TH String Theory Seminar

Holographic excursions beyond hydrodynamics

Name: Holographic excursions beyond hydrodynamics
Start: 2013-08-13T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-08-13T15:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Michal Heller (Amsterdam U and Warsaw U)

Tuesday 13 Aug 2013, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Description

One of the most interesting recent advances in holography were developments of numerical techniques for anti-de Sitter gravity. I will discuss lessons that we learnt from applying this technology in the context of heavy ion collisions and the physics of strongly coupled quark gluon plasma. More specifically, I will discuss recent distinction made between thermalization and applicability of hydrodynamics, the so-called "hydrodynamization", and I will show that hydrodynamic gradient expansion is an asymptotic series. I will conclude by discussing a holographic toy-model of a heavy ion collision exhibiting a crossover between full stopping and transparency scenario.

Organised by

B. Pioline