Speaker: Stijn van Tongeren

Title: Drinfeld-twisted AdS/CFT

Abstract: The canonical duality between strings on AdS5 and N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, can famously be described by an integrable model in the planar limit. This exact solvability provides in-depth tests of AdS/CFT, and (under certain assumptions) gives a non-perturbative definition of the planar four dimensional gauge theory. I will discuss progress in extending this approach to a landscape of twist deformations of AdS/CFT, emphasizing recent progress on the gauge theory side.