Todd Springer
Research Fellow
352 Tate, 624-2327, email springer @ physics.umn.edu Download curriculum vitae
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I am currently working on finishing my Ph.D. here at Minnesota under the supervision of Prof. Kapusta in the Nuclear Theory group.
In a previous research project, I investigated the formation of small black holes in the early universe, a few microseconds after the Big Bang.
My current line of research involves attempting to describe collective properties of the 'quark-gluon plasma', a state of matter created in the Relativistic Heave Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Labs. I use gauge/gravity duality techniques to perform these calculations; these are based on the conjecture that a strongly interacting field theory may be described by a 'dual' gravity theory in one extra space-time dimension.
Selected Publications
T. Springer, Second order hydrodynamics for a special class of gravity duals, Phys Rev. D
T. Springer, Sound Mode Hydrodynamics from Bulk Scalar Fields, Phys. Rev. D
J.I. Kapusta, T. Springer, Shear transport coefficients from gauge/gravity correspondence, Phys. Rev. D
J.I. Kapusta, T. Springer, Cosmological Black Hole Formation due to QCD and Electroweak Phase Transitions,
Education
Ph.D. - University of Minnesota (2009 - Expected)