Steve Giddings

An entertaining and informative book on problems that keep us up long into the dark:

A collection of video interviews for the PBS show "Closer to Truth," on black holes, quantum spacetime, and observers:

A short video celebrating Einstein's birthday and the recent detection of gravitational waves:

Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics (Physics Today, April 2013)

An article on an underappreciated value: The power of silence (from physicsworld.com)

Large Hadron Collider -- articles for a popular audience

"'God particle' or tip of the iceberg?" (published in the Chicago Tribune)

"What will the Large Hadron Collider reveal?" (published in the LA Times)

Recent conferences and workshops:

Quantum gravity foundations: UV to IR, KITP, Mar 30 - June 19, 2015

Santa Barbara Gravity Workshop II, Mar 17-19, 2014

Bits, Branes, and Black Holes, at KITP, UCSB; associated conference: Black holes and information. (see online talks and discussions)

West Coast LHC Theory Network Meeting, at UCSB

Quantum Gravity: from UV to IR, hosted by the CERN Theory Group.

Recent talks and other highlights:

Black Holes, Quantum Information Transfer, and Hilbert-space Networks , opening talk at the KITP conference Black holes and information

The problems of quantum gravity: from high-energy scattering to black holes and cosmology, Perimeter Institute Colloquium & Talk at Conference, "IR issues and loops in de Sitter space"

"Black holes in the cosmos, in the lab, and in fundamental physics" CERN Academic training lectures: Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3

Quantum black holes at the LHC?

LHC "Safety"

Santa Barbara Gravity Workshop

Publications

Research interests:

High energy and gravitational theory. Quantum black holes, quantum cosmology/inflation, and other quantum aspects of gravity; fundamental structure of matter and gauge interactions, particle phenomenology, string theory.

Events organized:

• Quantum gravity foundations: UV to IR, KITP, Mar 30 - June 19, 2015
• Santa Barbara Gravity Workshop II, Mar 17-19, 2014
• Quantum Gravity: from UV to IR
• West Coast LHC Theory Network Meeting
• Santa Barbara Gravity Workshop
  
• 2004 BIRS Workshop: ``New horizons in string cosmology"
• 2003 BIRS Workshop: ``Recent developments in string theory"
• 2001 ITP Workshop: M-theory
• Avatars of M-Theory:  ITP Conference, 2001
• Strings '98
• 2000 Aspen Workshop "String Dualities And Their Applications"
   

Some online lectures:

• The problems of quantum gravity: from high-energy scattering to black holes and cosmology, Perimeter Institute Colloquium & Talk at Conference, "IR issues and loops in de Sitter space"
• Black holes in the cosmos, in the lab, and in fundamental physics: Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3
• Black hole production at TeV energies?
• Branes, fluxes, moduli potentials, and the fate of four dimensions
• What is M-Theory?
• Introduction to strings, superstrings, and M-theory, from 1999 ITP Conference on black holes:  theory confronts reality.
• Effective theories and black hole production in warped compactifications, talk at ITP Santa Barbara, Nov. 2000
• Hierarchies from warped string compactifications, talk at ITP Santa Barbara, May 2001.

Some courses:

• 229A

Press - features/contributions:

Black holes/quantum gravity

• New Scientist article "How to think about black holes" (2018)
• Nature article on black hole bounces/information escape (2014)
• Quanta article "Betting on the Future of Quantum Gravity" (2014)
• Nova article "Stephen Hawking Serves Up Scrambled Black Holes" (2014)
• Nova article "Do Black Holes Destroy Information?" (2013)
• NewScientist article on emergent spacetime (2013)
• NewScientist article on black hole information (2013)
• Nature article on black hole information (2013) (followup comment)
• Symmetry article: The hunt for microscopic black holes
• FQXI article: "Black holes: paradox regained"
• New York Times article: ``Physicists Strive to Build a Black Hole"
• ISI interview on black hole production
• Discover magazine article: ``Now Under Construction: a Black Hole Factory"
• New York Times article on Black Hole Information
• 93106 article: ``Miniature Black Holes May Open Window to Other Dimension''

Large Hadron Collider - commentary, etc.

• NPR's All Things Considered on the "Higgs Discovery"
• Chicago Tribune "'God particle' or tip of the iceberg?"
• LA Times: "What will the Large Hadron Collider reveal?"
• National geographic news
• PBS Newshour
• The "glitch:" CBS ; Boston Globe ; MSNBC ; The Telegraph
• Christian Science Monitor

String theory and related subjects

• String theory on NPR's All things considered
• New York Times article on Brane Worlds
• New York Times article on String/M Theory;   Clarification; Photo from print version
• New York Times article on the Cosmological Constant and the Landscape of String Vacua
• New York Times article:   ``Back to Basics: How Did Space Get Its Dimensions?''
• New York Times article on Physics at the Planck Scale
• Santa Barbara News-Press article on Strings '98

Misc. physics, etc.

• Science's "most beautiful" theories: Reuters; MSNBC; National Post
• New York Times article on Physicists and Mountains
• APS Physics Central  People in Physics profile
• Article from 93106 (UCSB Faculty/Staff Newsletter)
• New York Times article "10 Physics Questions to Ponder for a Millennium or Two"

Misc:

String Theory online introduction (By my former student, J. Pierre)