Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theory and Nuclear Reactions
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Astro-Math Building
Abstract
Conformal symmetry plays an important role in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. A nonrelativistic version of the conformal symmetry, also called Schrödinger symmetry, is approximately realized in various physical systems, including neutrons in nuclear physics and ultracold atoms. Nonrelativistic conformal field theories realize Schrödinger symmetry and possess many interesting properties. After reviewing some facts about nonrelativistic conformal field theory, we describe how it can be applied to the physics of nuclear reactions with several neutrons in the final state.
Biography
Dam Thanh Son is a Vietnamese theoretical physicist working in quantum chromodynamics, applications of string theory and many-body physics. He was a postdoc at the University of Washington from 1995 to 1997, and the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he was a professor at Columbia University and a RIKEN-BNL fellow. In 2002, he moved to Seattle as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Nuclear Theory and a professor in the Physics Department, University of Washington. In 2012, he back university professor at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. His many awards include the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.