A course on particle and string theory from the path integral point of view.
Here's the course syllabus, although the time moved to Thursdays 3 - 5:30 in 831, and now it's Fridays 11:30 - 2 in 1332.
lecture notes
- Path integrals in quantum mechanics
- Relativistic particles: path integrals and scattering
- Relativistic strings
- String interactions
- Lam's notes on covariant quantization and the superstring
- Compactification on tori and T-duality
homework
- Homework #1 due 1/31
- Homework #2 due 2/7
- Homework #3 due 2/14
- Homework #4 due 2/21
- Homework #8 due 4/25
- Homework #9 due 5/9