{"id":12,"date":"2015-12-29T13:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T11:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:57:31","slug":"publications-and-presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Publications and Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A list of my publications and preprints can be found for example on <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/search\/?searchtype=author&amp;query=Ecker%2C+C\">arXiv.org<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/inspirehep.net\/literature?sort=mostrecent&amp;size=25&amp;page=1&amp;q=find%20a%20ecker%2Cc&amp;ui-citation-summary=true\">inspirehep.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Selected Presentations<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Discussion: Constraining Dense QCD with Neutron Stars <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkSeattle2025.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href= \"https:\/\/www.int.washington.edu\/programs-and-workshops\/25-3a\">INT workshop The QCD Critical Point: Are We There Yet?<\/a>, 6 Nov. 2025, Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) University of Washington, Washington, United States<\/li>\n<li><em>Listening to the long ringdown: a novel way to pinpoint the EOS in neutron-star cores <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkQuarkMatter2025.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href= \"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/1334113\/\">Quark Matter 2025<\/a>, 8 Apr. 2025, Frankfurt University, Frankfurt, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>From Ringdowns to Critical Points: Constraining Dense Matter with Neutron Stars <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkParis2025.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/33080\/\">Second Holography and Dense Matter Workshop<\/a>, 18 Sep. 2025, APC Laboratory, Paris, France<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of QCD with Neutron Star Mergers: From Long Ringdown Signals to Prompt Collapse <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkSouthampton2025.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href= \"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/stag\/news\/seminars\/2025\/05\/15-gravity.page\">Gravity Seminar<\/a>, 15 May 2025, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li><em>Listening to the long ringdown: a novel way to pinpoint the EOS in neutron-star cores <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkDPG2025.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href= \"https:\/\/www.dpg-physik.de\/aktivitaeten-und-programme\/tagungen\/fruehjahrstagungen\/2025\">DPG Spring Meeting<\/a>, 1 Apr. 2025, G\u00f6ttingen University, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Probing the Phase Diagram and Equation of State of QCD in Neutron Star Mergers: From Prompt Collapse to Long Ringdown Signals <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkPotsdam2024.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em> Gravity Seminar, 12 Jun. 2024, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Binary neutron star mergers in the prompt and non-prompt collapse regime <\/em> (<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkParis2024.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/33080\/\">Holography and dense matter workshop<\/a>, 12 Jun. 2024, APC Laboratory, Paris, France<\/li>\n<li><em>Listening to the long ringdown: a novel way to pinpoint the EOS in neutron-star cores <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkElements2024.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em> ELEMENTS Conference, 23 Apr. 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of QCD with Neutron Star Mergers in the Prompt and Non-Prompt Collapse Regime <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkHelsinki2024.pdf\">slides<\/a>, <a title=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/unitube.it.helsinki.fi\/unitube\/embed.html?id=621819fb-c411-49d5-ab9f-6c1eb7bdc932\">video<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/seminars\/archive\/seminars-2024\/\">HIP Seminar<\/a>, 11 Apr. 2024, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of QCD with Neutron Star Mergers in the Prompt and Non-Prompt Collapse Regime <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkDPG2024.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href= \"https:\/\/www.dpg-physik.de\/veranstaltungen\/2024\/dpg-fruehjahrstagung-giessen\">DPG Spring Meeting<\/a>, 14 Mar. 2024, Justus-Liebig-University Gie\u00dfen, Gie\u00dfen, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Palaver2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.uni-frankfurt.de\/~mwagner\/palaver_WS23.html\">Palaver Seminar<\/a>, 6 Nov. 2023, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>From DKPI to Neutron Star Research <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DKPIfinal2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/indico.global\/event\/10923\/timetable\/?view=standard_numbered\">Final Event of the Doktoratskolleg Particles and Interactions (DKPI)<\/a>, 28 Sep. 