[Theory-seminars] Colloquium Wednesday 11 am

[Alexei Prokudin]

Dear all,
We will have a colloquium tomorrow at 11 am in CEBAF Center Auditorium

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Lab & Stony Brook University)

Abstract: I will discuss aspects of the physics of very high energy 
heavy ion collisions, which form the hottest and densest matter on 
earth. This matter, called a Quark-Gluon Plasma previously only existed 
micro-seconds after the big bang. The talk will provide a look into how 
this matter is formed, what it is made up of, and its transport 
properties. The lecture will draw on ideas in Quantum Chromodynamics, 
string holography, statistical mechanics, plasma physics, quantum chaos, 
Bose-Einstein Condensates and pre-heating in inflationary cosmology. It 
will examine closely the spectacular success of hydrodynamics in 
describing the properties of the QGP.


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