In these pedagogical lectures, we present the techniques of the AdS/CFT correspondence which can be applied to the study of real time dynamics of a strongly coupled plasma system. These methods are based on solving gravitational Einstein's equations on the string/gravity side of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We illustrate these techniques with applications to the boost-invariant expansion of a plasma system. We emphasize the common underlying AdS/CFT description both in the large proper time regime where hydrodynamic dynamics dominates, and in the small proper time regime where the dynamics is far from equilibrium. These AdS/CFT methods provide a fascinating arena interrelating General Relativity phenomenae with strongly coupled gauge theory physics. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Janik, R. A. (2011). The dynamics of quark-gluon plasma and AdS/CFT. Lecture Notes in Physics, 828, 147–181. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04864-7_5
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