[Via Asymptotia]. Time to learn some QFT, right? Even if you already know (or think you know) the subject, I believe you will find the lectures by late Sidney Coleman very illuminating. You can now find his mid 70’s video lectures through this link. Lecture notes are available here (scroll down to “Some Classic Quantum Field Theory Courses”; actually this page by David Tong has many useful resources in QFT).
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Tempo Aberto
Livro de Ficção-científica escrito em Português por Christine Córdula (Dantas):
This is my first Science Fiction novel, entitled "Open Time" ("Tempo Aberto"), released in Portuguese. I am studying the possibility of translating it into English.
Click on the cover image to learn more about it: summary and preface (by clicking "Preview this book" over at the lulu site). Warning: all contents are in Portuguese.
A summary in English can be found here.
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Hi Christine,
Coleman’s lectures are amazing masterpieces; I am mesmerized by them.
At about same time, Robert Geroch gave a course titled Special Topics in Particle Physics, in which he treated with some mathematical care the quantum field theory of free particles. Near the end, he mentions interactions.
In a typical qft course, only a few lectures are spent on what Geroch covered in almost an entire course! I find his treatment to very interesting, and the typeset lecture notes are available at
http://home.uchicago.edu/~seifert/geroch.notes/
Regards,
George
Hi George,
Thanks for mentioning Geroch’s course. I’ll visit the site.
Best wishes,
Christine
I took a quantum field theory course in grad school from Eddie Farhi – “based on Coleman’s notes”, he said. I’ll be interested in see the real thing. Thanks a million!
By the way: anybody likes quantum field theory and hasn’t yet read Coleman’s Aspects of Symmetry is in for a big treat! The down-to-earth physical intuition and conversational treatment of advanced topics is really wonderful.
Dear John Baez,
Coleman’s Aspects of Symmetry is on my wish list at amazon for some months. It will be interesting to read it for sure.
Best,
Christine
Hi, Christine and others,
I just had a quick check of the lecture notes and also the videos.
It seems to me that there is a missing part (~1/3) of the lecture note
compared with the content covered by the video.
For example, there are nothing about SU(3) in the note but a lecture
in the video(#37) etc.
Does anyone have any idea where to find the FULL version of the note, if it exists?
By the way, I am a graduate student majored in experimental nuclear and particle physics.
If any of you are interested, please contact me to exchange ideas on physics or whatever else.
yours
Hi woops,
Thanks for pointing this out. I hope someone knows about the full lecture notes. I’ll try to find out…
Thank you,
Christine