[math-ias] Reminder: PCTS Series Seminar and HET Seminar Today at PU

[Lisa Fleischer]

    * *Monday, November 5, 2012
      PCTS Series - Nonequilibrium Physics Strongly Interacting Matter &
      Light
      "Non-equilibrium Coherence in Light-Matter"*
      Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Room 407
      Time: 1:15 PM
      Speaker(s): Jonathan Keeling, St. Andrews University, United Kingdom

    * *Monday, November 5, 2012
      High Energy Theory Seminar
      "Strongly Coupled Electron Systems from Holography and the Birth
      and Collapse of anti-de-Sitter"*
      Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room
      Time: 2:45 PM
      Speaker(s): Koenraad Schalm, University Leiden, Netherlands

      *Description:* The application of the holographic AdS/CFT
      correspondence to condensed matter systems has shown us remarkable
      new insights into strongly coupled quantum matter. It provides a
      novel quantum critical origin of superconductivity that lies
      outside BCS theory; and it is holographically able to describe
      non-Fermi liquids as directly observed in experiments in strongly
      correlated electron systems. In the pursuit of a holographic
      construction as close to a real quantum critical electron system
      as possible, I will discuss how the inherent quantum nature of
      bulk AdS fermions, dual to 1/N corrections in the field theory, is
      essential to capture the correct physics, and show how the descent
      of the strongly coupled fermi state into the novel holographic
      superconductor is described by the collapse of a "star" in
      anti-de-Sitter space.

-- 
Lisa Fleischer
Academic Assistant
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-734-8215
lisa at ias.edu

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