Vyacheslav "Slava" Rychkov (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette and ENS, Paris):

Vyacheslav
11/04

11. April 2019. 15:00 - 16:00

ELTE Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, 0.81 (Ortvay lecture hall)

04/11

2019. April 11. 15:00 - 16:00

ELTE Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, 0.81 (Ortvay lecture hall)


Renormalization Group and Conformal Bootstrap: Friends or Foes?

Abstract: For almost 50 years Renormalization Group has been the workhorse of the theory of critical phenomena such as the liquid-gas critical point or the Curie temperature of a ferromagnet (Ising model). In the last 10 years a new method called the Conformal Bootstrap has been making significant progress. We will review the story of this friendly competition, and the main challenges faced by the two approaches.


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