On March 25th, the IFT held a new colloquium delivered by Professor Misha A. Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago), titled “QCD critical point and the predictable randomness of relativistic fluids”.
The talk focused on the experimental search for the QCD critical point, one of the key open questions in the study of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. This critical point is expected to signal a phase transition between different states of matter, such as the quark-gluon plasma and hadronic matter.
Stephanov discussed the role of critical fluctuations and how they may be observed in heavy-ion collision experiments. He also explored the behavior of relativistic fluids and the notion of “predictable randomness” arising from their dynamics, providing theoretical tools to interpret experimental signatures.
