Title: Thermodynamics of the spin-polarized unitary Fermi gas Abstract: The unitary Fermi gas, situated right in the middle of the crossover between Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluidity and Bose-Einstein condensation, is one of the most intensely studied many-body system in recent years. However, its strongly-correlated nature renders a theoretical treatment challenging. While the spin-balanced scenario is accessible with…

Title: Anyonic particle-vortex statistics and the nature of dense quark matter Abstract: I discuss the recent theoretical observation of Z_3 -valued particle-vortex braiding phases in high-density quark matter. Certain mesonic and baryonic excitations, in the presence of a superfluid vortex, have orbital angular momentum quantized in units of 1/3. Such non-local topological features can distinguish phases whose…

Institut Laue-Langevin
A New Method to Detect Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations with Very Efficient Use of Cold Neutron Beams
Host: Albert Young

Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Towards Explicit States in a Sigma Model
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Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Exploring the Inner Structure of the Nucleon Using QCD Factorization Theorems
Host: Chueng Ji

Title: Modeling the Initial Conditions of Heavy Ion Collisions Abstract: Heavy ion collisions are a topic of intense research due to the fact that is is one of the few situations in nature where a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) can form. Theoretical studies of these are complicated by the fact that at various stages of…