NEARLY PERFECT FLUIDS

The Workshop aims at advancing our knowledge of the physics of nearly perfect liquids. It has recently been recognized that the ability of fluids to flow frictionless is limited by fundamental quantum effects; but the precise form and the absolute nature of this limitation is a conjecture. All material substances known until recently were far away from the conjectured universal bound; only during the present decade has matter (quark matter and ultra-cold atoms) been discovered and studied that approaches it. It is not fully understood whether a common mechanism is at work in all instances or whether there are several distinct paths leading to perfect fluidity. While superstring theory has furnished a tractable theoretical model of such a fluid, it remains unclear how it relates to the two materials discovered in the laboratory. By bringing experts in the different areas together for an intense exchange of ideas, the Workshop will help to develop new ideas for answers to these wide-ranging questions at a forefront area in the physical sciences.

• Quark-Gluon Plasma Transport Theory


• Relativistic Hydrodynamics


• AdS/CFT Correspondence


• KSS Bound Conjecture


• Condensed Fermionic Atoms


• *Strongly coupled warm plasmas


• *Many-Body Systems in the Unitary Limit