Quantum Field Theory
David Tong's celebrated Perimeter Scholars International blackboard course covering classical fields, canonical quantization, interacting scalar theories, Wick's theorem, Feynman diagrams, Dirac spinors, and QED.
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David Tong's celebrated Perimeter Scholars International blackboard course covering classical fields, canonical quantization, interacting scalar theories, Wick's theorem, Feynman diagrams, Dirac spinors, and QED.
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This lecture, part of Alexander Polyakov's graduate course at Princeton, delves into advanced topics in modern classical dynamics, suitable for researchers in theoretical physics.
Yin-Chen He introduces the fuzzy sphere regularization, a non-perturbative method for 3D Conformal Field Theories, with applications to the 3D Ising transition, fermionic CFTs, and Chern-Simons matter theories.
World-renowned physicist Carlo Rovelli unravels the profound implications of falling into a black hole, addressing concepts from Einstein's equations to the frontiers of quantum gravity.
Robbert Dijkgraaf explores the profound influence of quantum physics, quantum field theory, and string theory on pure mathematics, demonstrating how physical insights lead to new invariants in geometry and topology.
MIT physicist Netta Engelhardt unravels the profound black hole information paradox, a critical intersection where general relativity and quantum mechanics present conflicting descriptions.
Nima Arkani-Hamed presents an extended discussion on the methodology of theoretical physics research, fundamental length scales, natural units, and order-of-magnitude estimations across relativistic, quantum mechanical, and cosmological phenomena. The lectures address both conceptual frameworks and practical research considerations for advanced students.



Relativistic fields, Noether symmetries, early-universe inflation, and entropy
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