STRING THEORY STUDENT SEMINAR 2006
Jan de Boer, Jan Pieter van der Schaar
This seminar will present an introduction to string theory. | |
location
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room I.201 Tuesday May 9: room E.151 Tuesday May 16: room C.210 Tuesday May 23: no class Tuesday May 30: room C.210 (last class) |
dates | Thursdays from 09.00-12.00 From May 9 onwards on Tuesdays from 09.00-12.00. |
lecturers | Jan de Boer (jdeboer[at]science.uva.nl) Jan Pieter van der Schaar (jpschaar[at]science.uva.nl) |
literature | B. Zwiebach, String Theory B. Schellekens, conformal field theory (postscript file) |
May 9, all | read Schellekens pp 1-29 do these exercises ( ps, pdf ) |
May 9, lect 1 | discuss Schellekens pp 1-17 discuss relation CFT vs string theory see e.g. chap 21 of Zwiebach |
May 9, lect 2 | discuss Schellekens pp 18-29 discuss radial quantization discuss Operator Product Expansion see e.g. S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields vol II , chapter 20 |
May 16, all | read Schellekens pp 30-63 do these exercises ( ps, pdf ) do this exercise from last year |
May 16, lect 1 | discuss Schellekens pp 30-51 discuss relation CFT-statistical mechanics see e.g. these notes |
May 16, lect 2 | discuss Schellekens pp 51-63 discuss string perturbation theory discuss moduli space of Riemann surfaces discuss modular invariance see e.g. Zwiebach chapter 22 see e.g. Polchinski, String Theory, par 3.1. see e.g. Green, Schwarz, Witten, String Theory, volume 1. |
May 30, all | read Polchinski section 3.7 and 8.1 (will be
handed out) do these exercises ( ps, pdf ) |