[Seminars] Colloquium

[Ramona Echols]

    * EFI COLLOQUIUM*

TODAY 
    
    Monday March 4, 2019 
    4:15PM
    PRC 201
    
    Speaker:
    ANDREI STARINETS, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
    
    Title:
    STRING THEORY,QUARK-GLUON PLASMA,AND THE DYING WHISPERS OF BLACK HOLES
    
    Abstract: 
    Heavy ion collision programs at RHIC and LHC instigated a renewal of
    theoretical interest in relativistic hydrodynamics as an effective theory.
    The collisions create hot and dense nuclear matter known as the strongly
    coupled quark-gluon plasma: the parameters of the plasma can be
    measured with remarkable precision but its theoretical study is hindered
    by the strong non-perturbative effects of thermal QCD. At the same
    time, strongly interacting gauge theories at finite temperature and
    density can be investigated via holographic duality, connecting them
    to classical black hole space-times in higher dimensions. In particular,
    spectra of quasiparticle excitations in the strongly coupled plasmas are
    mapped into the quasinormal spectra of black holes, whose dying
    whispers tell us about plasma's viscosity and other transport coefficients,
    and set the limits of the hydrodynamic description. In the talk, we review
    the current status of this line of research, and reflect on recent advances
    in our understanding of gauge theory plasmas in the regime of
    intermediate coupling provided by dual gravity with higher derivative
    terms.
    
    Warmly, 
     
    Ramona Echols,  EFI/HEP Secretary IV
    Enrico Fermi Institute 
    University of Chicago
    933 E 56th Street, PRC 101
    Chicago, IL 60637
    Phone: 773-702-8113
    Rechols06 at uchicago.edu