Physics Seminar: After Equilibration

What happens to a system once it has already reached equilibrium? The question starts with black holes: their interior is expected to keep equilibrating long after the system as a whole has settled, a state governed by its surface. Duality points us to the matching quantum system, where the natural question becomes what happens at those long, post-equilibration times. Jorge Kurchan, with Xianyu Cao, proposes that large deviation theory answers it.

Speaker: Jorge Kurchan — statistical physicist, Director of Exceptional Class Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

When: 21 September 2026, 16:00

Where: KSE Campus Obolon, [1.5] Room & online via Zoom