STRING THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS (TASI 2010): FROM MEV TO THE PLANCK SCALE - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2010 THEORETICAL ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

The book is based on lectures given at the TASI summer school of 2010. It aims to provide advanced graduate students, postdoctorates and senior researchers with a survey of important topics in particle physics and string theory, with special emphasis on applications of methods from string theory and quantum gravity in condensed matter physics and QCD (especially heavy ion physics).