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The description of strongly coupled systems presents a challenge for theoretical physics, since usual weak-coupling methods based upon perturbation theory typically fail. Therefore, new tools are required to describe strongly interacting quantum matter, like the quark gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions or cold fermionic atoms at unitarity. Holographic correspondences between gravity theories and quantum field theories can provide such tools. I review basic aspects of holography and summarize our recent results in flat space holography

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Daniel Grumiller, Vienna University of Technology
Seminar Room of the Institute of Physics II (R201)
Contact: Thomas Nattermann