A Practical Mini-Course on Applied Holography

Understand

This is a collection of notes based on lectures given at IIT Madras in September 2019 and at IFT Madrid in November 2019.

• It is supposed to be a concise (and therefore not comprehensive) and pragmatic course on applied holography and especially the (basic) analytic and numerical techniques involved.
• The lectures are not focused on the large theoretical and fundamental background which can be found already in several places in the literature, but rather on concrete applications of Bottom-Up AdS-CFT to Hydrodynamics, QCD and Condensed Matter.
• The idea is to accompany the reader step by step through the various benchmark examples with a classmate attitude, providing details of the computations and open-source numerical codes in Mathematica, and sharing simple tricks and warnings collected during my research experience.