Quantum Field Theory program at IAS: Spring Term

The basic weekly schedule for the spring term was: lectures on Thursdays, 10:30-12:30 and 2:00-4:00, problem/discussion sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, 1:30-4:00, and on Wednesday evenings beginning at 7:30.

The program concluded with its final lecture on Tuesday, June 10, 1997.

Lecture notes (spring term)

Eric D'Hoker, String Theory
- Lecture 1 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lectures 2, 3, 4 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lectures 5, 6 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 7 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 8 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lectures 9, 10 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lectures 11, 12 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 13 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 14 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 15 [source, DVI, postscript]
Edward Witten, Field Theory (Note takers: Pavel Etingof, Dan Freed, Lisa Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John Morgan, David Morrison)
- Lecture 1, 1/16/97 (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 2, 1/23/97,
  - Part I, (notes by D.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
  - Part II, (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 3, 1/30/97 (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
  - Supplement to Lecture 3, notes unavailable
- Lecture 4, 2/6/97, (notes by D.F.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 5, 2/13/97 (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 6, 2/20/97 (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 7, 2/27/97, (notes by D.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 8, 3/6/97
  - Part I (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
  - Part II, (notes by D.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 9, 3/12/97 (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 10, 3/20/97 (notes by L.J.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 11, 3/26/97, (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 12, 4/10/97, (notes by J.M. and D.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 13, 4/16/97, (notes by J.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 14, 5/1/97
  - Part I (notes by D.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
  - Part II (notes by J.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 15, 5/8/97, (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 16, 5/15/97, (notes by P.E. and D.K.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 17, 5/22/97 (notes by J.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 18, 5/28/97 (notes by J.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 19, 6/9/97 (notes by J.M.) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 20, 6/9/97, notes unavailable
Pierre Deligne, Assorted Notes
- Spinors: tables [source, DVI, postscript]
- Real versus complex [source, DVI, postscript]
David Kazhdan, Quantization of Gauge Theories (notes by R. Bezrukavnikov)
- Lecture 1 [source, DVI, postscript]
Rob Kusner, Mapping Class Group Action on Spin Structures [source, DVI, postscript]
Dan Freed, Actions and Reality [source, DVI, postscript]
Cumrun Vafa,
- N=2 Theories in Two Dimensions (3 lectures), notes unavailable
- Introduction to D-branes (1 lecture), notes unavailable
Andrew Strominger, Kaluza-Klein Compactifications, Supersymmetry, and Calabi-Yau Spaces (notes by J. Morgan)
- Lecture 1 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Lecture 2 [source, DVI, postscript]
Nathan Seiberg, The Dynamics of N=1 SUSY Theories (3 lectures)
- Lecture Notes (notes by S. Wu) [source, DVI, postscript]
- Problem Sets [source, DVI, postscript]
- Solutions to Exercises (by Siye Wu) [source, DVI, postscript]

Reading assignments

from E. Witten:
- February 7 (lectures 4 and 5)
- February 25 (lectures 7 and 8)
- March 17 (lecture 10) corrected on 9/28/98
- April 7 (lecture 12)
- April 14 (lectures 13, 14, 15)
- May 20 (lectures 17 and 18)
from N. Seiberg:
- May 8; the assignment consists of hep-th/9509066 and hep-th/9702094

String theory problem sets (E. D'Hoker)

Problem Set #1, 1/23/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #2, 1/30/97 [source, DVI, postscript] (revised 2/3/97)
- Solutions to problem sets #1 and #2, by A. Braverman and D. Gaitsgory [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #3, 2/6/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #4, 2/13/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #5, 2/20/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #6, 3/6/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #7, 3/13/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #8, 3/20/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #9, 3/27/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #10, 4/10/97 [source, DVI, postscript]

Notes on 2D Conformal Field Theory and String Theory (D. Gaitsgory)

These are notes in lieu of solutions of D'Hoker's problem sets: see math.AG/9811061

Field theory problem sets (E. Witten)

Problem Set #1, 1/23/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Solutions to problems 1 and 2, by D. Freed [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #2, 1/30/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #3, 2/6/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #4, 2/13/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Solution to problem 1, by D. Freed [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #5, 2/20/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Superhomework, 2/27/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
- Supersolutions, by P. Deligne and D.S. Freed (a text on classical supersymmetry inspired by the superhomework). See hep-th/9901094
Addendum to Superhomework, 4/8/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #6, 4/10/97 [source, DVI, postscript]
Problem Set #7, 5/9/97 [source, DVI, postscript]

Problem sets from N. Seiberg (see above)

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