Wednesday Colloquia

Hydrodynamics and Gravity

by Prof. Shiraz Minwalla (DTP, TIFR, Mumbai)

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG-66 )
TIFR, Mumbai
Description
In this talk I will review the map between asymptocally anti de Sitter 
gravity and hydrodynamics. I will then explore the constraints on the 
equations of hydrodynamics and superfluid hydrodynamics from the requirement of compatibility of these equations with a positive divergence entropy current and speculate on possible implications of the hydrodynamical constraints for the derivative expansion of gravity.