Speaker
Dmitri Khveshchenko
(North Carolina)
Description
In spite of many interesting developments,
the overall progress towards a systematic study and
classification of various 'strange'
metallic states of matter has so far been rather slow. To that
end, it was
argued that a recent proliferation of the ideas of holographic
correspondence
originating from string theory might offer a possible way out
of the stalemate.
However, despite a flurry of recent applications of the broadly
defined
holographic conjecture to a variety of condensed matter
problems, the validity of this
intriguing approach remains anything but firmly established.
This discussion aims at ascertaining its true status
and elucidating the conditions under which its predictions
may indeed be right (albeit, possibly, for a wrong reason).
