Quantum aspects of black hole and inflationary cosmology in string theory
One of important directions in superstring theory is to reveal quantum nature of black hole. In this talk we embed Schwarzschild black hole into superstring theory or M-theory, which we call a smeared black hole, and resolve quantum corrections to it by including higher curvature corrections. Then we boost the smeared black hole along the 11th direction and construct a smeared quantum black 0-brane in 10 imensions. Quantum aspects of the thermodynamic for these black objects are investigated in detail. We also discuss inflationary cosmology which is caused by higher derivative corrections in M-theory.