Programme
Monday, 10 July 2017:
8:00-8:45 REGISTRATION (Canterbury Quad, St John's college)
8:45-9:00 Introductory remarks (New Seminar Room, Canterbury Quad, St John's college)
| Monday 10 July | Tuesday 11 July | Wednesday 12 July | Thursday 13 July | Friday 14 July | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Peter Steinberg | Dam Thanh Son | Misha Stephanov | Romuald Janik | Derek Teaney |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Ulrich Heinz | Michael Strickland | David Mateos | Larry Yaffe | Larry McLerran |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Michal Heller | Peter Arnold | Raju Venugopalan | Zoltan Fodor | Aleksi Vuorinen |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Jorge Noronha | Edmond Iancu | Francois Gelis | Harvey Meyer | Pavel Kovtun |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Krishna Rajagopal | Aleksi Kurkela | Simon Hands | Saso Grozdanov | |
Speakers and Talks
P. Arnold: Quantum Interference in Showering: The LPM effect and what's new
Z. Fodor: Calculation of the axion mass based on high-temperature lattice quantum chromodynamics
F. Gelis: Tree-level correlations in the strong field regime
S. Grozdanov: Generalised global symmetries and dissipative magnetohydrodynamics: field theory and holography
I will discuss a new symmetry-based approach to dissipative relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which allows for a formulation of MHD in plasmas with any equation of state and transport coefficients, in weakly- and strongly-interacting theories. After constructing MHD at ideal and dissipative levels, I will present new predictions for the behaviour of MHD waves (Alfven and magnetosonic waves) in dense plasmas with strong magnetic fields. Furthermore, I will claim that MHD may persist to be a good low-energy effective theory in the limit of zero temperature where it becomes non-dissipative with corrections controlled by second-order hydrodynamics. Finally, I will discuss a new construction of a holographic dual to MHD, from which relevant microscopic details (equations of state and seven transport coefficients) can be extracted to study MHD waves in a model of a strongly interacting plasma.
S. Hands: Two Color QCD at non-zero Baryon Density
U. Heinz: The unreasonable effectiveness of hydrodynamics in describing nuclear collisions
The talk aims to present a unifying picture of hydrodynamization in different models of quark-gluon plasma dynamics. This unification originates from the interplay between the hydrodynamic gradient expansion and transient modes.
E. Iancu: Jet evolution in a quark-gluon plasma at weak coupling
R. Janik: Holographic phase transitions in real time
P. Kovtun: Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics
I will discuss relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics, which is hydrodynamics coupled to dynamical electromagnetic fields. Until recently, there seemed to be no consensus in the literature on a) what does the relevant thermodynamics look like, and b) what is the number of transport coefficients. I will describe my take on the subject, through Maxwell's equations in matter in a covariant form. Simple examples include Alfven, magnetosonic, and other waves. For a parity-preserving fluid in 3+1 dimensions, there are seven dissipative and four non-dissipative transport coefficients at first order in derivatives.
A. Kurkela: Hydrodynamization at weak coupling
D.Mateos: Extreme Holography
Abstract: A massive experimental effort will be devoted in the coming years to the physics of QCD in extreme conditions, namely at high energy densities and/or high baryon densities. Understanding this physics, especially out of equilibrium, is an important theoretical challenge. I will discuss how holography can help us address this challenge. Topics covered will include the far-from-equilibrium dynamics near the QCD critical point, quark matter crystals and colour superconducting phases.
L. McLerran: Large N_c and Phase Diagram of QCD
H. Meyer: The photon production rate of the QGP: an improved estimate from lattice QCD
J. Noronha: Emergence of hydrodynamic behavior and non-equilibrium attractor dynamics in rapidly expanding fluids
K. Rajagopal: Jets, Holographic and Hybrid, and their Evolution in Strongly Coupled Plasma
D.T. Son: Duality and fractional quantum Hall effect
P. Steinberg: Experimental evidence for collectivity in large and small hadronic systems
M. Stephanov: QCD critical point, fluctuations and hydrodynamics
M. Strickland: Quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics
D. Teaney: Hydrodynamic long time tails for a Bjorken expansion, and transits of the QCD critical point
R. Venugopalan: The chiral anomaly, Berry’s phase and chiral kinetic theory from world-lines in quantum field theory
Abstract: Topological transitions that induce a chirality imbalance in a deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP) generate an electromagnetic current in the direction of an external magnetic field. This remarkable phenomenon, the Chiral Magnetic Effect, has been observed in condensed matter systems. In heavy-ion collisions, an interesting question of phenomenological relevance is how the chiral imbalance generated persists through a fluctuating background of sphalerons in addition to other ``non-anomalous” interactions with the QGP. To address this question, we construct a relativistic chiral kinetic theory using a world-line formulation of quantum field theory. This permits an intuitive and elegant interpretation of chiral kinetic dynamics in terms of a supersymmetric world-line action for spinning, colored, Grassmanian point particles in external backgrounds. We outline how Berry’s phase arises in this framework, and how its effects can be clearly distinguished from those arising from the chiral anomaly. Finally, we discuss the applications of our framework to the transport of chiral fermions in other many-body contexts.
A. Vuorinen: Neutron star properties from QCD
L.G. Yaffe: Small black holes and puzzles in thermalization