String Theory and Its Applications

For graduate students, postdoctorates, and senior researchers, this proceedings volume contains presentations at TASI 2010, the conference of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, held in Boulder, Colorado. Two themes shaped the program: the Large Hadron collider, and the application of gauge/gravity dualities to questions in condensed matter and high temperature/density physics. Editors Michael Dine and Thomas Banks (U. of California at Santa Cruz) and Subir Sachdev (Harvard U.) have brought together 14 lectures. The first two are identified as overviews, and the remaining are arranged in sections on LHC physics; string model building, landscape and phenomenology; and AdS/CFT applications. A student seminar concludes the presentation. There is no index. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)