The duality between gauge fields and strings

This is the website for the course on the duality between gauge fields and strings delivered by Dr Carlos Núñez from Swansea University.

The course will consist of several lectures spread over four consecutive days and will take place at different venues in the JCMB.

Schedule of lectures

1. Tuesday, 1 March 2011
   Introduction to AdS/CFT
   4pm, JCMB Lecture Theatre B (iCal link)
   Videos (.mov): part 1 and part 2
2. Wednesday, 2 March 2011
   Extensions of AdS/CFT
   2pm, JCMB Lecture Theatre A (iCal link)
   Videos (.mov): part 1 and part 2
3. Thursday, 3 March 2011
   Duality for theories of phenomenological interest, I
   10am, JCMB 5215 (iCal link)
   Videos (.mov): part 1 and part 2
4. Friday, 4 March 2011
   Duality for theories of phenomenological interest, II
   3pm, JCMB 6301 (iCal link)
   Videos (.mov): part 1 and part 2
5. Friday, 4 March 2011
   Connecting between different duals
   4:30pm, JCMB 6206 (iCal link)
   Videos (.mov): part 3

Lecture Notes

Thanks to the efforts of Maria Johnstone, Carlos's own lecture notes are now available (PDF scan).

References

• Introduction to gauge/gravity duality
  Joseph Polchinski
• TASI Lectures on Emergence of supersymmetry, gauge theory and string in condensed matter systems
  Sung-Sik Lee
• Unquenched flavor in the gauge/gravity correspondence
  Carlos Núñez, Angel Paredes, Alfonso V. Ramallo
• Large \(N\) field theories, string theory and gravity
  Ofer Aharony, Steven S. Gubser, Juan Martín Maldacena, Hirosi Ooguri, Yaron Oz
• TASI 2003 lectures on AdS/CFT
  Juan Martín Maldacena
• Holographic duality with a view toward many-body physics
  John McGreevy
• Supergravity duals of supersymmetric four-dimensional gauge theories
  F. Bigazzi, A.L. Cotrone, M. Petrini, A. Zaffaroni
• Four lectures on the gauge/gravity correspondence
  Matteo Bertolini
• Supersymmetric gauge theories and the AdS/CFT correspondence
  Eric D'Hoker, Daniel Z. Freedman
• Gauge/string duality in confining theories
  José D. Edelstein, Rubén Portugues
• The duality cascade
  Matthew J. Strassler

Sponsors

Partial support for this activity comes from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council via the "String Theory Scotland" Standard Grant ST/G000514/1.