PHYS 576 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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You can find my full lecture notes from last year here: LECTURE NOTES 2024

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Week Date Lecture Topic Homework
1
Wednesday
22 Jan
Lecture  1
Lecture 1 slides

Overview, QCD Feynman diagrams

Assign HW1
Thursday
 
     
Friday
 
     
2
Monday
27 Jan

Lecture 2

QCD Feynman diagrams  
Tuesday
     
Wednesday
29 Jan

Lecture 3

Isospin+Bound states  
Thursday
     
Friday
     
3
Monday
3 Feb

Lecture 4

Isospin+Bound states

HW1 due

Assign HW2

Tuesday
   

 

Wednesday
5 Feb

Lecture 5

Isospin+Bound states

Noronha-Hostler traveling - substitute

 
Thursday
     
Friday
   

 

4
Monday
10 Feb

Lecture 6

Isospin+Bound states

 

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
12 Feb

Lecture 7

Charge, Parity, Time Reversal

 

Thursday
     
Friday
   

 

5
Monday
17 Feb

Lecture 8

Heavy flavor

Due date HW2

Assign HW3

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
19 Feb

Lecture 9

Decays and Interactions

 
Thursday
     
Friday
     
6
Monday
24 Feb

Lecture 10

Perturbation Theory  
Tuesday
     
Wednesday
26 Feb

Lecture 11

 

Bilinears Extra Credit: Jocelyn Bell Colloquium!
Thursday
     
Friday
   

 

7
Monday
3 Mar

Lecture 12

QCD

Due date HW3

Assign HW4

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
5 Mar

Lecture 13

QCD Feynman Rules

 
Thursday
     
Friday
     
8
Monday
10 Mar

Lecture  14

Color Confinement, Hadrons,

Deep-Inelastic Scattering

 

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
12 Mar

Lecture 15

Deep-Inelastic Scattering

 
Thursday
     
Friday
     
9 3/17-3/22 Spring Break No lecture! I'm out of the country and will be unavailable via email during this week.
10
Monday
24 Mar

Lecture 16

Deep-Inelastic Scattering

 

Tuesday
   

 

Wednesday
26 Mar

Lecture 17

Finish DIS, lattice QCD

 

Thursday
     
Friday
     
11
Monday
31 Mar

Lecture 18

lattice QCD

Due date HW4

Assign HW5

Tuesday
   

 

 

Wednesday
2 Apr

Lecture 19

 

Lattice QCD

 

Thursday
     
Friday
     
12
Monday
7 Apr

Lecture 20

Lattice QCD

Noronha-Hostler traveling, substitute or zoom

 

Abstract Due!!

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
9 Apr

Lecture 21

Lattice QCD: history

Noronha-Hostler traveling, substitute or zoom

Thursday
     
Friday
   

 

13
Monday
14 Apr

Lecture 22

Heavy-ions: overview

Due date HW5

Assign HW6

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
16 Apr

Lecture 23

Heavy-ions: optical Glauber

 

Thursday
     
Friday
     
14
Monday
21 Apr

Lecture 24

Heavy-ions: Monte Carlo Glauber

 

 

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
23 Apr

Lecture 25

Heavy-ions: Hydro

 

Thursday
     
Friday
     
15
Monday
26 Apr

Lecture 26

Heavy-Ions: Hydro

 
Tuesday
     
Wednesday
28 Apr

Lecture  27

Heavy-Ions: Hydro  
Thursday
     
Friday
     
16
Monday
5 May

Lecture 28

Heavy-Ions: Hydro

 

Tuesday
     
Wednesday
7 May 

Final Presentations

Rubrick

 

Due date HW6

Thursday
     
Friday