Prof. Elena Caceres – Brown University
“String Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics”
String Theory has long been the best candidate for a unified theory of physics. Unfortunately, its lack of predictive power and its abstract nature made it more of a beautiful mathematical construction than a theory relevant to our physical experience. This has dramatically changed in the last years with the discovery of a gauge/gravity duality.
I will review the gauge/gravity duality and how it has changed our understanding of String Theory. I will describe the ongoing search for a string theory dual of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) . I will also discuss how the existence of this dual would make it possible to calculate QCD observables directly from string theory.
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