Nuclear Physics Colloquium

Location:  Institute  of  Theoretical Physics, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, Serminar Room PHYS 2.116
Time: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 4:30-5:30pm (plus 10min for discussion)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de

Dynamics of holographic thermalization at strong and intermediate coupling

Aleksi Vuorinen (University of Helsinki)

I will discuss recent progress in the holographic description of the thermalization dynamics taking place in heavy ion collisions. Particular emphasis will be placed on attempts to go beyond the usual limits of infinite coupling and exact conformal symmetry, inherent in the supergravity dual of $N=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory. In particular, I will argue that taking into account strong coupling corrections to the dynamics of the system may take its thermalization pattern from the usual top-down limit towards bottom-up behavior.