Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications

Hongfei Shu , Rui-Dong Zhu , Hao Zou

Shahin Sheikh-Jabbari

Thursday, June 30, 2022 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

1129B

Zoom 361 038 6975 (BIMSA)

Last 50 years' developments have revealed deep relations between thermodynamics and gravity as formulated in Einstein general relativity, despite their apparent differences. These relations seem so fundamental and deep that they have prompted the idea that they may be telling us about the very nature of gravity. In this talk I review these salient features and discuss recent developments in the connection between gravity and thermodynamics. In particular, I describe how general covariance ingravity theories leads to laws of thermodynamics when we consider gravity on spacetimes with null boundaries.

M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari (Shahin) is a professor at School of Theoretical Physics of IPM, Tehran. He completed his PhD at physics department of Sharif Uni. in Tehran in 1998. He spent 7 years of postdoc at IPM, ICTP (Trieste) and Stanford ITP before becoming an associate professor at IPM in 2005 and then a full professor there since 2006. Shahin has a wide research interest, from early and late universe cosmology to various areas in theoretical high energy and black hole physics. He is the author of a graduate textbook black hole physics, from collapse to evaporation (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-10343-8) and in recent years has been working on Einstein GR in spacetimes with boundaries, from covariant space viewpoint.