This meeting will be presented in a hybrid format with in-person for invited speakers and Princeton University Affiliates (must have a PU ID).  Non-PU affiliates should register to participate via Zoom.

Organizers: Scott Collier, Matthew Heydeman, Luca Iliesiu, Vladimir Narovlansky, Gustavo J. Turiaci, Herman Verlinde

In recent years, new insights about holographic dualities have led to unexpected connections between low-dimensional quantum gravity, black hole mechanics, and condensed matter physics. For example, quantum mechanical systems describing non-Fermi liquids such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model have been understood to be dual, in some limit, to theories of two dimensional dilaton-gravity with black holes. Simple models of holography in low dimensions thus give a dual description of quantum black holes, and also provide an arena in which general consistency principles may be used to bootstrap quantum gravity. The tractability of these models even when quantum gravity effects become strong has opened a new window on black hole physics, thermalization, quantum chaos, and more. These developments have also helped elucidate a spacetime picture of how information comes out of an evaporating black hole, its relation to spacetime wormholes, and the role of disorder in gravity. This workshop aims to bring together experts from these fields to take stock of recent progress and develop new collaborations.