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Dec 1, 2008 (Monday)
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Colloquium | December 1 | 4:30 p.m. | 1 LeConte HallSpeaker/Performer: Jan Zaanen, Universiteit LeidenSponsor: Physics, Department ofIs there a deeper cause for the dissipative natu...
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Event details: Planckian Dissipation
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Colloquium | December 1 | 4:30 p.m. | 1 LeConte Hall
Speaker/Performer: Jan Zaanen, Universiteit Leiden
Sponsor: Physics, Department of
Is there a deeper cause for the dissipative nature of our world I will report on the convergence that took place recently involving string theory, condensed matter and high energy physics. This revolves around quantum-critical states of matter that produce entropy in a remarkable simple and universal way, following from the habits of quantum black holes according to the string theoretical AdS/CFT correspondence.
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