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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium: Viscosity\, Quark Gluon Plasma\, and String T
 heory
CREATED:20090630T120000Z
DESCRIPTION:Viscosity is a very old concept that was introduced to physic
 s by Navier in the 19th century. However\, in strongly coupled systems v
 iscosity is extremely difficult to compute ab initio. In this talk I wil
 l describe some recent surprising developments in string theory that wil
 l allow one to compute the viscosity for a class of strongly interacting
  fluids not too dissimilar to the quark gluon plasma. I will describe ef
 forts to measure the viscosity and other physical properties of the quar
 k gluon plasma at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
LAST-MODIFIED:20091112T130000Z
LOCATION:141 Loomis
CATEGORIES:Physics Colloquium
CONTACT:Martha Alwes 217-265-5312
ORGANIZER:malwes@illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1968?key=2000010120000101120535
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