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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Elementary Particle Physics,Theoretical Physics |
| Keywords | non-equilibrium dynamics, quark-gluon plasma, AdS/CFT, topological effects in QCD, quantum field theory |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Seattle |
| Institution | University of Washington |
| Institute | Department of Physics |
| Homepage | http://www.phys.washington.edu/users/lgy/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Andreas Schäfer | Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2014 |
Programme(s)
| 2013 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Yaffe is a world-leading expert in the field of fundamental particle physics. His recent work on non-equilibrium and thermalisation from shock wave collisions in gauge/gravity duality has created important new links between non-equilibrium field theory and time-dependent solutions of general relativity and has direct applications to the physics of the quark-gluon plasma. The AdS/CFT duality will be at the center of Professor Yaffe's work in Germany. In particular, he will calculate the time it takes in high-energy heavy ion collisions to reach approximate hydrodynamic behaviour. |