Upcoming ICTP/SISSA Stat.Physics Seminar

[Statistical Physics]

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR


Friday, 10 October 2014 - 14.30*
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SISSA, "Cinema Room"


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Speaker:    David Mesterhazy

Title:         Universal Dynamics near and far from equilibrium


Abstract:
The quantitative understanding of universal dynamic properties of
strongly correlated systems both near and far from equilibrium poses
one of the most diverse and challenging problems in contemporary
physics. Applications cover a huge range of scales, from low temperature
states of condensed matter systems to the extreme states of matter
observed, e.g., in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Functional 
methods,
e.g., the functional renormalization group and effective action techniques,
as well as numerical lattice Monte Carlo methods offer a powerful approach
to tackle these problems and to resolve the non-perturbative dynamics.
Here, I focus on their applications to critical dynamics in stochastic 
models
with energy conservation as well as universal scaling phenomena in
hydrodynamic systems driven far from equilibrium.