Gauge Theories, Strings and Cosmology

by Dr Igor Klebanov (Princeton University)

Thursday Aug 10, 2006, 3:00 PM → 5:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

WAT 417 (University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

I review some of the early history of string theory and its relations to strong interactions. Then, D-branes and their gravitational properties are used to motivate the AdS/CFT correspondence. Applications to thermal gauge theory and possible connections to physics at RHIC are then discussed. Extensions of the gauge/gravity duality to confining gauge theories are used to introduce warped throat backgrounds, which may have applications to modeling cosmological inflation.



Organizer: J.G. Learned