2023, TU-Wien, Vienna, Austria<\/li>\n<li><em>A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkCern2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>TH Cosmo Coffee, 13 Sep. 2023, CERN, Switzerland<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Mergers\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkBadNauheim2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/elements.science\/news\/successful-second-annual-elements-conference-in-bad-nauheim\/\">ELEMENTS Conference<\/a>, 11 Jul. 2023, Bad Nauheim, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Neutronensterne als Labor f\u00fcr dichte Kernmaterie <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkBadhoneff2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpg-physik.de\/veranstaltungen\/2023\/gravitationswellen_astronomie\">DPG-Lehrerfortbildung: Gravitationswellen-Astronomie<\/a>, 28 Jun. 2023, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Bad Honnef, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkMainz2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Theory Palaver, 30 May 2023, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkVienna2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Theory Seminar, 25 May 2023, TU-Wien, Vienna, Austria<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Merger Simulations\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkUtrecht2023.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.nl\/en\/research\/institute-for-theoretical-physics\/events\/string-theory-seminar\/2022-2023\">String Theory Seminar<\/a>, 19 Jan. 2023, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li><em>On the Sound Speed in Neutron Stars <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkCRCMeeting2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/crc-tr211.org\/intern\/meeting1222\">CRC Meeting and Colloquium<\/a>, 14 Dec. 2022, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Mergers\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkPohang2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apctp.org\/theme\/d\/html\/activities\/activities01_read.php?id=1672&amp;page=1\">APCTP focus program: QCD and gauge\/gravity duality<\/a>, 8 Nov. 2022, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea<\/li>\n<li><em>On the Sound Speed in Neutron Stars <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkHelsinki2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.helsinki.fi\/sv\/activities\/from-holography-to-machine-learning\/\">Workshop: From Holography to Machine Learning<\/a>, 25 Oct. 2022, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland<\/li>\n<li><em>Neutronensterne als Labor f\u00fcr dichte Materie\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkTagNaturW2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Tag der Naturwissenschaften, 6 Oct. 2022, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Mergers\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkHoloTube2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>, <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lv3AJtIaRl0\">YouTube<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/holotube\/2022\/09\/19\/september-27-exploring-the-phase-diagram-of-v-qcd-with-neutron-star-mergers-by-christian-ecker\/\">HoloTube: The Applied Holography Webinars Network<\/a>, 27 Sep. 2022, HoloTube Seminar, online<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Mergers\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/talkStarvanger2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/indico2.uis.no\/event\/2\/\">XVth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum Conference<\/a>, 1 Aug. 2022, University of Stavanger, Norway<\/li>\n<li><em>Neutronensterne als Labor f\u00fcr dichte Materie\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/talkPoly2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Interdisziplin\u00e4res Colloquium, 21 Jun. 2022, Polytechnischen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>On the Sound Speed in Neutron Stars <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/talkELEMENTS2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>ELEMENTS Annual Conference, 4 May 2022, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Mergers\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkCRC20220307.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>CRC Retreat, 7 Mar. 2022, online<\/li>\n<li><em>Non-equilibrium steady state formation in 3+1 dimensions\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TalkWuerzburg2021.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Theory Seminar, 22 Jun. 2021, W\u00fcrzburg University, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Compact stars made of holographic QCD matter\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TalkPalaver2020.