The rise, fall and rebirth of string models of the strong interactions.

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• Jeff Harvey (U. Chicago)
• Wednesday 18 January 2012, 14:15-15:15
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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String theory was originally developed as a theory of the strong interactions. This approach largely disappeared due to the discovery of asymptotic freedom and the development of QCD , and string theory later came to be viewed as an approach to quantum gravity and unification. Recent developments growing out of the AdS/CFT correspondence have revived the connection between string theory and the strong interactions. I will describe elements of this history and discuss recent progress in using string theory to model the strong interactions.

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