These are notes based on a series of lectures given at the KITP workshop Quantum
Criticality and the AdS/CFT Correspondence in July, 2009. The goal of the lectures was to …

In the last years it has been shown that some properties of strongly coupled
superconductors can be potentially described by classical general relativity living in one …

We compute the three point correlation functions for primordial scalar and tensor fluctuations
in single field inflationary models. We obtain explicit expressions in the slow roll limit where …

We review the formalism of holographic renormalization. We start by discussing
mathematical results on asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes. We then outline the …

Coupling fundamental quarks to QCD in the dual string representation corresponds to
adding the open string sector. Flavors therefore should be represented by space-time filling …

We systematically develop the procedure of holographic renormalization for RG flows dual
to asymptotically AdS domain walls. All divergences of the on-shell bulk action can be …

In these lecture notes we first assemble the basic ingredients of supersymmetric gauge
theories (particularly N= 4 super-Yang-Mills theory), supergravity, and superstring theory …

We construct electrically charged AdS 5 black hole solutions whose charge, mass and boost-
parameters vary slowly with the space-time coordinates. From the perspective of the dual …

We formulate the variational problem for AdS gravity with Dirichlet boundary conditions and
demonstrate that the covariant counterterms are necessary to make the variational problem …

We consider holography for d-dimensional scale invariant but non-Lorentz invariant field
theories, which do not admit the full Schrodinger symmetry group. We find new realizations …