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            <td>IMPORTANT UPDATE - Rutgers NHETC Seminar Tomorrow,
              February 13 at 2:30pm - ZOOM ONLY</td>
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            <td>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:17:38 +0000</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Christina Pettola <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cpettola@physics.rutgers.edu">&lt;cpettola@physics.rutgers.edu&gt;</a></td>
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            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu">allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu</a>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu">&lt;allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu&gt;</a>, Ananda Roy
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            <td>Ofer Aharony <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ofer.aharony@weizmann.ac.il">&lt;ofer.aharony@weizmann.ac.il&gt;</a></td>
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                  February 13 at 2:30PM</u></b></span><span
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style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><u>Title:</u></b> Two
              dimensional QCD as a string theory<br>
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              <b><u>Abstract:<wbr></u></b> 50 years after the duality of
              large N gauge theories to string theories was suggested,
              we still do not have a constructive method to find the
              string dual of a given gauge theory. I will review work in
              progress on two approaches to understandin<wbr
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              this, in what should perhaps be the simplest case, namely
              two dimensional gauge theories. The first approach uses
              perturbation theory to obtain an effective stringy
              description of the high-energy states of 2d QCD with very
              massive adjoint fermions. The second approach starts from
              finding a good worldsheet description for the string dual
              to the two dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory, following
              past work by Gross-Taylor, Cordes-Moore-Ra<wbr
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">mgoolam,
              and Horava; in the future we hope to add to it boundaries
              (quarks in the fundamental representation) and/or extra
              particles on the worldsheet (adjoint matter fields).</span></div>
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style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">Christina</span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Christina
            Pettola</span></div>
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style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">New
              High Energy Theory Center</span></div>
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style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Rutgers,
              The State University of New Jersey</span></div>
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style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);"><b>Please
                email if you need to reach me:
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style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);"><b><a
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                  style="margin: 0px;" moz-do-not-send="true">cpettola@physics.rutgers.edu</a></b></span></div>
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style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Christina
          Pettola <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cpettola@physics.rutgers.edu">&lt;cpettola@physics.rutgers.edu&gt;</a><br>
          <b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 9, 2024 1:22 PM<br>
          <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu">allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu</a>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu">&lt;allnhetc@lists.physics.rutgers.edu&gt;</a>; Ananda Roy
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ananda.roy@physics.rutgers.edu">&lt;ananda.roy@physics.rutgers.edu&gt;</a>; lisa
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lisa@ias.edu">&lt;lisa@ias.edu&gt;</a><br>
          <b>Cc:</b> Ofer Aharony <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ofer.aharony@weizmann.ac.il">&lt;ofer.aharony@weizmann.ac.il&gt;</a><br>
          <b>Subject:</b> Rutgers NHETC Seminar Next Tuesday, February
          13 at 2:30pm - 385E and Zoom</span>
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style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Good
          afternoon,</span></div>
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            <span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Our
              seminar
            </span><span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;"><b><u>next
                  Tuesday, February 13 at 2:30PM</u></b></span><span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> with
              <a href="https://www.weizmann.ac.il/particle/Aharony/home"
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                Professor Ofer Aharony</a> (Weizmann Institute of
              Science) will be held <b><u>via in-person in room 385E
                  and Zoom</u></b>.</span></p>
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            <span
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              are the seminar details:</span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><u>Title:</u></b> Two
              dimensional QCD as a string theory<br>
              <br>
              <b><u>Abstract:<wbr></u></b> 50 years after the duality of
              large N gauge theories to string theories was suggested,
              we still do not have a constructive method to find the
              string dual of a given gauge theory. I will review work in
              progress on two approaches to understandin<wbr
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              this, in what should perhaps be the simplest case, namely
              two dimensional gauge theories. The first approach uses
              perturbation theory to obtain an effective stringy
              description of the high-energy states of 2d QCD with very
              massive adjoint fermions. The second approach starts from
              finding a good worldsheet description for the string dual
              to the two dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory, following
              past work by Gross-Taylor, Cordes-Moore-Ra<wbr
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              and Horava; in the future we hope to add to it boundaries
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