HEP Journal Club

Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Contact: Amitabh Virmani, virmani@server with server = physics.ucsb.edu
Office:6228, Broida Hall  Phone:(805)-893-8689

Welcome to the HEP Journal Club (JC) home page. The HEP Journal Club meets every Wednesday at 4:00 pm in the KITP small seminar room. JC presents lectures of general interest to graduate students covering a wide range of topics including (but not limited to) string theory, high energy theory and phenomenology, gravity and mathematical physics. Feel free to suggest topics, articles, or speakers, or to volunteer to help present a talk. Please send comments via email to virmani "at" physics.ucsb.edu.

First year students are particularly encouraged to attend and give talks!

This quarter we will have lectures on the general theme of AdS/CFT. We are planning to cover a significant part of the D'Hoker and Freedman's review supplemented with some material from the original AdS/CFT papers like hep-th/9711200, hep-th/9802150, and hep-th/9802109. Towards the end of the quarter we will be discussing some thermal aspects of the dualities.

Activities:

  • Jan 10: Organizational Meeting.

  • Jan 17: Daniel Balick : Basics of N=1 supersymmetry.

  • Jan 24: Mike Gary : N=4 Super Yang Mills theory.

  • Jan 31: Charlie Beil : Aspects of supergravity and string theory (chapter 4 from the review)

  • Feb 07: Aaron Amsel: AdS spaces and the Fefferman-Graham expansion

  • Feb 14: Richard Eager : The AdS/CFT correspondence

  • Feb 21: Jorge Rocha: AdS/CFT correlation functions - I

  • Feb 28: Peter Ouyang: AdS/CFT correlation functions - II

  • Mar 07: Matt Roberts: Thermal AdS/CFT

  • Mar 14: Amitabh Virmani : Lorentzian AdS/CFT

  • Mar 21: Sam Vazquez: non-AdS/non-CFT correspondences

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    Last Updated on Jan 16, 2007.

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