MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Physics String Theory 8 821 Prof J McGreevy Fall 2008 End of Term Project Due Topic choices are due Monday November 10 2008 Papers are due on the day of the last lecture The end of term project for 8 821 will be a half hour presentation or short say 5 pages paper summarizing a topic of interest relevant to our class The topic needn t be about string theory or gauge gravity duality specifically An appropriate topic could also be a system that you think may be amenable to study with a gravity dual and want to learn more about Your goal in deciding what to say should be to try to save the rest of us from having to read the papers Give some context say what the crucial point is say what the implications are If you are planning to give a talk I can t recommend highly enough the advice from Geroch gr qc 9703019 Please tell me by email or in person what topic you plan to study as soon as possible also tell me whether you wish to give a talk or write a paper Below are some topic suggestions involving wildly varying levels of difficulty The list is certainly not in any sense exhaustive Creative topics are encouraged Some topic suggestions Lists of references below are intended as entry points to the literature and not as complete citations of all good work on the subject For each paper you should of course always also read all papers which cite it1 as well as all of the papers to which it refers The order below is not meaningful though I ve tried to group related topics together I will keep adding to this file 1 claimed by Ali Nassar holographic RG flows and an a theorem d HokerFreedman review hep th 0201253 9 10 2 string duals of gauge theories with matter in the fundamental Karch Katz hepth 0205236 Sakai Sugimoto hep th 0412141 hep th 0507073 and thermal aspects see refs in review by Erdmenger et al 0711 4467 1 For most of the papers listed below a relatively complete citation list can be found using Spires http www slac stanford edu spires hep 1 3 claimed by Francesco D Eramo more systematic understanding of the real time AdS CFT prescription Son et al hep th 0205051 hep th 0212072 Skenderis van Rees arXiv 0805 0150 Iqbal Liu 0809 3808 4 claimed by Dave Guarrera gravity duals of supersymmetric confining gauge theories with chiral symmetry breaking Klebanov Strassler hep th 0007191 Maldacena Nunez hep th 0008001 Klebanov review hep th 0205100 5 AdS QCD Erlich Katz Son Stephanov hep ph 0501128 Karch Katz Son Stephanov hep ph 0602229 6 claimed by Mohamad Faghfoor Maghrebi entanglement entropy from the gravity dual Ryu Takayanagi hep th 0603001 hep th 0605073 and citations thereof see in particular Fursaev hep th 0606184 7 2d strong coupling transport in a magnetic field Hartnoll Kovtun et al 0704 1160 0706 3215 constraints from EM duality in the bulk Witten hep th 0307041 Kovtun et al hep th 0701036 8 holographic models of superfluidity and superconductivity HHH 0803 3295 0810 1563 Kovtun et al 0809 4870 Shieh et al 0809 4494 9 expanding strongly coupled plasma Janik Peschanski hep th 0512162 hepth 0606149 0706 2108 10 charged particles in strongly coupled plasma jet quenching Liu RajagopalWiedemann hep ph 0605178 hep ph 0612168 and or string dragging Karch et al hep th 0605158 Casalderrey Solana Teaney hepph 0605199 Gubser et al hep th 0605182 hep th 0605292 11 attempts to see a fermi surface in the gravity dual Sung Sik Lee 0809 3402 Rozali et al 0708 1322 Karch Son Starinets Parnachev Kulaxizi 12 finite N effects the stringy exclusion principle Maldacena Strominger hepth 9804085 and giant gravitons McGreevy Susskind Toumbas hep th 0003075 Myers et al hep th 0008015 Itzhaki et al hep th 0008016 13 claimed by Daniel Park a solvable limit of AdS CFT BMN hep th 0202021 last section of hep th 0309246 Gubser Klebanov Polyakov hep th 0204051 2 14 spin chains and the dilatation operator Minahan Zarembo hep th 0212208 and its vast ocean of citations especially Kruczenski hep th 0311203 15 cusp anomalous dimension from string theory Kruczenski hep th 0210115 16 BPS Wilson loops Erickson Semenoff Zarembo hep th 0003055 Drukker Gross hep th 0010274 17 c 1 strings and matrix models an example of holography Kiritsis chapter 15 review by Yu Nakayama hep th 0402009 18 AdS3 and 2d CFT MAGOO 5 e g Maldacena Ooguri hep th 0001053 hepth 0005183 hep th 0111180 19 holography for large N vector models Klebanov Polyakov hep th 0210114 20 behind the horizon by analyticity Maldacena eternal BH in AdS hep th 0106112 Shenker et al hep th 0306170 Festuccia Liu hep th 0506202 21 claimed by Vijay Kumar matrix models of black hole information consumption Festuccia Liu hep th 0611098 Iizuka Polchinski et al 0801 3657 0808 0530 22 string theory and the physics of hadrons Polchinski Susskind hep th 0112204 Polchinski Strassler et al hep th 0109174 hep th 0209211 hep th 0603115 23 microscopic accounting of Bekenstein Hawking entropy for BPS black holes Strominger Vafa hep th 9601029 et cit 24 Birkhoff no hair quasinormal modes and thermalization Horowitz Hubeny hep th 9909056 quasinormal modes and hydrodynamic modes Kovtun Starinets hep th 0506184 25 computation of hydrodynamic green functions Policastro Son Starinets hepth 0205052 0210220 26 anything else we don t get to in lecture that s on the syllabus 3