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Professor:
Ken Intriligator, Mayer Hall 5234
Office hours: Monday at 2-3pm, or by appointment. Teaching Assistant:
Prarit Agarwal, Mayer Hall 4238
Office hours: Friday at 4-5pm, or by appointment.
Text: A First Course in String Theory (2nd edition) , by Barton Zwiebach. I have requested that it be put on reserves at Giesel. Course Times
: MW 11:00-12:20 pm, MYR-A 2623. Midterm (tentative): Weds May 8. Final: Friday 6/14: 11:30-2:30.
Grading: Weekly HW will be assigned (no late HWs will be accepted). There will also be occasional in-class quizzes, and a final exam.
Homework: 20%; midterm: 30%; final exam: 50%.
Feel free to work in groups on the HW, but you still need to turn in your own work: do not just copy other's. Also, copying from online solutions etc is strictly not allowed. Violations will be referred to the academic integrity office.
String Theory Wikipedia page (includes many links, and references).
Also check out Lenny Susskind's lectures on YouTube!
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| lecture | topic (and link to notes) | Homework (from Zwiebach) |
| 4/1 | Introduction | 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.10, 3.1, 3.2. Due 4/17. |
| 4/3 | Introduction, cont. | |
| 4/8 | Relativity, light cone coordinates | |
| 4/10 | Extra dimensions, E and M | |
| 4/15 | Extra dimensions, E and M, cont | 3.7, 3.8, 3.9. 3.10, 3.11. due 4/24 |
| 4/17 | Discussion session with Prarit | |
| 4/22 | Lecture postponed | |
| 4/25 | Nonrelativistic strings | |
| 4/29 | Relativistic particle and string | 4.5, 4.8, 5.2, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 6.4, 6.5, 6.9. due 5/6 |
| 5/1 | Nambu-Goto string | |
| 5/3 | Nambu-Goto string, static gauge | |
| 5/6 | String parameterization and motion | |
| 5/8 | Midterm (with solutions) | |
| 5/10 | Conservation laws. | |
| 5/13 | Conservation laws, cont. | 7.2, 8.5, 9.3 (due 5/22) |
| 5/15 | Light cone strings | |
| 5/20 | Light cone strings, cont. | |
| 5/22 | field quantization | |
| 5/29 | field / string quantization | 10.7, 12.1 Due 6/5 |
| 6/3 | open string quantization | |
| 6/5 | closed strings, superstrings |