Black holes, and the ''other side'' of graphene

Description
The forefront research on the fundamental properties of space, time and matter (a field that, sometimes, goes under the generic name of `quantum gravity`) has produced an enormous amount of fascinating hypotheses, theories, and conjectures. Unfortunately, direct proofs of the latter are, to date, mostly unfeasible. In this talk, I will show how graphene could become the experimental playground for some of those ideas. In particular, I will describe how the well-known special-relativistic-like behavior of the low-energy electrons of graphene, can be exploited to make graphene an unexpected laboratory to test the Hawking phenomenon.

Talk in Italiano.