Class at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
NTMF091
Syllabus
- Review of black holes
- Thermodynamics of black holes
- Semiclassical black holes
- Hawking radiation
- Black-hole analogs
- Entropy and information
- Black holes and entropy
- Information problems with black holes
- Some notions of quantum gravity
- Quantum black holes
Annotation
The course is covering a review of classical black holes and basic quantum aspects of black holes. It also indicates some open problems in black hole physics. Knowledge of black holes on the level of NTMF037 course is necessary (though briefly reviewed at the beginning).
Completing first the NTMF065 course is recommended (though not strictly required).