Seminars & Lectures
| * TITLE | [JRG Seminar] Introduction to AdS/CFT Correspondence and String Theory | ||||||
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| * DATE / TIME | 2009-02-12, 1pm | ||||||
| * PLACE | 503 Hogil Memorial Bldg., APCTP Headquarters,POSTECH, Pohang | ||||||
| * ABSTRACT | |||||||
| I will give a very introductory lecture on AdS/CFT correspondence to those who are not familiar to superstring theory. Any knowledge on superstring theory is not requested to the audience. First, I will show you a concrete example within the framework of classical field theory in which some complicated computation can be easily evaluated just by changing the vacuum. Then, I will generalize this idea into string theory with necessary explanations on string theory. The change of the vacuum in string theory is change of the geometry: this is why some complicated computation on a flat spacetime can be easier on a curved spacetime. I hope that the audience catches the basic idea on AdS/CFT and understands that AdS/CFT correspondence is never a magic. | |||||||
