Non Equilibrium, Holography and Hydrodynamics

Panelists Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria), Michal Heller (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Postdam), Paolo Glorioso (Stanford), Ben Withers (Southampton University) will discuss about Hydrodynamics, Out-of-Equilibrium Physics and Holography.

 In the recent two decades, hydrodynamics has been systematically studied as a low energy effective field theory (EFT), which is an expansion into operators and their derivatives. This EFT has been extended in many directions by: including the effect of interactions, examining the convergence of its dispersion relations, re-summing the derivative expansion, connecting it to gravity, pushing it forward to far from equilibrium situations, establishing its causality and stability conditions, and deriving it from a generating functional. In this panel discussion, with four experts we assess the status and prospects of this field.