String Theory

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SES #	TOPICS
1	What you need to know about string theory
2	D3-branes at small and large coupling
3	AdS/CFT from scratch, no strings
4	What holds up the throat?
5	How to defend yourself from a supersymmetric field theory
6	About the N = 4 SYM theory
7	Big picture of correspondence; strings and strong interactions
8	’t Hooft counting
9	Scale and conformal invariance in field theory
10	CFT in D > 2 (cont.)
11	Geometry of AdS
12	Geometry of AdS (cont.); Poincaré patch; wave equation in AdS
13	Masses of fields and dimensions of operators; BF-allowed tachyons
14	How to compute two-point correlators of scalar operators
15	Preview of real-time issues; two-point functions in momentum space (cont.); more on low-mass2 fields in AdS
16	Three-point functions, anomalies; expectation values
17	Wilson loops
18	Wilson loops (cont.)
19	Pointlike probes of the bulk; Baryons and branes in AdS; ‘Non-spherical horizons’
20	Brief survey of other examples of the correspondence (M2, M5, D1-D5, Dp, branes at singularities); a model of confinement
21	Confinement (cont.): how to measure the spectrum, proof of mass gap
22	Black hole mechanics, classical and quantum
23	AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory; equation of state, free energy and stress tensor
24	Hawking effect for interacting field theories and BH thermodynamics
25	AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory: Polyakov-Susskind loop, screening, quasinormal modes, Hawking-page transition