The prestigious Argentine scientist Juan Maldacena participated in a great event of the UNLP

The renowned scientist Juan Maldacena, participated in the 75th meeting of the Strings@ar Network that was held this Thursday at the Institute of Physics (IFLP) of the UNLP. The event brings together Argentine researchers working in theoretical physics, including quantum field theories, superstring theories, quantum gravity, gauge/string duality with various applications, among other topics, in the country and abroad.

The meeting was attended by the dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences, Mauricio Erbenthe director of the IFLP, Carlos Naonthe vice director of the Institute, Maria Theresa Dova, teachers and students of the UNLP Physics Career. The meeting served as a framework for Maldacena, one of the most important theoretical physicists in the world, to offer a magisterial conference on “The entropy of Hawking radiation”.

Maldacena made innumerable contributions to theoretical physics, ranging from string theories and black holes to systems that can be built in a laboratory. His work Theory M, is the most cited in the world after the theory of relativity.

The scientist is the creator of a revolutionary theory. His great discovery has to do with that universal emblem of knowledge that was Einstein.. The physicist formulated a new theory that better explains how the universe is formed and how it works.

The “Maldacena Conjecture” It is the most cited work in the world, after Einstein’s. With String Theory he unified quantum mechanics, when he describes very small particles: atoms and things smaller than atoms, and the modern theory of gravity that explains planets, galaxies, the universe.

The Argentine physicist related and unified the “Theory of relativity”which describes the operation of objects as large as stars, galaxies or the universe itself, with the theory of quantum mechanics that analyzes the behavior of infinitesimal worlds, such as electrons or quarks.

He teaches at Harvard and Princeton.. In addition, he became the youngest lifetime professor in Harvard history. At the age of 30, the scientist received one of the highest recognitions in the field of science in Budapest: the Lorentz Medal. In some cases this award turns out to be a springboard for the Nobel Prize.

Maldacena postulates the possibility that everything around us is nothing more than a projection of a much simpler cosmos without gravity.

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences established the Lorentz Medal in honor of the 50th anniversary of the doctorate of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), Nobel Prize winner and father of theoretical physics in the Netherlands . According to this academy, this recognition is given every four years to a researcher who “has made innovative contributions to theoretical physics.” “Maldacena has made a great contribution to our understanding of the quantum physics of black holes”they explained.

In 1997, he was the first to propose a fundamental relationship between the two most important theories of modern physics: quantum field theory and quantum gravity. This “AdS / CFT correspondence”as it is known, set in motion a veritable revolution in string theory. Since then, scientists have developed numerous theoretical implementations of this correspondence, the physical implications of which are still being studied.

According to the scientist, “black holes are objects where the flow of time is greatly distorted. It becomes so deformed that if one gets too close to a black hole this flow of time inexorably drags us inside.. If we think of the black hole made of certain ‘atoms of space time’, then we want to understand what this flow of time means. And whether the information that is pulled in gets out or not.”