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CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS
UNIVERZA V MARIBORU UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR
KREKOVA 2 SI-2000 MARIBOR SLOVENIA
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PROF.DR. MARKO ROBNIK, DIRECTOR

Seminarsko predavanje
Centra za uporabno matematiko in teoretično fiziko

Hydrodynamics: from low-energy physics to string theory

Sašo Grozdanov

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Abstract Hydrodynamics is usually used to describe low-energy physics, such as the behaviour of gases and fluids. The structure of hydrodynamics is, however, much more widely applicable. It can be used in particle physics to describe, for example, the collec- tive behaviour of quark-gluon plasmas, or in general relativity, to understand the gravitational fluctuations near a black hole horizon. In my talk, I will present some of these fascinating facets of hydrodynamics, with particular focus on high-energy physics. I will first discuss its description in terms of effective field theory and then move towards string theory. By introducing the AdS/CFT correspondence, I will discuss the unique window onto strongly coupled hydrodynamics that string theory has provided.

J. McGreevy, Holographic duality with a view toward many-body physics, Adv. High Energy Phys. 2010 (2010) 723105. [arXiv:0909.0518 [hep-th]].

Seminarsko predavanje bo v petek 12. aprila 2013 ob 15:15 uri v seminarski sobi CAMTP na Krekovi 2, pritličje desno. Vljudno vabljeni vsi zainteresirani, tudi študentje.

Prof.Dr. Marko Robnik
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