A Course on AdS/CFT (2013)

This is a PhD level course, designed for second year PhD students in Theoretical High Energy Physics (HEP-TH) area and assumes a background knowledge of Quantum Field Theory at the level of Peskin-Schroder book and General Relativity. It would be great if the audience are already familiar with basics of CFT’s and black hole physics.

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                                               Topics to be discussed in the course

1. AdS/CFT, a historical view on its stringy perspective.
2. AdS/CFT, formal statement, establishing the duality.
3. AdS/CFT, a tool for strongly coupled QFTs.
4. AdS/CFT, a tool for studying quantum gravity, discussing in brief  the general picture AdS/CFT has to offer for quantum gravity, quantum spacetime and quantum aspects of black holes.