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.uni-frankfurt.de\/~mwagner\/palaver_WS20.html\">Palaver WS2020\/21<\/a>, 7 Dec. 2020, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Compact stars made of holographic QCD matter\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ecker2020.pdf\">(slides)<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/stag\/news\/seminars\/gravity\/seminar-2020.page\">Gravity Seminar<\/a>, 22 Oct. 2020, University of Southampton, United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>A Holographic Approach to Dense Matter in Neutron Stars <a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Talk_Astro_Coffee.pdf\">(slides)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/astro.uni-frankfurt.de\/astrocoffee\/\">AstroCoffee,<\/a> 14 Jul. 2020, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em><em>Gravitational Waves from Holographic Neutron Star Mergers<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Talk_Amsterdam_2019.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.d-itp.nl\/shared-content\/events\/events\/scientific\/triangle-holography\/2019-oct-25-amsterdam.html\">Holography Triangle Meeting<\/a>, 25 Oct. 2019, University Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li><em><em>Gravitational Waves from Holographic Neutron Star Mergers<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Talk_Cern_2019.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/853954\/\">TH Heavy Ion Coffee<\/a>, 8 Oct. 2019, Cern, Switzerland<\/li>\n<li><em>Lectures on Numerical Holography\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NumHolZwettl2019.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkpi.at\/event\/dkpi-summer-school-2019-zwettl\/\">DKPI Summer School<\/a>, 16 &#8211; 20 Sep. 2019, Zwettl, Austria<\/li>\n<li><em>Gravitational Waves from Holographic Neutron Star Mergers\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/main_1.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/benasque.org\/2019gravity\/\">Gravity-New perspectives from strings and higher dimensions<\/a>, 14 &#8211; 26 Jul. 2019, Benasque, Spain<\/li>\n<li><em>Numerical Holography <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bengalore2019CEfinal.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icts.res.in\/program\/extremeqandg2019\">TIFR ICTS School<\/a>, 1 &#8211; 14 Apr. 2019, Bangalore, India<\/li>\n<li><em>Quantum Null Energy Condition and its (non)saturation in 2d CFTs\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LeidenGroupMeeting2019.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\nLeiden Group meeting<\/em>, 6 Feb. 2019, Leiden, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li><em>Applications of the AdS\/CFT Correspondence <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/UtrechtOct2018.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/utrechtitfstringjournalclub\/home\">Utrecht String Journal Club<\/a>, 10 Oct. 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li><em>Time Evolution of a Semiholographic Glasma <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChristianEckerSantjago2018.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/igfae.usc.es\/holoquark2018\/\">HoloQuark2018<\/a>, 2-5 Jul. 2018, Santiago de Compostela, Spain<\/li>\n<li><em>\u00a0Semi-Holography for Heavy Ion Collisions\u00a0<\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Utrecht2018.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/utrechtitfstringjournalclub\/home\">Utrecht String Journal Club<\/a>, 28 Mar. 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Presentation for 2nd-grade primary school kids (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kolonitz2018.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vskolonitzgasse.schule.wien.at\/\">Primary School Kolonitzgasse<\/a>, 3 Mar. 2018, Vienna, Austria<\/li>\n<li><em>Quantum Null Energy Condition in Far-From-Equilibrium Systems <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Granada2018Ecker.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/iberianstrings2018.ugr.es\/\">Iberian Strings 2018<\/a>, 24-26 Jan. 2018, Granada, Spain<\/li>\n<li><em>Entanglement entropy in shock wave collisions <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads&lt;br \/&gt; \/2016\/10\/Tampere2016.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Meeting on cosmology and particle physics, 29 Sept. 2016, Tampere, Finland<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring nonlocal observables in shock wave collisions <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Helsinki2016pdf.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hip.fi\/seminars\/\">High Energy Physics (HIP) Seminar<\/a>, 27 Sept. 2016, University of Helsinki, Finland<\/li>\n<li><em>Numerical Relativity &amp; AdS\/CFT Correspondence <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Trento2016_Ecker.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/events.unitn.it\/en\/et-eu2016\">Einstein Toolkit EU School and Workshop<\/a>, 13-17 Jun. 2016, University of Trento, Italy<\/li>\n<li><em>Shock Wave Collisions and Entanglement Entropy <\/em>(<a title=\"slides\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dkpi.at\/wp-content\/manual-uploads\/vces2015_talks\/01-fr\/06-Ecker.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkpi.at\/event\/vces-2015\/\">11th Vienna Central European Seminar<\/a>, 27-28 Nov. 2015, University of Vienna, Vienna<\/li>\n<li><em>Entanglement Entropy in Shock Wave Collisions<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/workshops.ift.uam-csic.es\/files\/190\/Ecker.