Quantum Dynamics at Ghent 2025

3 Feb 2025, 00:00 → 7 Feb 2025, 15:00 Europe/Brussels

Room 1.1, Ghent University - Campus Sterre - S9 (except Wednesday); Room 0.1, Ghent University - Campus Sterre - S8 (Wednesday)

The workshop Quantum Dynamics at Ghent 2025 will bring together a diverse cohort of experts in nonequilibrium physics to discuss the state of the art and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. 

Organizers: Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, and Clemens Werthmann

Monday 3 February

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 Welcome and introduction

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 13:45 From nonequilibrium dynamics to (quantum) gravity with matter

Speaker: Romuald Janik

13:45 → 14:30 Universal coarsening in box-trapped Bose gases far from equilibrium

Speaker: Martin Gazo

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

Tuesday 4 February

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 Quasinormal modes of nonthermal fixed points

Speaker: Matisse de Lescluze

Quantum dynamics 2025.pdf

Quantum dynamics 2025.pptx

11:15 → 12:00 Universal Dynamics and Non-thermal Fixed Points in Quantum Gases

Speaker: Thomas Gasenzer

Slides_QDyn_Gent_TGasenzer.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 13:45 Cutting through the frequency plane to save causality

Speaker: Robbe Brants

saving causality.pdf

13:45 → 14:30 Let’s talk about radiation hydrodynamics

Speaker: Lorenzo Gavassino

Gavassino_Ghent.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 15:45 Geometric interpretation of timelike entanglement entropy

Speaker: Fabio Ori

Slides HTEE Gent.pdf

Wednesday 5 February

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 Measuring entanglement dynamics in tunnel-coupled superfluids

Speaker: Maximilian Prüfer

Pruefer_MeasuringEntanglement.pdf

11:15 → 12:00 Nonrelativistic conformality and hydrodynamics

Speaker: Yusuke Nishida

ghent.pdf

12:20 → 13:50 Conference lunch

Thursday 6 February

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 Fluctuation dynamics: from anharmonic oscillators to relativistic hydrodynamics

Speaker: Xin An

11:15 → 12:00 Let's talk about attractors

Speaker: Michał Spaliński

MS-Ghent.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 13:45 Limiting attractors in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Florian Lindenbauer

talk_lindenbauer_ghent_2025.pdf

13:45 → 14:30 Finding Attractors in Kinetic Theory with the Adiabatic Hydrodynamization Framework

Speaker: Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld

Talk-AH.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 15:45 From far-from-equilibrium to attractors: Initial conditions for nuclear collisions

Speaker: Wilke van der Schee

Talk_Gent2025.pdf

Talk_Gent2025.pptx

15:45 → 16:30 Non-modal effects in holographic models

Speaker: Benjamin Withers

withers_upload.pdf

Friday 7 February

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 Krylov complexity as holographic complexity beyond JT gravity

Speaker: Tim Schuhmann

11:15 → 12:00 Fluctuating hydrodynamics for the SYK chain

Speaker: Mark Mezei

Ghent_workshop_mezei.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break