1) Holography from the SYK Model (Robert de Mello Koch)
Suggested background reading:
2) Penrose Diagrams (Kevin Goldstein)
Suggested background reading: Any introductory text on General Relativity
3) Giant gravitons - the gravity view (Shinji Hirano)
Suggested background reading:
4) The vacuum of N=1 theories in four dimensions (Vishnu Jejjala)
Suggested background reading: P. Argyres, "An introduction to global supersymmetry",
http://homepages.uc.edu/~argyrepc/cu661-gr-SUSY/susy2001.pdf
The lecture notes are now available here.
5) From Statistical Models to CFT (Konstantinos Zoubos)
Suggested background reading: P. Ginsparg, "Applied Conformal Field Theory",
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9108028
or any other introductory text on CFT. Revising the Ising model from statistical mechanics is highly recommended.
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