The dynamics of quark-gluon plasma and AdS/CFT

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In these pedagogical lectures, we present the techniques of the AdS/CFT correspondence which can be applied to the study of real time dynamics of a strongly coupled plasma system.

• These methods are based on solving gravitational Einstein's equations on the string/gravity side of the AdS/CFT correspondence.
• We illustrate these techniques with applications to the boost-invariant expansion of a plasma system.
• We emphasize the common underlying AdS/CFT description both in the large proper time regime where hydrodynamic dynamics dominates, and in the small proper time regime where the dynamics is far from equilibrium.