Holographic equilibration at strong and intermediate coupling

Abstract

In these conference proceedings, I describe recent developments in the study of thermalization dynamics in strongly, but not infinitely strongly coupled field theories using holography. After reviewing the main tools required in these calculations, I introduce a set of central results, discuss their physical implications, and finally outline a number of challenges to be tackled in the future.

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the conference 'Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum XI', St. Petersburg, September 8-12 2014