Speaker
Alex Buchel
(Perimeter Institute)
Description
Effective field theory approach to non-equilibrium dynamics
is an
old concept. I explain how a relation between strongly
coupled gauge
theories and gravity arises in String Theory and allows to
construct
this non-equilibrium effective field theory from first
principles. I
discuss the computation of the shear and bulk viscosities in
a large
class of strongly interacting plasmas and comment on the ongoing
experimental efforts to measure this quantity at the
Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider
