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A schedule of lectures may be found
here.
***NEW: Audio and video of the lectures may be viewed from
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Below is some additional information about the lectures:
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Abhay Ashtekar
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Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity through Cosmology
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Bibliography available here.
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Max Bañados
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Hamiltonian formalism, Regge-Teitelboim charges and some AdS/CFT applications
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Lecture slides may be found here.
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Alejandro Corichi
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Black holes in loop quantum gravity
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Suggested reading: "Black holes and entropy in loop quantum gravity: An
overview,"
arXiv:0901.1302.
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Scott Dodelson
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Cosmology
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Fay Dowker
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Discreteness, Lorentz Invariance and Locality: Lessons from Causal Set
Theory
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Alberto Güijosa
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Color from Geometry: Some Gauge Theory Applications of AdS/CFT
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Suggested reading: Gubser & Karch, "From gauge-string duality to strong interactions: a
Pedestrian's Guide,"
arXiv:0901.0935,
Mateos, "String Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics,"
arXiv:0709.1523,
Edelstein, Shock & Zoakos, "The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Non-perturbative QCD,"
arXiv:0901.2534.
Lecture slides may be found here.
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Veronika Hubeny
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The Fluid/Gravity correspondence
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Supplemental reading: M.Rangamani, "Gravity & Hydrodynamics: Lectures on the
fluid-gravity correspondence,"
arXiv:0905.4352.
Lecture slides may be found here.
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Laurent Freidel
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Spin foam model of quantum gravity
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Lecture slides for lecture 3 may be found here.
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Clifford Johnson
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Introduction to String Theory
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Suggested reading: "D-Brane Primer"
hep-th/0007170 or the book "D-Branes" (Cambridge
University Press 2003).
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Per Kraus
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Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence
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Carlo Rovelli
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Loop Quantum Gravity
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Supplemental reading: "A new look at loop quantum gravity,"
arXiv:1004.1780.
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Robert Wald
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7/1: Classical Black Holes,
7/2: Black Hole Entropy and Noether Charge,
7/3: Quantum Black Holes, the Generalized Second Law, and the 'Information Paradox'
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Lecture slides may be found here.
Lecture slides may be found here.
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