Holography

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This module will provide an introduction to the holographic correspondence connecting theories of quantum gravity with non-gravitational theories in one fewer spacetime dimension. Over the past 30 years, holography has developed into a powerful tool for studying both fundamental questions about black holes and making concrete predictions in strongly-interacting quantum field theories. We will take a “bottom-up” approach to this correspondence, discussing very general features of gravitational theories and how they can be reinterpreted as statements in the language of conformal field theory.