Seminar series
Date
Mon, 26 Jan 2009
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Andrei Starinets
Organisation
Oxford
Gauge-string duality relates transport properties of certain strongly interacting quantum field theories at finite temperature/density to spectra of normal modes of black branes in dual supergravity backgrounds. The duality serves as a source of quantitative information about the physics of strongly coupled relativistic plasmas as well as a source of qualitative insights into the properties of nuclear matter created in heavy ion collision experiments. It may also help to understand non-equilibrium behavior of black holes/branes. We reflect on recent progress in this field.