Colloquium – Pavel Kovtun

Pavel Kovtun, University of Victoria

Extreme fluids: From field theory to hydrodynamics and back.

Hydrodynamics is a well-established field with a venerable history. In this talk, I will focus on foundational aspects of hydrodynamics which are relevant to describing matter in the extreme conditions of high temperatures and high densities. Do the equations of hydrodynamics even make sense? To what degree can the crudeness of hydrodynamics be improved? What about the phenomena that hydrodynamics should describe but fails to? And what about the phenomena that hydrodynamics shouldn’t describe, but does?

Oct 12, 2023 @ 4:00pm Central in Stevenson 4327; reception beforehand at 3:30pm in Stevenson 6333

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Pavel Kovtun is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria.