Correspondence: The Reith Lectures

Gravity & Hydrodynamics: Lectures on the fluid-gravity correspondence

We discuss recent developments in the hydrodynamic description of strongly coupled conformal field theories using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, we review aspects of the fluid-gravity correspondence which provides a map between a class of inhomogeneous, dynamical, black hole solutions in asymptotically AdS spacetimes and arbitrary fluid flows in the strongly interacting boundary fie...

TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence

This is an introductory review of the AdS/CFT correspondence and of the ideas that led to its formulation. We show how comparison of stacks of D3-branes with corresponding supergravity solutions leads to dualities between conformal large N gauge theories in 4 dimensions and string backgrounds of the form AdS5 ×X5 where X5 is an Einstein manifold. The gauge invariant chiral operators of the fiel...

Lectures

Se p 20 06 Lectures on black holes and the AdS 3 / CFT 2 correspondence

2 We present a detailed discussion of AdS 3 black holes and their connection to two-dimensional conformal field theories via the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our emphasis is on deriving refined versions of black hole partition functions, that include the effect of higher derivative terms in the spacetime action as well as non-perturbative effects. We include background material on gravity in AdS 3 ,...

Plenary Lectures