ITP Miniprogram: Nonequilibrium Quantum Fields
| January 5 to January 22, 1999 |
The three week Miniprogram on Nonequilibrium Quantum Fields will
take place at the Institute for
Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara from
January 5 through January 22, 1999 inclusive. The aim of the program
is to bring together theoretical physicists working in several of the
principal applications of nonequilibrium field theory, in order to
develop a common language and set of tools, emphasizing the
fundamental point of view, rather than the specific phenomenology of
any of the particular applications.
Some of the general theoretical issues which the program is
intended to address are:
 Collective
Excitations and Effective Real Time Field Theories |
| Irreversibility
and Kinetic Theory Approximation to QFT |
| First Principles
Calculation of Transport Properties |
| 1/N Expansion of
the Hierarchy of Real Time Correlation Functions |
| Density Matrix and
the Hamiltonian Description |
| Role of
Deterministic Chaos in the Approach to Equilibrium |
| Quantum
Decoherence and the Classical Limit of QFT |
| Hydrodynamic
Behavior and Nonexponential Long Time Tails |
| Real Time
Renormalization Group |
| Numerical
Methods |
These topics in the general theory of Nonequilibrium Quantum
Fields will be focused on several overlapping applications of current
interest, including:
| Topological
Transition Rates and Electroweak Baryogenesis |
| Quark-Gluon Plasma
and the Chiral Phase Transition of QCD |
| Thermalization and
Reheating in the Early Universe |
Salman Habib
(1-505-667-5265),
Emil Mottola (1-505-667-7646), and
Laurence Yaffe (1-206-543-3902).
The following physicists have accepted our invitation to
participate in the full three week program:
| Jan Ambjorn |
| Daniel Boyanovsky |
| Hector de Vega |
| Ulrich Heinz |
| Richard Holman |
| Edmond Iancu |
| Sergei Khlebnikov |
| Lev Kofman |
| Alexander Krasnitz |
| Jan Smit |
| Dam Son |
| Alexei Starobinskii |
| Igor Tkackev |
A full list of all
Registered Participants is also available. Registration is now
complete and due to space and financial considerations we can no
longer accept new applications.
| Salman Habib / LANL / habib@lanl.gov / revised October 98 |
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