Scientific Calendar Event



Description
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, is organizing a Conference on Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Condensed Matter and String Theory, to be held in Trieste from 30 June to 4 July 2014.
Small fluctuations of systems at equilibrium or weakly driven near equilibrium satisfy a universal relation known as the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, which connects spontaneous fluctuations to the linear response. The search for similar relations for systems far from equilibrium has been an important problem for many years with applications in Condensed Matter and Atomic Molecular Optical systems, as well as ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at Large Hadron Collider. 
Presently, many important questions remain unanswered, such as identifying the relevant time scales for relaxation and thermalization, finding whether there is an equivalent of the KAM theorem for quantum systems, understanding the effect of disorder and driving, among others. Making progress on those questions will require a close collaboration between experimentalists and theorists, as well as a the exchange of ideas and approaches between different fields.
This Conference will help catalyze interactions between the Condensed Matter/AMO physicists working on problems far from equilibrium with their counterparts in the High Energy physics community. It will also allow interested scientists to enter this exciting new area of research through a daily pedagogical talk.
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  • Monday, 30 June 2014
    • 08:00 - 17:00
      • 08:00 REGISTRATION 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Registration of participants outside the Main Lecture Hall (Leonardo da Vinci Building, Main Entrance Level), and administrative/financial matters
      • 09:30 Welcome speech 15' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 09:45 Non-equilibrium phenomena: One holographer's perspective (overview talk) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: R. Myers
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:15 Scaling in quantum quench: Holography and beyond 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. Das
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Physical origin of the universality of the three-body parameter in ultracold atomic gases 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Ueda
      • 14:45 Supersymmetry in quantum optics and in spin-orbit coupled systems 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: V. Gritsev
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:00 Organized discussion 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
  • Tuesday, 1 July 2014
    • 09:00 - 20:30
      • 09:00 Non-equilibrium cold-atom experiments (overview talk) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: D. Weiss
      • 10:00 Probing non-equilibrium dynamics at the single atom level 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: I. Bloch
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:15 Simulations of out-of-equilibrium dynamics in optical lattices: Beyond free-expansion measurements 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: U. Schollwoeck
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Holographic relaxation of finite size closed systems 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: E. Lopez
      • 14:45 Holographic signatures of cosmological singularities 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: G. Horowitz
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:00 Organized discussion 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 19:00 Reception - Leonardo da Vinci Building, Terrace 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        All participants are invited to join!
  • Wednesday, 2 July 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 Non-equilibrium dynamics via asymptotically AdS numerical gravity (overview talk) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: L. Yaffe
      • 10:00 Time evolution of entanglement entropy for local operator excitations in conformal Field Theories 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T. Takayanagi
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:15 Generalized Mueller-Israel-Stewart theories of relativistic hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium degrees of freedom in strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Heller
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Quantum quenches in Fermion liquids: From the generalized Gibbs ensemble to prethermalization 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M.A. Cazalilla
        Material: slides
      • 14:45 Quench dynamics in a model with tuneable integrability breaking 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: F. Essler
        Material: slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:00 Organized discussion 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 17:00 POSTER SESSION 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby )
  • Thursday, 3 July 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      • 09:00 Universality of dynamics in closed interacting systems (overview talk) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Polkovnikov
        Material: slides
      • 10:00 Universal quantum dynamics in many-body localized states and the many-body localization transition 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: E. Altman
        Material: slides
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:15 Quench dynamics in interacting and disordered field theories in one dymension 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Mitra
        Material: slides
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 An overview of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. Srednicki
      • 14:45 Thermalization of isolated systems, a numerical study 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M.Kruczenski
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:00 Organized discussion 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
  • Friday, 4 July 2014
    • 09:15 - 16:15
      • 09:15 Universal far-from-equilibrium dynamics of a holographic superconductor 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. Sonner
      • 10:00 Holographic approaches to non-equilibrium thermal transport 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. Bhaseen
      • 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:15 Thermalization and irreversibility in closed quantum many-body systems 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. Kehrein
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Dynamical phase transitions and the statistics of excitations 45' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. Silva
      • 14:45 Organized discussion, and closing remarks 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 15:45 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )