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bullet 1.  What you need to know about string theory
bullet 2.  D3-branes at small and large coupling
bullet 3.  AdS/CFT from scratch, no strings
bullet 4.  What holds up the throat?
bullet 5.  How to defend yourself from a supersymmetric field theory
bullet 6.  About the N = 4 SYM theory
bullet 7.  Big picture of correspondence; strings and strong interactions
bullet 8.  't Hooft counting
bullet 9.  Scale and conformal invariance in field theory
bullet 10.  CFT in D > 2 (cont.)
bullet 11.  Geometry of AdS
bullet 12.  Geometry of AdS (cont.); Poincaré patch; wave equation in AdS
bullet 13.  Masses of fields and dimensions of operators; BF-allowed tachyons
bullet 14.  How to compute two-point correlators of scalar operators
bullet 15.  Preview of real-time issues; two-point functions in momentum space (cont.); more on low-mass2 fields in AdS
bullet 16.  Three-point functions, anomalies; expectation values
bullet 17.  Wilson loops
bullet 18.  Wilson loops (cont.)
bullet 19.  Pointlike probes of the bulk; Baryons and branes in AdS; 'Non-spherical horizons'
bullet 20.  Brief survey of other examples of the correspondence (M2, M5, D1-D5, Dp, branes at singularities); a model of confinement
bullet 21. Confinement (cont.): how to measure the spectrum, proof of mass gap
bullet 22. Black hole mechanics, classical and quantum
bullet 23. AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory; equation of state, free energy and stress tensor
bullet 24. Hawking effect for interacting field theories and BH thermodynamics
bullet 25. AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory: Polyakov-Susskind loop, screening, quasinormal modes, Hawking-page transition

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