Upcoming lecture series (Zoom link inside!)

[Heinz, Ulrich]

My apologies if you receive this more than once!

Dear members of the OSU Physics Department:

In the coming week the Nuclear Physics group will host Professor Paul Romatschke from the University of Colorado (https://www.colorado.edu/physics/paul-romatschke) who will deliver a 1-week mini-course (5 lectures, 90 minutes each) on “Relativistic Fluid Dynamics Out of Equilibrium”. Professor Romatschke is a pioneer in the development and application of modern fluid dynamics for relativistic (and relativistically evolving) fluids, and he has made several discoveries that require text books on the field to be rewritten (which he has done! See https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108651998). You are invited to join his lectures, either in person at the space-time locations given below, or remotely via ZOOM.

The lectures will be broadcast through ZOOM. You can join them at the following link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/964518492 .

The schedule:
Monday, 2:00pm-3:30pm (PRB 1080)
Tuesday, 12:45pm-2:15pm (PRB 1080)
Wednesday, 2:00pm-3:30pm (PRB 1080)
Thursday, 12:45pm-2:15pm (PRB 1080)
Friday, 1:00-2:30pm (PRB 4138)

Please note varying times and locations.

Title and abstract for the lecture series: (see also https://physics.osu.edu/events/nuclear-physics-special-mini-lecture-series-paul-romatschke-university-colorado-relativistic):

Title: Relativistic Fluid Dynamics Out of Equilibrium

Abstract: In standard textbooks, fluid dynamics is often introduced as a near-equilibrium approximation to classical kinetic theory. Recent advances, both in theory for out-of-equilibrium quantum field theories and experimental data from high energy colliders, have taught us that the textbooks are wrong: fluid dynamics quantitatively applies in out-of-equilibrium, and highly quantum-mechanical, situations. In these lectures, I will discuss how modern out-of-equilibrium fluid dynamics is set up, how it relates to familiar microscopic approaches such as kinetic theory and gauge/gravity duality, and how and when it breaks down. If time allows, I'll also mention hydrodynamics result for high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC as an application of this out-of-equilibrium fluid dynamics framework.

Best regards,

Uli

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