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The HET Group
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WHAT:
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This is a series of informal seminars on the AdS/CFT
correspondence. The subject is an active field of research which emerged
from efforts to build a quantum theory of gravity (string theory) and
has
found surprising applications in strongly coupled systems. I will give a
pedagogical introduction motivating the ideas, developing them and
applying
them to systems of interest (quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions,
condensed matter (superconductors), etc.) over the course of the
semester.
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WHEN:
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Each Wednesday at 1:15 pm
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WHERE:
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Room 405 in Earth & Planetary Sciences Building
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TEXTBOOKS:
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String Theory, Vols. I and II, by Joseph Polchinski,
Cambridge.
D-Branes, by Clifford V. Johnson, Cambridge.
String Theory in a Nutshell, by Elias Kiritsis, Princeton.
A First Course in String Theory, by Barton Zwiebach, Cambridge.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
![Lecture 1](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 1: Path Integral
![Lecture 2](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 2: Schwarzschild Black Hole
![Lecture 3](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 3: Reissner-N\"ordstrom Black Hole
![Lecture 4](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 4: Black Branes from String Theory
![Lecture 5](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 5: Microscopic Calculation of Entropy and Hawking Radiation
![Lecture 6](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 6: AdS/CFT Correspondence
![Lecture 7](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 7: Finite Temperature
![Lecture 8](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 8: Finite Volume and Hawking-Page phase transition
![Lecture 9](icons/bluepin.gif)
Lecture 9: Transport properties
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