"Colloquium Lecture: New Results on Second-Order Phase Transitions and Conformal Field Theories"

Date: 
Mon, 22/12/201412:00-13:30
Location: 
Levin building, Lecture Hall No. 8
Lecturer: Dr. Zohar Komargodski
Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract:
We review some recent surprising progress on
the classic problem of characterizing second-
order phase transitions. There are new general
results about critical exponents, a better
understanding of what happens when relevant
operators are turned on, and a new powerful
numerical technique that does not require a
lattice formulation of the theory.