Course details and background reading:

References for the course
1. Lectures on Quantum Black Holes. Atish Dabholkar, Suresh Nampuri. arXiv:1208.4814
2. Black Hole Entropy Function, Attractors and Precision Counting of Microstates. A. Sen, arXiv:0708.1270
3. Black Hole Microstate Counting and its Macroscopic Counterpart. I. Mandal, A. Sen, arXiv:1008.3801


If the students have some preliminary background on black holes from the following lectures notes
or any standard GR book would be useful.
Introduction to The Theory of Black Holes, Gerard 't Hooft