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/workshops.ift.uam-csic.es\/IVPostgraduteMadrid\">IV Postgraduate Meeting on Theoretical Physics<\/a>, 18-20 Nov. 2015, IFT UAM\/CSIC, Madrid<\/li>\n<li><em>Holographic Entanglement Entropy from Numerical Relativity <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.ntua.gr\/corfu2015\/Talks\/christian_ecker@tuwien_ac_at_01.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.ntua.gr\/corfu2015\/sm.html\">Summer School and Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond<\/a>, 1-11 Sep. 2015, Corfu Summer Institute, Corfu<\/li>\n<li><em>Entanglement Entropy and AdS\/CFT<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DK-Kolloquium2015.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\n2nd Doctoral Colloquium, 19 Jan. 2015, ITP TU-Wien, Vienna<\/li>\n<li><em>Numerical Holography, Numerical Relativity &amp; AdS\/CFT <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LunchClub_Talk2014.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/lunch-seminar\/index.WS2014.htm\">Vienna Theory Lunch Seminar<\/a>, 21 Oct. 2014, University of Vienna, Vienna<\/li>\n<li><em>Numerical Relativity in AdS, Holography and Thermalization <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/OePG_Talk2014.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oepg.at\/index.php?page=archive&amp;subpage=meetings&amp;lang=de\">64th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Physical Society<\/a>, 24 Sep. 2014, P\u00f6llau, Austria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Posters<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Probing strong-interaction matter with GW from neutron-star mergers<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CRC_TR_Poster_B09.pdf\">poster<\/a>)<br \/>\nOnsite review of CRC-TR 211 sub-project B09, 16 Jun. 2025, Bielefeld, Germany<\/li>\n<li><em>Entanglement Entropy in Shock Wave Collisions <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Milan2017.pdf\">poster<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/555921\/\">The String Theory Universe &#8211; 22nd European string workshop<\/a>, 20-24 Feb. 2017, Milan, Italy<\/li>\n<li><em>Monitoring Non-Local Observables in Shock-Wave Collisions <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Schladming2016.pdf\">poster<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/physik.uni-graz.at\/schladming2016\/\">54th Schladming Winter School of Theoretical Physics<\/a>, 21-28 Feb. 2016, Schladming, Austria<\/li>\n<li><em>Exploring Non-Local Observables in Shock-Wave Collisions <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SantiagoDeCompostela2016.pdf\">poster<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/igfae.usc.es\/~numhol2016\/\">NumHol2016<\/a>, 27 Jun.-1 Jul. 2016, Santiago de Compostela, Spain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>PhD Thesis<\/h2>\n<p>My thesis &#8222;<em>Entanglement Entropy from Numerical Holography&#8220; <\/em> is also available on arXiv.org [<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1809.05529.pdf\">arXiv:1809.05529<\/a>].<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shooting method for pure AdS and AdS-Schwarzschild (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shooting.nb_.tar.gz\">Shooting.nb_.tar.gz<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Relaxation method for AdS-Vaidya (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShockWavesEE.tar.gz\">ShockWavesEE.tar.gz<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematica file I used to generate the illustrations in my thesis (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Illustrations.nb_.tar.gz\">Illustrations.nb_.tar.gz<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematica files of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AppendixD.nb_.tar.gz\">Appendix D<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AppendixE.nb_.tar.gz\">Appendix E<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AppendixF.nb_.tar.gz\">Appendix F<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As part of his <a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Diplomarbeit_digital_22032016.pdf\">master<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2009.07040.pdf\">PhD thesis<\/a> Philipp Stanzer made major contributions to the development of the relaxation code.<\/p>\n<h2>Master Thesis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Continuous-Time Quantum Monte Carlo <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/christianecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/thesis_130613.pdf\">thesis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/prezi.com\/p-nhabk6ymer\/diploma-thesis\/\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications A list of my publications and preprints can be found for example on arXiv.org or inspirehep.net. Selected Presentations Discussion: Constraining Dense QCD with Neutron Stars (slides) INT workshop The QCD Critical Point: Are We There Yet?, 6 Nov. 2025, Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) University of Washington, Washington, United States Listening to the long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}