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Lectures on Quantum Gravity

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Andrés Gomberoff

    1. Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile

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  2. Donald Marolf

    1. Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

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  • Contains improved and updated versions of the lectures given at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS),Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002

Part of the book series: Series of the Centro De Estudios Científicos (SCEC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Thermodynamics of Black Holes

    • Robert M. Wald
    Pages 1-37

  3. Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect

    • Ted Jacobson
    Pages 39-89

  4. Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity

    • Juan Maldacena
    Pages 91-150

  5. Lectures on D-branes, Tachyon Condensation, and String Field Theory

    • Washington Taylor
    Pages 151-206

  6. Billiard Dynamics of Einstein-Matter Systems Near a Spacelike Singularity

    • Thibault Damour, Marc Henneaux, Hermann Nicolai
    Pages 207-247

  7. Tall Tales from de Sitter Space

    • Robert C. Myers
    Pages 249-303

  8. Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity

    • Rafael D. Sorkin
    Pages 305-327

  9. Thermaldecay of the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes

    • Andrés Gomberoff, Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim, Frank Wilczek
    Pages 329-349
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The 2002 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute School on Quantum Gravity was held at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS),Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002. The school featured lectures by ten speakers, and was attended by nearly 70 students from over 14 countries. A primary goal was to foster interaction and communication between participants from different cultures, both in the layman’s sense of the term and in terms of approaches to quantum gravity. We hope that the links formed by students and the school will persist throughout their professional lives, continuing to promote interaction and the essential exchange of ideas that drives research forward.

This volume contains improved and updated versions of the lectures given at the School. It has been prepared both as a reminder for the participants, and so that these pedagogical introductions can be made available to others who were unable to attend. We expect them to serve students of all ages well.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile

    Andrés Gomberoff

  • Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

    Donald Marolf

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