Hydrodynamics Across the Scales

April 26 - 28, 2019
The University of Chicago - Physics Research Center

Hosted by: The Enrico Fermi Institute

Organized by: Paolo Glorioso, Andrey Gromov, Dam Thanh Son, Vincenzo Vitelli

In recent years hydrodynamics has seen a resurgence of interest both in applications to new problems and in deeper theoretical understanding of the very foundations of the subject. This renewed interest encompasses fields from soft condensed matter to high energy physics.

Hydrodynamics has been used to describe an extremely wide range phenomena:  from the formation of cyclones in the atmosphere to the mechanism of flocking, from the motion of electrons through a (super)conductor to the dynamics of quark-gluon plasma, from black holes to quantum chaos.

The workshop is designed to introduce the participants to the most challenging problems in a variety of fields that use hydrodynamics as a main tool of research. The workshop will bring together experts across the following areas of physics: soft and hard condensed matter, nuclear physics, high energy physics, astrophysics.  The workshop will be hosted by the Enrico Fermi Institute in the new Physics Research Center on campus.

Alexander Abanov (Stony Brook)
Cheng Chin (UChicago)
William East (Perimeter)
Greg Eyink (Johns Hopkins)
Kin Chung Fong (Raytheon BBN Technologies)
Nigel Goldenfeld (UIUC)
Samuel Gralla (University of Arizona)
William Irvine (UChicago)
Nitin Kumar (UChicago)
Leonid Levitov (MIT)
Hong Liu (MIT)
Brad Marston (Brown)
Sid Nagel (UChicago)
Anton Souslov (University of Bath)
Peter Steinberg (BNL)
Misha Stephanov (UIC)
Derek Teaney (Stony Brook)
Paul Wiegmann (UChicago)

Friday, April 26

8:30-9:15

Breakfast

9:15-9:30

Welcome and Introductions
(video)

9:30-10:15

Hydrodynamics, quantum sensor, and the search of dark matter
(video)
Kin Chung Fong (Raytheon BBN Technologies)

10:15-11:00

Odd fluid dynamics
(video)
Alexander Abanov (Stony Brook)

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:15

Fluctuations, dissipation and transitional phenomena in turbulent pipe flow
(video)
Nigel Goldenfeld (UIUC)

12:15-1:00

Odd elasticity
(video)
Vincenzo Vitelli (UChicago)

1:00-2:30

Lunch

2:30-3:15

Quantization of hydrodynamics and Gravitational anomaly
(video)
Paul Wiegmann (UChicago)

3:15-4:00

Hydrodynamic and pionic fluctuations in expanding QCD media
(video)
Derek Teaney (Stony Brook)

4:00-4:30

Coffee break

4:30-5:15

Observation of Fermion-Mediated Interactions Between Bosonic Atoms
(video)
Cheng Chin (UChicago)

Saturday

8:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-9:45

Impact and Intrusion
(video)
Sid Nagel (UChicago)

9:45-10:30

Symmetry-protected long-lived excitations and tomographic dynamics in 2D electron fluids
(video)
Leonid Levitov (MIT):

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:45

Quantum hydrodynamics for quantum many-body chaos
(video)
Hong Liu (MIT)

11:45-12:30

Topological waves and odd viscosity in chiral active fluids
(video)
Anton Souslov (University of Bath)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:45

Relativistic Turbulence at High Reynolds Number
(video)
Greg Eyink (Johns Hopkins)

2:45-3:30

Active liquid crystals with tunable elasticity and defect dynamics
(video)
Nitin Kumar (UChicago)

3:30-4:00

Coffee break

4:00-4:45

Fluctuations in Relativistic Fluids and Hydro+
(video)
Misha Stephanov (UIC)

4:45-5:30

Pulsar Magnetosphere, or: Hydro without Hydro
(video)
Samuel Gralla (University of Arizona)

5:30-7:30

Dinner

Sunday

9:00-9:30

Breakfast

9:30-10:15

Topological Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
(video)
Brad Marston (Brown)

10:15-11:00

The free surface flows of a colloidal chiral fluid and odd rheology
William Irvine (UChicago)

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:15

Hydrodynamics on Dynamical Spacetime
(video)
William East (Perimeter)

12:15-1:00

Evidence for hydrodynamics at hadron colliders
(video)
Peter Steinberg (BNL)

Workshop Location

University of Chicago - Physics Research Center
933 East 56th Street
Chicago IL 60637

Parking

The Campus North (Ellis) Parking Garage is located approximately one block north of the Physics Research Center. Click here for current parking rates.

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Chicago, IL 60615
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