John Preskill “Quantum Information and Spacetime” 

2016 Leigh Page Prize Lecture Series, hosted by Yale Department of Physics and Yale Quantum Institute
John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, “Quantum Information and Spacetime”
Abstract: Aside from enabling revolutionary future technologies, quantum information science is providing powerful new tools for attacking deep problems in fundamental physical science. In particular, the recent convergence of quantum information and quantum gravity is sparking exciting progress on some old and very hard questions.