 15, 2019.
  • Holographic Second Laws of Black Hole Thermodynamics, at Department of Physics, University of Toronto, February 15, 2019.
  • Complexity, Holography \& Quantum Field Theory, at Entanglement, Chaos and Complexity in Field Theory and Gravity workshop, hosted by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, City University of New York, October 26, 2018.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at Entanglement, Integrability and Topology in Many-Body Systems, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, September 17-21, 2018.
  • Holographic Second Laws of Black Hole Thermodynamics, at New Frontiers in String Theory 2018, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, July 2-6, 2018.
  • Holographic Second Laws of Black Hole Thermodynamics, at Strings, Geometry and Black Holes: 23rd European String Workshop, King's College, London, London, England, April 9-13, 2018.
  • Holographic Second Laws of Black Hole Thermodynamics, at Center for Theory of Quantum Matter, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 6, 2018.
  • Holographic Second Laws of Black Hole Thermodynamics, at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany, March 23, 2018.
  • Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity, at DPG-Fruhjahrstagung der Sektion Materie und Kosmos, Julius-Maximilians Universitat, Wurzburg, Germany, March 19-23, 2018.
  • Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity, at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 15, 2018 (Physics Department Colloquium).
  • Holographic Complexity and Beyond, at ``It from Qubit" Workshop, at Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, January 4-6, 2018.
  • Holographic Complexity and Beyond, at 20 Years Later: The Many Faces of AdS/CFT, at Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, October 31 - November 3, 2017.
  • Tutorial on Holography for Quantum Information, at Quantum Physics of Information program at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barabara (two 1.5 hour lectures), September 28-29, 2017.
  • Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory, at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, September 27, 2017.
  • ``Einstein's Gravity: Black Holes to Gravity Waves", lectures at IFT-Perimeter-SAIFR: Journeys into Theoretical Physics, IFT-SAIFR, Sao Paulo, Brazil (four 1.25 hour lectures for advanced undergraduates), July 10-15, 2017.
  • ``Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory," at Strings 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 26-30, 2017.
  • ``Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity" (Physics Department Colloquium), at Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, June 22, 2017.
  • ``Entanglement", lectures at Pre-Strings 2017: Advanced Strings School, Technion, Haifa, Israel (four one-hour lectures), June 18 -- 22, 2017.
  • ``Complexity, Holography & Quantum Field Theory," at Caltech, Pasadena, May 26, 2017.
  • ``Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity" (Physics Department Colloquium), at University of California, Riverside, May 25, 2017.
  • ``Holographic Complexity: A Progress Report," at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, April 3, 2017.
  • ``Holographic Complexity: A Progress Report," at Computational Complexity meets Quantum Gravity, It-From-Qubit Complexity Workshop, Stanford University, March 20-22, 2017.
  • ``The Emergence of Spacetime: Entanglement & Complexity", at Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina, February 14, 2017.
  • ``Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory and Holography", lectures at XIX Swieca Summer School on Particles and Fields, Maresias, Brazil (five 1.5 hour lectures), January 31-February 10, 2017.
  • ``Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory and Holography", lectures at 11th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology, Sun Yat-sen University (Zuhai Campus), Zuhai, China (four 1.25 hour lectures), January 6-16, 2017.
  • ``Comments on Holographic Complexity," at Recent Developments in Fields, Strings, and Gravity, Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP), University of California, Davis, December 12-16, 2016.
  • ``Comments on Holographic Complexity," at It-from-Qubit Collaboration Meeting, Simons Foundation, New York City, December 8-9, 2016.
  • "Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity," at 21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Columbia University, July 11-15, 2016
  • "Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement, Holography & Gravity'', colloquium at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, June 27, 2016
  • "Scanning New Horizons: Information, Holography & Gravity'', colloquium at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, June 22, 2016
  • "Entanglement Holography" at Yukawa International Seminar 2016: Quantum Matter, Spacetime and Information Workshop at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, June 13-17, 2016
  • "Entanglement Holography (Part 1)" at Current Themes in Holography: Exact results, applications, extensions and fundamentals Workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, April 25-29, 2016
  • "Scanning New Horizons: Information, Holography and Gravity" at New Frontiers in Entanglement Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 7-8, 2016
  • "Scanning New Horizons: Information, Holography & Gravity'', at CIfAR Cosmology and Gravity Meeting, Whistler, BC, March 31 - April 2, 2016
  • "Entanglement Holography," at Emergent Themes in String Theory Workshop at the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 15-19 2016
  • "Entanglement Holography," at Holography Meeting at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium,January 22, 2016
  • "Scanning New Horizons: Information, Holography and Gravity," at [email protected] Veldhoven 2016 at Koningshoff Hotel, Veldhoven, Netherlands, January 19-20, 2016
  • "Entanglement Holography," at KIAS-YITP Joint Workshop 2015: Geometry in Gauge Theories and String Theory at the Korean Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea, September 15-18, 2015
  • "Entanglement Holography," at International Workshop on Strings, Black Holes and Quantum Information at the Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, September 7-11, 2015.
