Quantum Field Theory Study Group
The sessions will be held on Thursdays at 4:00pm. We will roughly follow the course structure of David Tong's course at PI in 2009, the notes can be found here: David Tong's Notes and the lectures can be found on PIRSA.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Room | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 13 | Kaleb | Preliminaries and Intro to QFT | Phys 308 | Tong pages 0-12 |
| Sept 20 | Basel | Symmetries and Hamiltonian Formalism | Phys 308 | pages 12-25 |
| Sept 27 | Joshua | Canonical Quantization and Free fields | Phys 308 | pages 26-33 |
| Oct 4 | Zeke | Lorentz Invariance | Phys 216 3:00-4:00pm |
pages 33-38 |
| Oct 11 | Connor | Propagators | Phys 308 | 38-43 |
| Oct 18 | Kaleb | Examples | RCH 205 | Problem Set 2, Q3,4,8 |
| Oct 25 | Basel | Interacting Field, Scalar Yukawa Theory | Phys 308 | 47-55 |
| Nov 1 | Joshua | Wick's Theorem and Feynman Diagrams | Phys 308 | 56-65 |
| Nov 8 | Zeke | More Feynman Diagrams and $\phi^4$ theory | Phys 308 | 65-70 |
| Nov 15 | Connor | Spinors | Phys 308 | 81-90 |
| Nov 22 | Kaleb | Dirac Equation | Phys 308 | 90-94 |
| Nov 29 | Basel | Majorana Fermions | phys 308 | 94-102 |
| Dec 6 | Zeke | Quantizing the Dirac Field | RCH 205 | ch5 |
| Dec 13 | Basel | qed | phys 308 | chapter 6 |