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# Young Researchers Conference - 2006

This event provides an opportunity for top young physicists to enjoy a multidisciplinary conference, and interact with resident scientists. In addition, participants will have an opportunity to learn more about Perimeter Institute.

## Generalizing the Kodama State

Mercredi déc 06, 2006
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## A simplicial path to the quantum Hamiltonian of gravity

Mercredi déc 06, 2006
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## Quantum Gravity from one-loop Super-Yang-Mills Theory

Mercredi déc 06, 2006
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It has been conjectured that maximally supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory is dual to a String Theory on asymptotically AdS_5 times S^5 backgrounds. This is known as the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this talk I will show how using one-loop calculations in the gauge theory, one can study the emergence of the dual String Theory. We will see, quite explicitly, the emergence of closed strings, D-branes, open strings and space-time itself. This is done in a reduced sector (SU(2) sector), where the gauge theory can be written as Matrix Quantum Mechanics.

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## OPE of Giant Wilson loops from D-branes and Matrix Models

Mercredi déc 06, 2006
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In the context of AdS/CFT, it has been recently proposed that Wilson loops in higher representation of the gauge group have a dual description in terms of D-branes in AdS_5xS^5. After reviewing this new dictionary, I will present a computation of correlators between chiral primaries of N=4 SYM and Wilson loops in large symmetric and antisymmetric representations. These correlators can be computed both in supergravity using D-branes and in gauge theory from a matrix model, with precise agreement between the two sides

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## Children's Drawings From Seiberg-Witten Curves

Mercredi déc 06, 2006
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## Similarities Between Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge and Gravity Theories

Mardi déc 05, 2006

Due to recent, as well as less recent, work on perturbative N=8 supergravity and N=4 super Yang-Mills in 4d, the two theories are appearing more and more closely related. These relations include similar \"MHV-rule\" constructions, one-loop structure and, perhaps, the same UV behavior, namely UV finiteness. This talk introduces some of the methods to study the relations.

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## The Arrow of Time, Black Holes, and Quantum Mixing of Large N Yang-Mills Theories

Mardi déc 05, 2006

Quantum gravity in an AdS space-time is described by an SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a sphere, a bounded many-body system. We argue that in the high temperature phase the theory is intrinsically non-perturbative in the large N limit. At any nonzero value of the \\\'t Hooft coupling $lambda$, an exponentially large (in N^2) number of free theory states of wide energy range (of order N) mix under the interaction. As a result the planar perturbation theory breaks down.

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## Twistor-Inspired Approach to QCD and Supergravity

Mardi déc 05, 2006

We will discuss applications of the recently developed twistor-space methods in perturbative quantum field-theory. The two central topics will be 1) the unitarity bootstrap approach to hard scattering amplitudes in QCD and 2) the analysis of the UV structure of N=8 supergravity.

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## Nongeometric Flux Compactifications

Mardi déc 05, 2006
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## Superluminal - scalar fields and cosmology

Mardi déc 05, 2006
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