Instructors: Lilia Anguelova and Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute
Type: Guelph Waterloo Physics Institute & University of Waterloo credit course
Dates: October 27 - December 15, 2011 and January 2 - January 30, 2012. Mondays 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm and Thursdays 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm.

This would be a course for graduate students interested in learning about the AdS/CFT correspondence or gauge/gravity duality. This technique has emerged in the past decade as one of the central tools in modern superstring theory.

The topics covered include: D3-branes (at weak and strong coupling); N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory; large-N counting; conformal invariance in field theory; geometry of anti-de Sitter space; field/operator dictionary; computation to correlators; Wilson loops; modelling confinement; black hole mechanics; AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory.

Interested students should contact Professor Myers at: rmyers[at]perimeterinstitute.ca