2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics, 1st ed. 2018 Springer Proceedings in Physics Series, Vol. 208

Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: Singularities, Horizons, Firewalls, and Local Conformal Symmetry: Gerard ’t Hooft.- Panel Discussion, “The Duel”: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Gravity and Information: Gerard ’t Hooft, Steven B. Giddings, Carlo Rovelli, Piero Nicolini, Jonas Mureika, Matthias Kaminski and Marcus Bleicher.- Part I Black Holes in Classical General Relativity, Numerical Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Alternative Theories of Gravity.- A Menagerie of Hairy Black Holes: Elizabeth Winstanley.- Black Holes Sourced by a Massless Scalar: Mariano Cadoni and Edgardo Franzin.- Rotating Black Hole Solutions in f (R)-Gravity: Mariafelicia De Laurentis and Ruben Farinelli.- Symplectic structure of extremal black holes: Kamal Hajian, Ali Seraj.- The Causal Nature of Trapping Horizons: Ilia Musco, Alexis Helou and John C. Miller.- Einstein-Charged Scalar Field Theory: Black Hole Solutions and Their Stability: Supakchai Ponglertsakul, Sam Dolan and Elizabeth Winstanley.- The good properties of Schwarzschild’s singularity: Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica.- Part II Black Holes in Quantum Gravity and String Theory.- Quantum Black Holes as the Link Between Microphysics and Macrophysics: B. J. Carr.- Free Energy of Topologically Massive Gravity and Flat Space Holography: Daniel Grumiller and Wout Merbis.- Super-Entropic Black Holes: Robert B. Mann.- Aspects of Quantum Chaos Inside Black Holes: Andrea Addazi.- Black Hole Entropy in the Presence of Chern-Simons Term and Holography: Tatsuo Azeyanagi.- A Quantum Cosmic Conjecture: Roberto Casadio and Octavian Micu.- Phase transitions of regular Schwarzschild-Anti-deSitter black holes: Antonia Micol Frassino.- Thermal Corpuscular Black Holes: Andrea Giugno.- Generalized uncertainty principle and extra dimensions: Sven Köppel, Marco Knipfer, Maximilano Isi, Jonas Mureika, Piero Nicolini.- Perihelion Precession and Generalized Uncertainty Principle: Fabio Scardigli and Roberto Casadio.- Quantum-gravity phenomenology with primordial black holes: F. Vidotto, A. Barrau, B. Bolliet, M. Schutten and C. Weimer.- Part III Other Topics in Contemporary Gravitation.- Self Sustained Traversable Phantom Wormholes and Gravity’s Rainbow: Remo Garattini.- Cosmology via Metric-Independent Volume-Form Dynamics: Eduardo Guendelman, Emil Nissimov and Svetlana Pacheva.- Testing General Relativity on Accelerators: Tigran Kalaydzhyan.- Size Scaling of Self Gravitating Polymers and Strings: Shoichi Kawamoto and Toshihiro Matsuo.- The Hot and Dense QCD Equation of State in Heavy Ion Collisions and Neutron Star Mergers: Jan Steinheimer, Ayon Mukherjee, Natascha Wechselberger, Matthias Hanauske, Stefan Schramm and Horst Stöcker.

Covers a broad range of black hole physics

With contributions of leading experts in the field

Including a panel discussion with the Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft and other leading experts in the field