  • "Entanglement and C-theorems," at International Workshop on Strings, Black Holes and Quantum Information at the Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan,September 7-11, 2015
  • "Scanning New Horizons: Entanglement & Holography," at Strings 2015 at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India, June 22-26, 2015.
  • "Rounding a New Corner with AdS/CMT," at Garyfest at University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1-2, 2015.
  • "Mutual Information & the F-theorem," at the University of California, Berkeley, April 29, 2015.
  • "Mutual Information & the F-theorem," at Gauge/Gravity Duality 2015 at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy, April 13-17, 2015.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement," at CIfAR Cosmology and Gravity Meeting, Banff, Alberta, March 26-28, 2015.
  • "Entanglement & C-theorems," at Simons Symposium on Quantum Entanglement at St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort, Puerto Rico, March 15-21, 2015.
  • "Entanglement & C-theorems," at Holographic Renormalization Group and Entanglement Workshop at University Paris Diderot, January 26-28, 2015.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement," at Indian Strings Meeting 2014 at Blue Lily Hotel, Puri, India, December 15-20, 2014.
  • Chandrasekhar Lectures at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences-TIFR, Bangalore, India: "New Dialogues: Entanglement, Renormalization & Holography," December 10, 2014; "Holographic Entanglement Entropy," December 11, 2014; and "Entanglement & C-theorems," December 12, 2014.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity Conference, at University of British Columbia, August 18-22, 2014
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at Amsterdam String Workshop, at Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 30 - July 11, 2014.
  • "Non-equilibrium phenomena: One holographer's perspective'' at Conference on Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Condensed Matter and String Theory, at International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2014.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at Theory Canada 9 Conference, at Wifrid Laurier University, June 12 - 15, 2014.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the University of California, Berkeley, May 8, 2014.
  • "New Dialogues: Entanglement, Renormalization and Holography'', at Stanford University, May 6, 2014 (Physics Department Colloquium).
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at Stanford University, May 5, 2014.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the Joint MIT-Harvard Theory Seminar at MIT, Boston, April 10, 2014.
  • "Quantum Quenches and Thermalization: One Holographer's Perspective'', at New Perspectives on Thermalization Workshop, at Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, March 16 - 22, 2014.
  • "Spacetime Entanglement'', at the From the Renormalization Group to Quantum Gravity: Celebrating the science of Joe Polchinski Conference, at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 27 - 28, 2014.
  • "Entanglement and C-theorems'', at the Quantum Fields Beyond Perturbation Theory Conference, at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 27 - 31, 2014.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the IBS Symposium, at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, January 23, 2014.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the COST-WIS Workshop on: Black Holes and Quantum Information, at Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, January 12 - 17, 2014.
  • "Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory'', 6 hours of lectures at the 31st Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics on: "Frontiers of Quantum Information Science,'' at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 30, 2013 - January 9, 2014.
  • "Holography and Entanglement'', at Kings College, London, December 5, 2013.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy and Spacetime Entanglement'', at the Triangle String Seminar at Kings College, London, December 4, 2013.
  • "Quantum Quenches and Holography'' at Oxford University, December 3, 2013.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy and Spacetime Entanglement'', at Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atomico Bariloche, November 27, 2013.
  • "Quark Soup al dente: Applied Superstring Theory'', at Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atomico Bariloche, November 22, 2013. (Colloquium)
  • "Quantum Quenches and Holography'', at Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atomico Bariloche, November 20, 2013.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, October 29, 2013.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the Columbia University, New York, NY, October 28, 2013.
  • "RG Flows, Entanglement and Holography'', at Nonperturbative QFT: Methods and Applications, DESY Theory Workshop at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, September 24 - 27, 2013.
  • "Quantum Quenches and Holography'', at the Holography: from gravity to quantum matter workshop, at the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University, September 16 - 20, 2013.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the KIAS-YITP Joint Workshop: String Theory, Black Holes and Holography, at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, July 1 - 5, 2013.
  • "RG Flows, Entanglement and Holography'', at Strings 2013, at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, June 24 - 29, 2013.
  • "Geometric Realizations of Quantum Entanglement'', at the 37th Johns Hopkins Workshop: New Perspectives in String Theory, at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, June 19 - 22, 2013.
