Title:

        "Hard probes in AdS/CFT"

Speaker:

        Silviu S. Pufu

Affiliation:

           Princeton University

Abstract:

I will first talk about the energy flow around heavy quarks and mesons in
a strongly coupled N = 4 thermal plasma as computed from the AdS/CFT
duality.  In the second part of the talk I will describe an attempt at
computing the stopping distance of energetic gluons moving through the
plasma, and make a rough estimate of the jet-quenching parameter.