Speaker
Nadav Drukker
(King's College)
Description
Maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 dimensions
(N=4 SYM) is a remarkable theory that can be studied in a
variety of ways beyond traditional perturbation theory. On our
quest to calculate the quark-antiquark potential in this theory
we will be led by three valkyries: Holography, Integrability
and Localization. They pull us in three different directions,
towards string theory, matrix models and spin chains, but
together enable us to calculate some quantities exactly and
others to very high precision.
