Speaker
Gabriele Veneziano
Description
I will attempt to summarize some 35 years of work on semiclassical gravitational scattering, from the early days of (gedanken) transplanckian-energy collisions of particles and strings, to the recent era of (real) black hole encounters. I will emphasize some interesting lessons that the former problem can provide for the latter, while stressing the danger of claiming too naive a connection between the two regimes.
