Schedule for: 16w5067 - Gauge/Gravity Duality and Condensed Matter Physics

Beginning on Sunday, February 28 and ending Friday March 4, 2016

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, February 28
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, February 29
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Subir Sachdev: Compressible quantum matter: connecting field theories and holography (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Karl Landsteiner: The holographic Weyl semi-metal (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Blaise Gouteraux: Hydrodynamic theory of quantum fluctuating superconductivity (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Chris Herzog: Fish and Hydrodynamics in a Large Number of Dimensions (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre
Meet in the Corbett Hall Lounge for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus.
(Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Sung-Sik Lee: Quantum RG, tensor network and holography (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Niccolo Traverso: Fractional Wigner Crystal in the Helical Luttinger Liquid (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Jackson Wu: Entanglement entropy in a holographic Kondo model (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Simon Gentle: Holographic momentum relaxation in the large D limit (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, March 1
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Jan Zaanen: Holography and the nature of strange metal entanglement (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Andy Lucas: Transport in strongly disordered holographic metals and in graphene (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Rene Meyer: Defects in holographic Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Pavel Kovtun: Thermodynamics of polarized relativistic matter (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:15 - 14:15 Guided tour of the Banff Centre (meet outside Corbett Hall) (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 17:00 Informal discussions in smaller groups (TCPL)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:00 Daniel Arean: Holographic disorder in brane intersections and superconductors (TCPL 201)
20:00 - 21:00 Discussion on holographic disorder and instabilities led by Sera Cremonini and Daniel Arean (TCPL 201)
Wednesday, March 2
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Steven Gubser: Top-down holographic Fermi surfaces (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Ehud Altman: Critical dynamics and entanglement patterns at the many-body localization transition (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Amos Yarom: Entanglement and anomalies (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Andreas Karch: A Precision Test of AdS/CFT with Flavor (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Charlotte Kristjansen: Integrable one-point functions of AdS/dCFT from matrix product states (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:00 Bhilahari Jeevanesan: Critical Phenomena in Hyperbolic Space (TCPL 201)
20:00 - 20:30 Kristan Jensen: Anomaly matching and locality in warped conformal field theory (TCPL 201)
Thursday, March 3
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Anatoli Polkovnikov: Quantum Chaos and Thermalization Through Eigenstates
In this talk I will review basic notions of classical and quantum chaos in single particle systems and in particular the relation of quantum chaos and the random matrix theory (RMT). Then I will discuss the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), introduced by J. Deutsch and M. Srednicki, as a natural extension of RMT. I will show how ETH can be used to derive familiar thermodynamic relations including fluctuation theorems and in some cases extend them beyond linear response. I will also briefly discuss some examples where ETH is violated: integrable systems, MBL systems and periodically driven Floquet systems.
(TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Rozali Moshe: Particle production at strong coupling (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Hong Liu: Effective field theory of dissipative fluids (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Jerome Gauntlett: Stokes equations on black hole event horizons (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Martin Ammon: Phase diagram of 4D field theories with chiral anomaly from holography (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Julian Sonner: Black Holes from Quantum Quenches (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Tomas Andrade: Simple models of momentum relaxation in Lifshitz holography (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, March 4
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Mukund Rangamani: The fluid manifesto: topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Matthias Kaminski: Holographic non-relativistic transport in strongly correlated systems from Horava gravity
I will present methods for calculating correlation functions in a conjectured field theory dual to Horava gravity. We will focus on the hydrodynamic limit of the energy-momentum and charge transport channels that describe momentum and charge diffusion.
(TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Johanna Erdmenger: AdS/CMT: An outlook (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (BIRS Coffee Lounge, TCPL and Reading Room) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)