Effective Field Theories for Hydrodynamics

This workshop is part of the Bernoulli Center programme at EPFL, to be held from 15 to 19 December 2025.

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in recasting hydrodynamics as a modern effective field theory (EFT), encompassing both quantum and statistical effects. This has required, in turn, advances in our understanding of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, which is necessary to study out-of-equilibrium systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together leading experts to arrive at a synthesis of these recent results and reconcile different approaches in a unique framework.

Recordings :

Monday

Alexandre Abanov – Hydrodynamics with anomalies
Andrea Cappelli – Path-integral derivation of Euler hydrodynamics with anomalies
Piotr Surówka – Nonequilibrium charge-vortex duality

Tuesday

Andrew Lucas – Hydrodynamics from strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking
Andrew Gomes – Coset Insights into Hydrodynamic Effective Theory
Luca Delacrétaz – EFT for out-of-time ordered transport
Michael Landry – Chimeric states of matter: Meissner effect without superconductivity

Wednesday

Mukund Rangamani – AdS black holes and thermal correlators
Filippo Nardi – Conformal Collider Physics at Large Charge
Petar Tadic – Quantum dynamics of perfect fluids (introduction by Walter Goldberger)

Thursday

Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva – New Horizon symmetries, hydrodynamics and Chaos
Sergey Sibiryakov – Brownian motion of a rigid body: an EFT perspective
Dam T. Son – Symmetries and low-energy dynamics of rotating BECs

Friday

Camille Aron – Non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems via symmetry breaking
Sergei Dubovsky

Start date & time

15/12/2025

End date & time

19/12/2025

Organisers

Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University
Riccardo Penco, Carnegie Mellon University
Riccardo Rattazzi, EPFL
Andrew Wesley Gomes, EPFL

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