Speaker: Harvey Meyer (MIT)

Title: Computing the Transport Coefficients of the QGP on the Lattice

Abstract:
RHIC has shown that the system formed in heavy ion collisions behaves
like a fluid with very small shear viscosity. It is therefore of primary interest
to calculate the transport coefficients of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) from
first principles. I present a recent lattice calculation of the shear and bulk
viscosity of SU(3) pure gauge theory in the deconfined phase. I then discuss
new strategies to improve the extraction of real-time physics from Euclidean
correlators, and show results for several steps that are part of these new strategies.