Phy 616: Quantum Field Theory I

Physics 616

Quantum Field Theory I

Fall 2006

Important Dates

August 23 - Wednesday - First day of classes

August 29 - Tuesday - Last day to add a class

September 4 - Monday - Labor Day - Academic Holiday

September 13 - Wednesday - EARLY drop date

October 6 - Friday - Fall Break - Academic Holiday

October 20 - Friday - Drop Date

November 23-25 - Thursday through Saturday - Thanksgiving - Academic Holiday

December 8 - Friday - Last day of class

December 14, 15 - Thursday, Friday - 1:00 - 4:00PM, Oral Presentations

Announcements:

8/23/06: I plan to be out of town on 9/11, 9/13, 9/18, and 9/20 and thus will cancel my lectures on these dates. In their stead I shall offer make-up lectures at 8PM on Thursday evening on 9/28, 10/12, 10/19, and 10/26. Hopefully these lectures can occur in Rm 397 as usual.

8/23/06: We shall schedule our oral presentations from 1-4PM on Monday, Dec. 11. We will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 12 from 1-4PM as well, if need be.

10/17/06: The oral presentations are now scheduled from 1-4PM on Thursday, Dec. 14 and from 1-4PM on Friday, Dec. 15.

Oral Presentation Schedule

December 14 - Thursday - 1:00 - 4:00PM, Rm 397:

Sunayan Acharya
L O'Raifeartaigh, ``Hidden gauge symmetry,'' Rep. Prog. Phys. 42, 159-223 (1979). Note Sec.3.
paper.
Yanbin Deng
F. Bloch and A. Nordsieck, ``Note on the Radiation Field of the Electron,'' Phys. Rev. 52, 54 - 59 (1937).
paper.
Tim Martin
R.P. Feynman, ``Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics,'' Rev. Mod. Phys. 20, 367 - 387 (1948).
paper.
JaeHyuk Oh
Gerhart Lueders, ``Proof of the TCP theorem,'' Annals of Physics, 2, Issue 1, p.1-15 (1957).

December 15 - Friday - 1:00 - 4:00PM, Rm 397:

Qiaoli Yang
L. D. Faddeev and Popov, ``Feynman Diagrams For The Yang-Mills Field,'' Phys. Lett. 25B, 29 (1967).
Yuji Ueno
S. Tomonaga, ``On a Relativistically Invariant Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Wave Fields,'' Prog. Theor. Phys., Vol. 1, No. 2, Aug.-Sept., 1946.
Wilhelm Schmelz
P.A.M. Dirac, ``Quantised Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field,'' Proc. Roy. Soc. A 133, 60 (1931); P.A.M. Dirac, ``The Theory of Magnetic Poles,'' Physical Review, 74:817 - 830, (1948).
Note also P. Goddard and David I. Olive, `` New Developments In The Theory Of Magnetic Monopoles,'' Rept.Prog.Phys.41:1357 (1978) and Jeffrey A. Harvey, ``Magnetic monopoles, duality and supersymmetry,'' hep-th/9603086.
Luiz Santos
S. Coleman et al., ``Fate of false vacuum: Semiclassical theory,'' Phys. Rev. D15 , 2929 (1977); ``Fate of false vacuum. II. First quantum corrections,'' Phys. Rev. D16, 1792 (1977); ``Gravitational Effects on an of vacuum decay,'' Phys. Rev. D21, 3305 (1980)
Brian Ray
R. P. Feynman, ``Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics,'' Phys. Rev. 76, 769 (1949).
Daheng He
Yukawa, H. , Proc. Phys.-Math. Soc. Japan, 17, 48 (1935): reprinted in Collected Papers on Meson Theory, suppl. Prog. Theor. Phys. Kyoto (195758).
Archisman Ghosh
R. P. Feynman, ``The Theory of Positrons,'' Phys. Rev. 76, 749 (1949).