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