Holography: from gravity to quantum matter

Workshop theme

The study of holographic dualities is currently a broad area of research located at the confluence of several traditionally separate communities of physics and mathematics ranging from QCD, condensed matter, statistical physics and string theory, to numerical relativity and non-linear partial differential equations.

This workshop, which is the launching event of the Isaac Newton Institute programme "Mathematics and Physics of the holographic principle", brings together leading experts in these diverse fields in order to create the critical mass of knowledge and skills necessary for the opening of new research avenues in this problem.

Although the workshop is open to any major development in the field, research lines that stimulate cross-fertilization and push the remit of holographic dualities will be especially highlighted. A sample of topics of interests is given below:

Holographic description of quantum matter, such as quark-gluon plasma, strange metals, Fermi-liquid emergence, topological matter, novel quantum phases
Far from equilibrium dynamics and numerical relativity
Entanglement, quantum information and holography
Condensed matter applications: towards the description of real materials
Novel gravity duals of large N vector and ABJM models

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Timetable

Monday 16th September 2013
08:30 to 08:50	Registration	No Room Required
08:50 to 09:00	Welcome by Christie Marr, Deputy Director of the Institute	No Room Required
09:00 to 09:45	Gary Horowitz University of California, Santa Barbara A simple holographic model of nonlinear conductivity	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Subir Sachdev Harvard University Conformal field theories in a periodic chemical potential	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Zheng-Yu Weng Tsinghua University Mott physics, sign structure, and high-TC superconductivity	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Philip Phillips University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Unparticles and strongly correlated electron matter	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:45	Sean Hartnoll Stanford University Clumping and quantum order: Quantum gravitational dynamics of NUT charge	Room 1
14:45 to 15:15	Joseph Betouras Loughborough University Lifshitz topological transition in interacting Fermi systems	Room 1
15:15 to 15:45	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:45 to 16:15	Oriol Pujolas ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Emergent Lorentz invariance from strong dynamics	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Gabriel Aeppli University College London Quantum states in solids and their sensitivity to spectators and boundary conditions	Room 1
17:00 to 17:30	Andrew Green University College London Out of equilibrium quantum criticality and holography	Room 1
17:30 to 18:30	Wine Reception	No Room Required

Tuesday 17th September 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Frans Pretorius Princeton University Numerical evolution of 5D asymptotically AdS spacetimes	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Gustav Holzegel Imperial College London Stability and instability of asymptotically AdS black holes	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Globally regular instability of 3-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Luis Lehner Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics The "turbulent'' side of gravity, stability and BH behavior	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Andrzej Rostworowski Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Time-Periodic Solutions in an Einstein AdS Massless Scalar Field System	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Norihiro Tanahashi University of Tokyo Horizon instability of an extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black hole	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Wilke van der Schee Universiteit Utrecht From full stopping to transparency in a holographic model of heavy ion collisions	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:30	Hongbao Zhang Vrije Universiteit Brussel A thermal quench induces spatial inhomogeneities in a holographic superconductor	Room 1
16:30 to 17:15	Quantum quenches & holography	Room 1

Wednesday 18th September 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Jerome Gauntlett Imperial College London Spatially modulated phases in holography	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Moshe Rozali University of British Columbia Striped order in AdS/CFT	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Thomas Gasenzer Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Non-thermal fixed points: universality, topology, & turbulence in Bose systems	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Paul Chesler Massachusetts Institute of Technology Holographic turbulence	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:45	Jan de Boer Universiteit van Amsterdam Entanglement entropy in higher spin theories	Room 1
14:45 to 15:30	Shinsei Ryu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Effective field theories for topological insulators via functional bosonization	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:45	Elias Kiritsis Technical University of Crete The IR landscape of holography: Cohesive and fractionalised phases, insulators and bad metals.	Room 1
16:45 to 17:30	Dam Thanh Son University of Chicago Newton-Cartan geometry and the quantum Hall effect	Room 1
19:30 to 22:00	Conference Dinner at St. Catharine's College	No Room Required

Thursday 19th September 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Veronika Hubeny University of Durham Holographic entanglement plateaux	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Christopher Herzog Stony Brook University Exploring the ABJM Plasma	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Frank Verstrate Universiteit Gent Edge theories in tensor network states	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Brian Swingle Harvard University Entanglement, renormalization, and holography	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:45	Matt Headrick Brandeis University What can holographic entanglement entropy teach us about general relativity?	Room 1
14:45 to 15:15	Da-Wei Pang Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Thermodynamics of entanglement entropy for excited states: some non-conformal examples	Room 1
15:15 to 15:45	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:45 to 16:15	Jelle Hartong Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen) A Top-Down Model for Lifshitz Holography	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Shamit Kachru Stanford University Wilsonian and large N approaches to non-Fermi liquids	Room 1

Friday 20th September 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Steve Gubser Princeton University Finite momentum at string endpoints	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Koenraad Schalm Universiteit Leiden Far from equilibrium dynamics in CFTs and holography	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	Room 1
11:00 to 11:45	Laurence Yaffe University of Washington Numerical relativity and far-from-equilibrium dynamics	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Sung-Sik Lee McMaster University Quantum renormalization group and holography	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	Room 1
14:00 to 14:45	Johanna Erdmenger Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München A holographic model of the Kondo effect	Room 1
14:45 to 15:15	Blaise Goutéraux NORDITA Universal scaling properties of holographic cohesive phases	Room 1
15:15 to 15:45	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:45 to 16:15	Hongbao Zhang Vrije Universiteit Brussel Petrov type $I$ Spacetime and Dual Hydrodynamics	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Gordon Semenoff University of British Columbia Quantum hallography	Room 1

Mathematics and physics of the holographic principle

Holography: from gravity to quantum matter

Speakers

Gabriel Aeppli University College London
Joseph Betouras Loughborough University
Paul Chesler Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan de Boer Universiteit van Amsterdam
Johanna Erdmenger Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Thomas Gasenzer Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Jerome Gauntlett Imperial College London
Blaise Goutéraux NORDITA
Andrew Green University College London
Steve Gubser Princeton University
Sean Hartnoll Stanford University
Jelle Hartong Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
Matt Headrick Brandeis University
Christopher Herzog Stony Brook University
Gustav Holzegel Imperial College London
Gary Horowitz University of California, Santa Barbara
Veronika Hubeny University of Durham
Shamit Kachru Stanford University
Elias Kiritsis Technical University of Crete
Sung-Sik Lee McMaster University
Luis Lehner Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Da-Wei Pang Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Philip Phillips University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Frans Pretorius Princeton University
Oriol Pujolas ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Andrzej Rostworowski Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
Moshe Rozali University of British Columbia
Shinsei Ryu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subir Sachdev Harvard University
Koenraad Schalm Universiteit Leiden
Gordon Semenoff University of British Columbia
Dam Thanh Son University of Chicago
Brian Swingle Harvard University
Norihiro Tanahashi University of Tokyo
Wilke van der Schee Universiteit Utrecht
Frank Verstrate Universiteit Gent
Zheng-Yu Weng Tsinghua University
Laurence Yaffe University of Washington
Hongbao Zhang Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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