Speaker: 
James M. Drummond
Speaker affiliation: 
Southampton
Date: 
Friday, January 18, 2019 - 13:00
Room: 
Seminar Room
Title: 
Quantum Gravity from Conformal Field Theory
Abstract: 

I will review a new approach to perturbation theory in AdS gravity based on a large N expansion of the dual conformal field theory. Explicit one-loop amplitudes can be constructed from classical data by demanding consistency of the Operator Product Expansion of the CFT.