Class format: we'll generally meet Mondays at 4pm in Pupin 908. Students will take turns presenting one of the topics in the course outline . Whoever does the presentation should assign a reasonable number of homework problems (say two or three), due back the following week. The main reference for the course is Zwiebach, A first course in string theory. Plan is to get through part I of Zwiebach this fall.
meetings
- Wednesday 9/5, 4:00 in 908 - organizational meeting
- Monday 9/10 - Ethan, Zwiebach chapter 4.
Here's the homework assignment .
- Wednesday 9/19 - Yun, Zwiebach chapter 5.
Homework: Zwiebach 5.5 and 5.7.
- Monday 9/24 - Jeremy, Zwiebach sections 6.1 - 6.5.
Here's the homework assignment , also a handout on gauge symmetry .
- Wednesday 10/3 - Yoni, Zwiebach sections 6.6 - 6.9.
Homework: Zwiebach 6.5 and 6.7.
- Wednesday 10/10 - Andrei, Zwiebach chapter 7.
Homework: Zwiebach 7.2 and 7.5 parts a,b,c only.
- Monday 10/15 at 4:30 - Willy, chapter 8.
Homework: Zwiebach 8.1 and 8.3.
- 10/22 - Yoni, chapter 9.
Homework: problems 9.3 and 2.2.
- 10/29 - Ethan, chapter 10.
Homework: a problem on the Casimir effect .
- 11/5 - academic holiday
- 11/12 - Ethan finished chapter 10.
Homework: problem 10.7.
- 11/19 - A colloquium by Massimo Porrati.
- 11/26 - Jeremy, chapter 11.
Homework: problems 11.6 and 11.7.
- 12/3 - Willy, first half of chapter 12.
Homework: problems 12.1 and 12.4.
- 12/10 - Andrei, second half of chapter 12.
- Wednesday 12/12 at 4pm - Yun, chapter 13.