Speaker: Igor Klebanov (Princeton University)

Title:
AdS/CFT and Beyond

Abstract:
D-branes and their gravitational properties are used to motivate the AdS/CFT 
correspondence which relates string theory in Anti-de Sitter space to a certain 
supersymmetric gauge theory. New tests of the correspondence, based on 
dimensions of high-spin operators, are reviewed. We also discuss applications 
of the correspondence to thermal gauge theory which involve black holes. Finally, 
we outline extensions of the gauge/string duality to gauge theories that exhibit 
color confinement.