Scanning new horizons: Information, holography & gravity (joint colloquium with Department of Physics and Astronomy) - Rob Myers

In science, new advances and insights often emerge from the confluence of different ideas coming from what appeared to be disconnected research areas. The theme of my talk will review an ongoing collision between the three topics listed in my title which over the last decade has generated a variety of new insights about the nature of quantum gravity, as well as variety of other fields, eg, condensed matter physics and quantum field theory.