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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in High Energy Physics Volume 2010, Article ID 703064, 31 pages doi:10.1155/2010/703064 Review Article Scattering Amplitudes, the AdS/CFT Correspondence, Minimal Surfaces, and Integrability Luis F. Alday School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Luis F. Alday, alday@ Received 22 March 2010; Accepted 8 April 2010 Academic Editor: Carlos Nunez Copyright q 2010 Luis F. Alday. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We focus on the computation of scattering amplitudes of planar maximally supersymmetric Yang- Mill in four dimensions at strong coupling by means of the AdS/CFT correspondence and explain how the problem boils down to the computation of minimal surfaces in AdS in the first part of this paper. In the second part of this review we explain how integrability allows to give a solution to the problem in terms of a set of integral equations. The intention of the review is to give a pedagogical, rather than very detailed, exposition. 1. Introduction The aim of this review is to study gluon scattering amplitudes of four-dimensional planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills MSYMs. We hope that the study of such amplitudes would teach us something about scattering amplitudes of QCD, but at the same time they are much more tractable. The reason for such tractability is twofold. On one hand, perturbative computations are much simpler than in QCD, due to the high degree of symmetry. In fact enormous progress has been made in the last few years. On the other hand, the strong coupling regime of the theory can be studied by