Foundational aspects of relativistic hydrodynamics
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Main Topics:
- Transitions to hydrodynamics and thermalization at strong and weak coupling
- (non)convergence of Chapman-Enskog and hydrodynamic gradient expansions
- Hydrodynamic attractors
- non-equilibrium hydrodynamics, in particular for small collision systems
- Fluctuations and long-time tails
- Analytic structure of hydrodynamic correlation functions at strong and weak coupling
- Extended theories of relativistic hydrodynamics (anisotropic and transient hydrodynamics)
