We discuss recent developments in the hydrodynamic description of strongly coupled
conformal field theories using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, we review aspects …

We generalize recent work to construct a map from the conformal Navier Stokes equations
with holographically determined transport coefficients, in d spacetime dimensions, to the set …

We generalize the computations of [1] to generate long wavelength, asymptotically locally
AdS 5 solutions to the Einstein-dilaton system with a slowly varying boundary dilaton field …

We show that the recently constructed holographic duals of conformal non-relativistic
theories behave hydrodynamically at long distances, and construct the gravitational dual of …

We analyse the global structure of time-dependent geometries dual to expanding plasmas,
considering two examples: the boost invariant Bjorken flow, and the conformal soliton flow …

We consider high energy collisions of two shock waves in AdS 5 as a model of
ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions in the boundary theory. We first calculate the …

We calculate shear viscosity to entropy density ratio in presence of four derivative (with
coefficient α') and six derivative (with coefficient α'2) terms in bulk action. In general, there …

The shear viscosity coefficient of strongly coupled boundary gauge theory plasma depends
on the horizon value of the effective coupling of transverse graviton moving in a black hole …

A bstract We use Lorentzian signature AdS/CFT duality to study a first-order phase transition
in strongly coupled gauge theories that is akin to the chiral phase transition in QCD. We …

In this thesis we first study various aspects of stationary distributions of certain deterministic
and stochastic dynamical systems. We look at the 30 year old proposal to use complex …