chaotic

the list (before tuesday @ 12:30 pm):
1. passably understand and be familiar with the following:
- hep-th/0205236 - karch, katz: adding flavour
- hep-th/0201253 - d'hoker, freedman: review of ads/cft
- hep-th/0506184 - kovtun, starinets: qnm in finite-T ads/cft
- hep-th/0605158 - herzog, karch, et al: heavy quark in the plasma
- hep-ph/0602229 - karch, katz, et al: soft-wall model
- 0706.0368 - chesler, yaffe: heavy quark wake
- hep-th/0512125 - karch, o'bannon: holo. r.g. for probe branes*
- 0711.0736 - lin, shuryak: zero-T finite mass energy calc.*
- 0705.0994 - bak, karch, yaffe: debye screening in ads*
2. review the following topics:
- higgs mechanism in the standard model*
- [gauge] spontaneous symmetry breaking*
- basic BSM models (MSSM, mSUGRA, technicolor, little higgs)
- anomalies (and the rho meson)*
- beta function for yang-mills*
- effective potential
- helicity-phase-space decay*
- ward identities & conserved currents
- nuclear phenomenology*
- bag model
- qcd phase diagram*
- chiral lagrangian
- isospin constraints*
- wigner-eckhart thm. (savage is on my committee)*
- nucleon EFT*
- basic large N qcd
- fundamental particles
- CP violation & strong CP problem [a.k.a. axions]
- primary decay channels*
- basic jet phenomenology*
- collinear singularities*
- parton model*
- neutrinos & seesaw mechanism*
- flux tubes & regge trajectories
- basic lattice thy. (wilson action, domain-wall fermions, glueballs, wilson's sketch of confinement)
- review of anything the yaffe's ever assigned. ever.
- theta-vacua in qcd*
- tunneling in qft (instanton/soliton)
- lippmann-schwinger & born approximation*
- resonance and the t-matrix
- bound states in qft - hydrogen, non-rel. mesons (HQEFT)
- landau-ginzburg model for critical phenomena
- block-spinning the ising model (a.k.a. wilson r.g.)*
- anything else I think of along the way
3. for the talk:
- fix figures for new string initial conditions
- add extra slides:*
a. massive quark case
b. original i.c. & results
c. partons and parton reconstruction
d. finite-T
e. comments on quenched approx (Nc>>Nf)
f. eom's, eqn's, formal results
g. relation to son's real-time procedure
- give practice talk on monday afternoon*
- final revision monday night*

a * denotes some time needed to review. no * indicates completion.

oh, and a cool picture:
baryon charge density for a massless quark-antiquark production event in N=4 super yang-mills


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"steven always loved a story
since he was a little boy
he’d grab a book and climb into his mother’s lap
but his mother, oh God bless her
she loved that little boy
and she'd only read the parts she thought were happy

and he grew to be a man
but he never understood
that there’s always something bad
between the good and the good

every night there by his bedside
he’d offer up his prayers
ask Jesus to keep his friends and family from harm
so when his dad came down with cancer
and mom, she wrecked the car
he knew that Jesus must have never really cared

cause he grew to be a man
and he never understood
that there’s always something bad
between the good and the good

and he fell in love
with a perfect girl
she smiled so pretty
it tore his world apart
when she left without saying goodbye

well, he always loved a story
since he was a little boy
he’d grab a book and climb into his mother’s lap
and if she’d read the parts where knees got skinned,
kids didn't share and the cheaters win
well, he might believe that Jesus really cared

but he grew to be a man
and he never understood
that there’s always something bad
between the good and the good"
- andrew osenga