Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories and The AdS/CFT Correspondence

Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories and The AdS/CFT Correspondence

Mon, 10/10/2011
12:00 		Arthur Lipstein (Oxford) String Theory Seminar Add to calendar L3
Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories and The AdS/CFT Correspondence
The study of superconformal Chern-Simons theories has led to a deeper understanding of M-theory and a new example of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this talk, I will give an overview of superconformal Chern-Simons theories and their gravity duals. I will also describe some recent work on scattering amplitudes in these theories.