These notes arose from a course given at CERN in 2015 and 2016 as part of the Solvay School for an audience of beginning PhD students.
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Solvay Lectures  (PDF, 136 pages; last updated 6 December 2016)

Chapter 1: Introduction

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Chapter 2: Pure States & Ensembles

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Chapter 3: Thermodynamics

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Chapter 4: Correlations

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Chapter 5: Non-Equilibrium Physics

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Chapter 6: Holographic Renormalization

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Chapter 7: Transport

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