START PROPOSAL Black Holes in AdS, the Universe, and Analog Systems

Black Holes have advanced to the forefront of current research in various disciplines: besides the obvious ones, general relativity, mathematical physics and astrophysics, also string theory, quantum chromodynamics, cosmology, computational physics, quantum gravity and even part of condensed matter physics devote a signicant fraction of their resources to the study of Black Holes. It is thus both a fascinating and timely subject to investigate. The main purpose of this project is a comprehensive study of Black Hole physics from a theoretic perspective, including the investigation of the impact that Black Holes have in disciplines other than general relativity. This will be a cooperative enterprise, especially for the part of it that requires expertise in elds such as quantum chromodynamics or condensed matter physics, and one of the main consequences for research in Austria will be the establishment o