On microscopic explanation of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy via geometric engineering of black holes in string theory as bound states of D-branes: Discussion of black hole entropy of D2-D6 brane bound states as black holes in string theory: On D1-D3 brane intersections as spikes/BIons in the D3-brane DBI-theory: On the AdS-CFT correspondence: Juan Maldacena, The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2:231, 1998 (hep-th/9711200) Juan Maldacena, Wilson loops in Large field theories, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 4859 (hep-th/9803002) Ofer Aharony, Steven Gubser, Juan Maldacena, Hirosi Ooguri, Yaron Oz, Large Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity, Phys.Rept.323:183-386,2000 (arXiv:hep-th/9905111) On supergravity, D-branes and the large N limit of super Yang-Mills theories: On AdS3-CFT2 for D1/D5 brane bound states and black hole entropy in string theory: On Inönü-Wigner contraction of anti de Sitter spacetimes to pp-wave spacetimes, single trace operators in the AdS/CFT correspondence, and introducing the BMN matrix model: On boundary conditions (BCFT/D-branes) for the gauged WZW model via parafermions: On M5-branes in the BMN matrix model: and a limit where aspects of little string theory become visible: Proposing ER = EPR: General aspects of nearly AdS2-CFT1 (JT-gravity/matrix models): Argument that the image of wormhole traversal under AdS-CFT duality is quantum teleportation: On AdS2/CFT1 with the BFSS matrix model on the CFT side and black hole-like solutions in type IIA supergravity on the AdS side: Claim that the proper application of holographic entanglement entropy to the discussion of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy resolves the apparent black hole information paradox: Review: Exposition of the BFSS matrix model in view of the holographic principle: Juan Maldacena, A simple quantum system that describes a black hole [arXiv:2303.11534] Juan Maldacena: The BFSS conjecture, a review, talk at Strings 2024 (2024)...