Exam Hall change and exam rules

For students crediting this course at IISER Pune: the lecture room for the exam on Feb 23 will be LHC 301. I assume you will be notified by the authorities directly also. The exam will be invigilated by Prof. Diptimoy Ghosh and possibly others.

In the exam you may use my PDF notes on any device (mobile, tablet, laptop) or in paper form. The authorities and also Prof. Diptimoy Ghosh have been notified about this rule. No other material is to be used, not even your own notes. Devices should be in flight mode and no internet access is allowed during the exam. 

This week plans

This week (5-9 Feb) we will have a regular lecture on Tuesday and Thursday. However on Wednesday I will instead hold an informal tutorial. You may bring your questions about any aspect of the course so far. Also I will try to revise some of the topics that may have been a little tricky - depending on the questions that are asked.

Please also see the updated course plan posted on this blog. Some topics have been postponed to the second half of the course.

Updated Course Plan

1. Tuesday 02/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304.

Classical scalar fields and their symmetries.

2. Thursday 04/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

More on classical scalar fields and symmetries. 

3. Monday 08/01/24 2:00-3:00 PM, 305

Classical scalar fields and symmetries: nonlinear sigma models.

4. Tuesday 09/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

Principal chiral model, Euclidean continuation of field theory.

5. Thursday 11/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

Fermion fields, anti-commutation, Grassman numbers.

6. Monday 15/01/24 2:00-3:00 PM, 305 

Symmetries of fermion Lagrangians, chiral symmetry.

7. Tuesday 16/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

Vector fields, gauge invariance and gauge fixing.

8. Tuesday 23/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

More on vector fields, gauge invariance and gauge fixing. 

9. Wednesday 24/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 305

Yang-Mills Lagrangian and non-abelian gauge invariance. 

 

Thursday 25 January: Quiz 1 (based on material from Lectures 1-7)

10. Tuesday 30/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

Introduction to path integrals in quantum mechanics.

11. Wednesday 31/01/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 305 

Path integral in quantum mechanics and their evaluation.

12. Thursday 01/02/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

Evaluating Gaussian path integrals in quantum mechanics.

13. Tuesday 06/02/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

Evaluation of non-Gaussian path integrals.

Wednesday 07/02/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 305

Tutorial (will not be video recorded)

14. Thursday 08/02/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

Path integrals in quantum mechanics: imaginary time and finite temperature. 

15. Tuesday 13/02/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

 Path integrals for scalar field theory.

16. Wednesday 14/02/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 305

Integrating over anti-commuting variables.

17. Thursday 15/02/24 4:00-5:00 PM, 304 

 Fermionic path integrals.

Mid-semester exam: 23/02/24, 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon