The How and Why of the Dynamical Renormalization Group illustrated via the KPZ equation - Higgs Special Lecture 2
The How and Why of the Dynamical Renormalization Group illustrated via the KPZ equation - Higgs Special Lecture 2
- Event time: 1:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 27th July 2023
- Speaker: John Toner (University of Oregon)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The Renormalization Group (RG) is not only one of the most powerful tools of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, but it arguably provides the answer to Einstein's famous puzzle: "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle." . In this series of two lectures, I will illustrate the how and why of the Dynamical renormalization Group (DRG) by explaining its application to one of the most important problems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: the KPZ equation. I'll also discuss recent applications of the KPZ equation to Active Matter.
Note: Notes for these lectures - taken from a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book about Active Matter - will be available upon request (just -email John Toner at jjt [at] uoregon.edu).
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