BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Alvaro Herráez (Max Planck Institute) DTSTART:20251126T120000Z DTEND:20251126T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260513T195536Z UID:HETnyuad/12 DESCRIPTION:Title: From the Double EFT Expansion to the Black Hole-Tower Correspondence: To wers of states in asymptotic regimes\nby Alvaro Herráez (Max Planck I nstitute) as part of High Energy Theory NYU Abu Dhabi\n\nLecture held in N YU Abu Dhabi Computational Research Building.\n\nAbstract\nIn this talk we will explore the structure of EFTs and black holes within the context of Quantum Gravity. Using string theory as a laboratory\, we argue that any EFT describing Quantum Gravity should exhibit a double expansion for highe r-curvature operators\, which includes terms suppressed with respect to th e Einstein-Hilbert term by either the mass of the lightest tower of states or by the Quantum Gravity cutoff\, which we identify as the species scale . We will then discuss the implications of this framework for the asymptot ic behaviour of certain Wilson coefficients of higher-dimensional gravitat ional operators\, revealing interesting connections with recent S-matrix b ootstrap results. Complementarily\, we will present how minimal black hole s can be used to understand such quantum gravity cutoff in asymptotic regi ons of field space\, where their entropy appears to correspond to that of towers of states predicted by the Distance Conjecture. This provides a gen eralization of the celebrated black hole-string correspondence. Finally\, we briefly present how these two approaches to the understanding of the s pecies scale fit together \, by discussing a particular example of BPS bla ck hole in 4d N=2 from type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/HETnyuad/12/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR