Mathematical Physics Seminar

NUI Maynooth

Speaker: Brian Dolan (NUI Maynooth)

When: Friday 28 September 2-3 pm

Where: Hall D, Arts Building, North Campus.

Title: The Thermodynamics of Black Holes

Abstract: Traditional treatments of the first law of black hole thermodynamics do not include a discussion of pressure and volume. After a general introduction to black-hole thermodynamics I shall review some recent developments proposing a consistent definition of volume that can be used to extend the first law appropriately. New results will also be presented relating to the critical point and the associated second order phase transition for a rotating black-hole in four-dimensional space-time which is asymptotically anti-de Sitter. In line with known results for a non-rotating charged black-hole, this phase transition is shown to be of Van der Waals type with mean field exponents

∙ All are welcome. Tea/Coffee & biscuits afterwards