Non-Equilibrium and String Theory Workshop Program

# 340 West Hall

Organizers: Djordje Minic, Rob Leigh, Leo Pando Zayas and Diana Vaman

Saturday, October 20th Speaker and Title
9:00-9:45 am Martin Kruczenski (Purdue)
  "Black hole formation in AdS and thermalization on the boundary " hep-th/9905227, hep-th/9912209
9:45-10:30 am Alex Buchel (Perimeter)
  "Quantum quenches in strongly coupled systems "
11:00-11:45 am Pallab Basu (Kentucky)
  "Classical dynamics of a holographic scalar field"
11:45-12:30 pm Di-Lun Yang, (Duke)
  "Jet Quenching of Light Probes in Non-Equilibrium Strongly Coupled Plasmas"
2:30-3:15 pm Julian Sonner (MIT)
  "Dynamics of Broken Symmetry"
3:15-4:30 pm

Sergey Khlebnikov (Purdue)

  "Non-equilibrium superconductivity and string theory"
5:00-5:45 pm

Omid Saremi (Berkeley)

  “Disordered AdS/CFT and Random Matrix Theory”
5:45-6:30 pm Edgar Shaghoulian (Stanford)
  "Multicentered black holes as glassy systems"
Sunday, October 21st Speaker and Title
9:00-9:45 am Henrique P. de Oliveira (UERJ, Brazil)
  "A Kolmogorov-Zakharov Spectrum in AdS Gravitational Collapse"
9:45-10:30 am

Hans Bantilan (Princeton)

  "Towards an Asymptotically AdS Description of Heavy Ion Collisions"
10:30-11:00 am Closing Remarks