Date : October 25, 2022, 16:00 CEST Yi Yin (CAS, China) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Slow modes in non-hydrodynamic regime Abstract: Identifying possible slow modes remains a major challenge in the study of many-body systems in general and the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions in particular. In this talk, I discuss relevent d.o.fs in non-hydrodynamic regime […]

Date : October 18, 2022, 18:00 CEST Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Covariant prescriptions for holographic entanglement Abstract: In the holographic setting of gauge/gravity duality, there has been a growing expectation that the emergence of the bulk gravitational spacetime is rooted in the entanglement structure of the dual gauge theory. While the deep connection remains […]

Date : October 11, 2022, 16:30 CEST (unusual time!) Sebastian Grieninger (Stony Brook University) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Critical and near-critical relaxation of holographic superfluids Abstract: We investigate the relaxation of holographic superfluids after quenches with end state is either exactly on the critical point, or very close to it. In the former case the system exhibits a […]

Date : October 4, 2022, 16:00 CEST Kristan Jensen (University of Victoria) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Large N fractons Abstract: I will discuss some aspects of coarse-grained models of fractons. These theories have been of recent interest to condensed matter and high energy theorists. On the one hand they are candidates for new phases of quantum matter, and […]

Date : September 27, 2022, 16:00 CEST Christian Ecker (Goethe University Frankfurt) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Mergers Abstract: Determining the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and its Equation of State (EoS) at densities and temperatures realised inside neutron stars and their mergers is a long-standing open problem. I […]

Date : July 12, 2022, 17:00 CEST Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Holography for QFTs in de Sitter Abstract: I will discuss how to set up holography for QFTs in de Sitter by studying AdS gravity coupled to a scalar field in the bulk. The talk will start with a discussion of the subtleties […]

Date : July 5, 2022, 16:00 CEST Hon Liu (MIT), Andrew Lucas (U. of Colorado, Boulder) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Discussion: Future directions in many-body quantum systems and condensed matter physics from holography

Date : June 21, 2022, 16:00 CEST Giuseppe Policastro (École Normale) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 A semi-holographic model of non-Fermi liquids Abstract: In recent years, the holographic correspondence has been used in many contexts to explore properties of strongly coupled systems that are hard to explain by conventional methods. One instance of such systems is given by the […]

Date : June 7, 2022, 16:00 CEST David Lowe (Brown University) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Quantum Chaos and Unitary Black Hole Evaporation Abstract: The formation and evaporation of small AdS black holes in a theory with a holographic dual is governed by the usual rules of quantum mechanics. The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis explains the validity of semiclassical gravity […]

Date : May 31, 2022, 16:00 CEST Amos Yarom (Technion) Link: https://zoom.us/j/98260147834?pwd=VW5BQStqUGUrUFFzWG1jL2tuWXJoZz09 Title: Hydrodynamics, spin currents and torsion Abstract: I will explain how to construct the canonical constitutive relations for a fluid description of a system with a spin current, valid in an arbitrary number of dimensions in the absence of parity breaking or time reversal […]