Research Interest of Amos Yarom

      Publication 1: On the energy deposited by a quark moving in N=4 SYM plasma (URL)
      Publication 2: The high momentum behavior of a quark wake (URL)
      Publication 3: Short distance properties of cascading gauge theories (URL)

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Statement of Interest:



I am currently actively working on extracting information on heavy ion
collisions from AdS/CFT. Over the past year there where many works on
this subject which have exhibited an interesting relationship between
a QCD quark gluon plasma and an N=4 quark gluon plasma when both are
strongly coupled. These works have been able to relate measurable
properties of the quark gluon plasma to those of an N=4 SYM theory
which may be predicted via AdS/CFT. In my mind this seems like the
closest string theory has ever got to experiment, which is why I am
pursuing this subject.

In the past I have worked on the UV behavior of cascading gauge
theories and some aspects of black hole physics.

I am also interested, and try to follow the literature on pure spinors
and finiteness of N=8 SUGRA.