Lectures

 

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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