  • "Quantum Quenches and Holography'', at the Austin Holography Workshop, at the University of Texas, Austin, May 13 - 14, 2013.
  • "On Spacetime Entanglement'', at the SPOCK Conference, at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2, 2013.
  • "New Dialogues: Entanglement, Holography and Renormalization'', Andrew Chamblin Memorial Colloquium, at the Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Kentucky-Lexington, March 1, 2013.
  • "Review of Holographic (and Other) Computations of Entanglement Entropy, and its Role in Gravity'', at Simons Symposium on Quantum Entanglement: From Quantum Matter to String Theory, at Caneel Bay, St. John, US Virgin Islands, February 4 - 8, 2013.
  • "On the Architecture of Spacetime Geometry'', at Stanford University, January 23, 2013.
  • "On the Architecture of Spacetime Geometry'', at the University of California, Berkeley, January 22, 2013.
  • "On the Architecture of Spacetime Geometry'', at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 14, 2012.
  • "On the Architecture of Spacetime Geometry'', at the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, December 12, 2012.
  • "Quantum Quenches and Holography'', at the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, December 11, 2012.
  • "On the Architecture of Spacetime'', at the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 23, 2012.
  • "Holography, Entanglement entropy and C-theorems'', at Entangle This: Strings, Fields and Atoms Workshop, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, November 19 -- 21, 2012.
  • "Holographic Calculations of Renyi Entropy'', at Entanglement in Discrete and Continuous Quantum Systems Workshop, at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, October 25 - 26, 2012.
  • "Quantum Quenches and Holography'', at Holographic Thermalization Workshop, at the Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands, October 8 - 12, 2012.
  • "Holographic Calculations of Renyi Entropy'', at RG Flows, Entanglement and Holography Workshop, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 17 - 21, 2012.
  • "RG Flows, Entanglement and Holography Workshop'' (Opening Introductory Talk), at RG Flows, Entanglement and Holography Workshop, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 17 - 21, 2012.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at Forty Years of Black Hole Thermodynamics, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, September 3 - 7, 2012.
  • "Conjectures on (A to F)-theorems: Entanglement Entropy, Free Energy & RG Flows'', at Back to the Bootstrap II workshop, at Perimeter Institute, June 11-15, 2012.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at the Joint IIP-ICTP Workshop on Gravity and String Theory, at the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8-9, 2012.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', 2.5 hours of lectures at the IIP-ICTP School on Gravity and String Theory, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, May 10-24, 2012.
  • "Quantum Quenches and Holography'', at CIfAR Cosmology and Gravity Meeting, Whistler, BC, April 5-8, 2012.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at 28th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, at KITP, UC Santa Barbara, March 23-24, 2012.
  • "Holography, Entanglement entropy and C-theorems'', at University of Michigan, February 17, 2012.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at Holographic Duality and Condensed Matter Physics Program, at KITP, UC Santa Barbara, November 10, 2011.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan, September 27, 2011.
  • "Holographic (and Non-Holographic) C-theorems'', at IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan, September 27, 2011.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at String Theory, Holography and Beyond Conference, at KIAS, Seoul, Korea, September 20--24, 2011.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at McGill University, August 1, 2011.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at XLI LPTENS Summer Institute, at Laboratory of theoretical physics ENS, Paris, France, August 17 - September 2, 2011.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at Cold Materials, Hot Nuclei, and Black Holes: Applied Gauge/Gravity Duality Conference, at ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August 15-26, 2011.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at Gravity - New perspectives from strings and higher dimensions Workshop, Centro de ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque, Spain, July 17-29, 2011.
  • "Holographic c-theorems'', at Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics Conference, APC, Paris, France, June 14-17, 2011.
  • "Holographic Entanglement Entropy'', at Black Holes VIII Workshop, at Niagara Falls, May 10-14, 2011.
  • "(Quantum) Gravity and (Quantum) Information'', at Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity and Condensed-Matter Physics Workshop, at Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, May 22 - June 5, 2011.
  • "New Directions in Holography'', at CIfAR Cosmology and Gravity Meeting, Whistler, BC, March 31 - April 3, 2011.
  • "Holographic c-theorems'', at UC Santa Barbara, March 8, 2011.
  • "Holographic c-theorems'', at MIT, March 16, 2011.
  • "Holographic c-theorems'', at Caltech, March 4, 2011.
  • "Holographic c-theorems'', at Strongly Correlated Systems and Gauge/Gravity Duality Workshop, at the Aspen Physics Center, Aspen, Colorado, January 31 - February 5, 2011.
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