Workshop: Applications of AdS/CFT to QCD and condensed matter physics

October 19-23, 2015

Program

 

Monday, October 19, 2015

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Shigeki Sugimoto
(Kyoto University)
On the meson spectrum and the equation of state in holographic QCD
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 11:00
Aldo Cotrone
(Università di Firenze)
Holographic QCD at finite (imaginary) chemical potential
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Alexander Maloney
(McGill University)
Geometric microstates for the three dimensional black hole?
Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
William Witczak-Krempa
(Harvard University)
Universal entanglement and dynamics in 2+1D CFTs
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Christopher Herzog
(Stony Brook University)
Tales from the edge: boundary terms and entanglement entropy
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
16:30 - 17:30
Gino Knodel
(University of Michigan)
Universal features of Lifshitz Green's functions from holography
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Laurence Yaffe
(University of Washington)
Numerical holography and heavy ion collisions
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 11:00
Paul Chesler
(Harvard University)
Holography & hydrodynamics in small systems
Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Gautam Mandal
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Gregory-Laflamme as the confinement/deconfinement transition in holographic QCD
Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Takeshi Morita
(Shizuoka University)
Holographic QCD at finite temperature: Instantons and chiral symmetry restoration
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Simon Caron-Huot
(Copenhagen University)
16:30 - 17:30
Leopoldo Pando Zayas
(University of Michigan)
Disordered hologrpahic superconductors
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
TBA
10:00 - 11:00
Gim Seng Ng
(McGill University)
Anomaly-induced theromodynamics in higher dimensional AdS/CFT
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Subir Sachdev
(Harvard University)
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and strange metals
Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Nora Brambilla
(Technische Universität München)
Effective field theories for quarkonium at zero and finite temperature
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Francesco Bigazzi
(INFN, Pisa)
Theta dependence in holographic Yang Mills
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

18:30
Conference Dinner at Le Taj Indian Restaurant

 

Thursday, October 22, 2015

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Henrique Boschi-Filho
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Hadrons in AdS/QCD and other holographic models
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:00 - 11:00
Alex Buchel
(University of Waterloo)
Equilibration rates in a strongly coupled nonconformal quark-gluon plasma
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Shamit Kachru
(Stanford University)
Which quantum field theories have emergent gravity?
Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Aalok Misra
(Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
Thermal QCD at finite gauge coupling from string/$M$ theory involving six-/seven-folds of $SU(3)-/G_2$-structure
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Yanyan Bu
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Linearly resumed hydrodynamics from gravity
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
16:30 - 17:30
Lata Kharkwal Joshi
(Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Backreaction effects of matter coupled higher derivative gravity on transport properties
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Friday, October 23, 2015

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6254

Session - Special Colloquiums
Meeting room(s) : 6254

10:00 - 11:00
Shigeki Sugimoto
(Kyoto University)
Holographic QCD (review)
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
Nora Brambilla
(Technische Universität München)
QCD, heavy quarkonium and effective field theories
Diapos / Slides