SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READING FOR THE PiTP PROGRAM ON APPLICATIONS OF STRING
THEORY:
Background references for the lectures presented by
NIKLAS BEISERT are:
J. Plefka, "Spinning
Strings and Integrable Spin Chains in the AdS/CFT Correspondence,"
hep-th/0507136
A. A. Tseytlin, "Spinning
Strings and AdS/CFT Duality," hep-th/0311139
K. Zarembo, "Semiclassical
Bethe Ansatz and AdS/CFT," hep-th/0411191
L. D. Faddeev, "How
Algebraic Bethe Ansatz Works for Integrable Model," hep-th/9605187
N. Beisert, "The
Dilatation Operator of N = 4 Super Yang-Mills Theory and
Integrability," hep-th/0407277
N. Beisert, "Higher-Loop
Integrability in N = 4 Gauge Theory," hep-th/0409147
A. A. Tseytlin, "Semiclassical
Strings and AdS/CFT," hep-th/0409296
A. V. Belitsky, V. M.
Braun, A. S. Gorsky and G. P. Korchemsky, "Integrability in QCD
and Beyond," hep-th/0407232
N. Beisert, C.
Kristjansen and M. Staudacher, "The Dilatation Operator of Conformal N
=
4 Super Yang-Mills Theory," hep-th/0303060
I. Bena, J. Polchinski
and R. Roiban, "Hidden Symmetries of the AdS5 x
S5 Superstring," hep-th/0305116
N. Beisert, V. A. Kazakov,
K. Sakai and K. Zarembo, "The Algebraic Curve of Classical
Superstrings on AdS5 x S5," hep-th/0502226
M. Staudacher, "The
Factorized S-Matrix of CFT/AdS," hep-th/0412188
In addition, please click here to see a draft outline for
Niklas Beisert's lectures.
Background reference for the lectures presented by
MIRJAM CVETIC is:
R. Blumenhagen, M. Cvetic, P. Langacker and G.
Shiu, "Toward Realistic Intersecting D-Brane Models,'' hep-th/0502005
Background references for the lectures presented by
STEVEN GUBSER are:
S. S. Gubser, "Drag Force in AdS/CFT,''
hep-th/0605182
J. J. Friess, S. S. Gubser and G. Michalogiorgakis, "Dissipation
from a Heavy Quark Moving Through N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills Plasma,''
hep-th/0605292
These lectures will focus on the recent work on
energy loss from heavy quarks moving through finite temperature N=4
SYM
plasma.
Background references for the lectures presented by
KEN INTRILIGATOR are:
K. A. Intriligator and N. Seiberg, "Lectures
on Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electric-Magnetic Duality," hep-th/9509066
E. Poppitz and S. P. Trivedi, "Dynamical
Supersymmetry Breaking," hep-th/9803107
K. Intriligator, N. Seiberg and D. Shih, "Dynamical
SUSY Breaking in Meta-Stable Vacua," hep-th/0602239
Background references for the lectures presented by
NISSAN ITZHAKI are:
L.F. Abbott, "A Mechanism For Reducing The Value Of The
Cosmological Constant," Phys.Lett.B150:427,1985
J. Polchinski, "The Cosmological Constant and the String
Landscape,''
hep-th/0603249
N. Itzhaki, "A Comment on Technical Naturalness and the
Cosmological Constant,''
hep-th/0604190
Background references for the lectures presented by
SHAMIT KACHRU are:
S. B. Giddings, S. Kachru and J. Polchinski, "Hierarchies
from Fluxes in String Compactifications,''
hep-th/0105097
S. Kachru, R. Kallosh, A. Linde, J. Maldacena, L. McAllister and S. P.
Trivedi, "Towards Inflation in String Theory,''
hep-th/0308055
D-E. Diaconescu, B. Florea, S. Kachru and P. Svrcek, "Gauge-Mediated
Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications,''
hep-th/0512170
Also incorporated in these lectures may be
introductory materials not covered in recent research papers (e.g.
basics of inflation, or basic scales and mediation mechanisms of SUSY breaking).
Background references for the lectures presented by
IGOR KLEBANOV are:
A. Dymarsky, I. R. Klebanov and R. Roiban, "Perturbative
Gauge Theory and Closed String Tachyons,'' hep-th/0509132
I. R. Klebanov and M. J. Strassler, "Supergravity
and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and $\chi$SB-Resolution
of Naked Singularities,'' hep-th/0007191
C. P. Herzog, I. R. Klebanov and P. Ouyang, "D-Branes on the
Conifold and N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities,''
hep-th/0205100
C. P. Herzog, Q. J. Ejaz and I. R. Klebanov, "Cascading RG Flows
from New Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds,''
hep-th/0412193
M. J. Strassler, "The Duality Cascade,''
hep-th/0505153
A. Dymarsky, I. R. Klebanov and N. Seiberg, "On the Moduli Space
of the Cascading SU(M+p)xSU(p) Gauge Theory,''
hep-th/0511254
Background references for the lectures presented by
JUAN MALDACENA are:
J. M. Maldacena, "TASI 2003 Lectures on
AdS/CFT,'' hep-th/0309246
D. M. Hofman and J. Maldacena, "Giant Magnons,'' hep-th/0604135
Background reference for the lectures presented by
JOSEPH POLCHINSKI is:
J. Polchinski, "Introduction to Cosmic F-
and D-Strings,'' hep-th/0412244
Background references for the lectures presented by
HERMAN VERLINDE are:
M. Berkooz, M. R. Douglas and R. G. Leigh, "Branes
Intersecting at Angles,'' hep-th/9606139
H. Verlinde, "Holography and
Compactification,'' hep-th/9906182
G. Aldazabal, L. E. Ibanez, F. Quevedo and A. M.
Uranga, "D-Branes at Singularities: A Bottom-Up Approach to
the String Embedding of the Standard Model,'' hep-th/0005067
Background reference for the lectures presented by
EDWARD WITTEN is:
A. Kapustin and E. Witten, "Electric-Magnetic
Duality and the Geometric Langlands Program," hep-th/0604151
E. Witten, "On S-Duality in Abelian Gauge
Theory," hep-th/9505186
(added for future reference 7-25-06)
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