ICTP COLLOQUIUM

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ICTP COLLOQUIUM

16:30, Friday 8 October 2010
Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP

Alessandro Silva
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section

"Nonequilibrium dynamics: from cold atoms to universality"

This colloquium gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental 
progress in the area of nonequilibrium dynamics of strongly interacting 
quantum systems. Recent interest on this subject has been spurred by a 
series of groundbreaking experiments in nanostructures and cold atomic 
gases in optical lattices. After reviewing these experiments I will 
discuss the theoretical issues they raised in a number of contexts, 
ranging from the the dynamics of thermalization in systems taken out of 
equilibrium to the quest of universal features in the nonequilibrium 
dynamics of correlated quantum systems.