2-11 October 2008
San Carlos, Sonora, México
America/Hermosillo timezone
- bamr@nucleares.unam.mx
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Contribution
Speakers
- Dr. José Daniel EDELSTEIN
Primary authors
- Dr. José Daniel EDELSTEIN (U. de Santiago de Compostela)
Description
In the first half of the lecture I will introduce some aspects of one of the most profound theoretical insights in modern physics: the AdS/CFT correspondence or Maldacena conjecture. I will illustrate its potential to shed light on a number of non-perturbative phenomena in non-Abelian gauge theories like QCD. I will then devote the second half of the lecture to present the extension of this framework to the finite temperature case, and end by briefly summarizing the striking applications of this scheme to unveil important features of the physics of the quark-gluon plasma that is being currently produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions.