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302. Dynamical black holes & expanding plasmas
Pau Figueras, research associate at the Department of Mathematical Sciences in Durham University, works on black hole solutions (and their relatives) in string theory. Dmitry.
The AdS/CFT correspondence has over the years played an invaluable role in providing insight into the dynamics of strongly coupled gauge theories. An important application of the correspondence has been to understand the holographic description of hydrodynamic properties of field theories. This can be used to understand qualitative features of the Quark-Gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions. Current theoretical understanding of this system is that subsequent to rapid thermalization, the system evolves as an almost ideal fluid, expanding rapidly away from the central collision region. The evolution in this regime has been well described by the so called Bjorken flow [1].
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