PHYS 583 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

The table below shows the topics we will cover in the course. Exact lecture dates for the topics may still shift, though.

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The reading assignments are strongly recommended accompanying reading to the lectures, they are from Peskin and Schroder (PS) and Weinberg I, II (W1,W2). 

Lecture notes are available for download after each lecture .  They are provided as a help in looking back what was covered, not to replace reading, or taking your own notes during lecture. They are my own notes for holding lecture, so I cannot give any guarantee for legibility, and they may contain mistakes. 

Week	Date	L. Topics	Reading	Homework
1	8/23	Scope of QFT
	8/25	Balls and Springs, Classical mechanics, field theory	PS 1-2,
2	8/30	Labor Day - No class
	9/1	Classical mechanics	PS 1-2
3	9/8	Noether's theorem, spacetime symmetries	PS 1-2	HW1 (due: Sep 25)
	9/10	Global symmetries, Lie algebras, projective representations
4	9/15	Canonical quantization, SHO, KG field
	9/17	Particles, vacuum energy. Complex scalar
5	9/22	Causality and propogators
	9/24	Representations of the Poincare group
6	9/29	Dirac, Weyl spinors
	10/1	Dirac notation, solutions of Dirac eqution
7	10/6	Little group and particle states		HW2 (due: Oct 20)
	10/8	Canonical quantization of fermions, spin-statistic theorem
8	10/13	Holes, anti-particles, CPT
	10/15	CPT and all that
9	10/20	Path integral quantization
	10/22	Correlations functions, connected diagrams, interactions, vacuum bubbles
10	10/27	Pertrubation theory
	10/29	Wick's theorem, Feynmann diagrams
11	11/3	Continued
	11/5	Continued
12	11/10	S-matrix and LSZ reduction
	11/12	Coherent state path integral, grassman variables
13	11/17	Fermionic path integral, Feynmann diagrams
	11/19	Gauge theories and local gauge invariance
		Thanksgiving break
14	12/1	QED
	12/3	QED
15	12/8	Feynmann rules of QED
	12/10	S-matrix examples
		Final exam