Integrability of gauge theories: a tool for QCD? Andrei Belitsky (Arizona State University) The spin chain description of evolution equations for higher twist operators was originally discovered in QCD more than a decade ago. In recent years this framework was intensively used to test the AdS/CFT correspondence which allows one to perform calculations at strong coupling in certain gauge theories. We give an overview of these developments with a look on their potential application to QCD.