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Turbulence and Field Theory

Friday, March 5, 2021
10:00 AM -
3:30 PM EST


Turbulence is a state of a nonlinear system in which energy is distributed over many degrees of freedom, in a fashion which strongly deviates from equilibrium, exhibiting chaos in both space and time. Understanding turbulence is of immense theoretical and practical importance. In this symposium we explore some of the recent connections between turbulence and the tools and problems in high energy physics: turbulent cascades in heavy ion collisions, mutual information in turbulence, and string theory and vortex sheets.

10:00 - 11:30
Information theory and Fibonacci turbulence”
Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute
abstract | slides | video

12:00 - 1:30
Turbulence in high energy physics”
Sören Schlichting, Bielefeld University
slides | video

2:00 - 3:30
String/field duality in turbulence”
Alexander Migdal, NYU
abstract | slides | video

This symposium is accompanied by a tutorial aimed at advanced undergraduate and early graduate students. Please visit itsatcuny.org/forstudents to register.


Organizers:
Sebastian Franco, City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Kabat, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Vladimir Rosenhaus, Institute for Advanced Study and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Later Event: March 12
Neural dynamics across scales