
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