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 ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The book is based on lectures given at the TASI summer school of 2010. It aims to provide advanced graduate students, postdoctorates and senior researchers with a survey of important topics in particle physics and string theory, with special emphasis on applications of methods from string theory and quantum gravity in condensed matter physics and QCD (especially heavy ion physics).
