@inbook {IOPORT.06078458, author = {Janik, Romuald A.}, title = {The dynamics of Quark-Gluon Plasma and AdS/CFT.}, year = {2011}, booktitle = {From gravity to thermal gauge theories. The AdS/CFT correspondence. Edited version of the review talks given in the 5th Aegean school on the AdS/CFT correspondence, Adamas, Milos Island, Greece, September 21--26, 2009}, isbn = {978-3-642-04863-0}, pages = {147-181}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-04864-7_5}, abstract = {Summary: 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.}, identifier = {06078458}, }