School of Mathematics and Statistics Te Kura Mātai Tatauranga

Aotearoa Fundamental Physics Summer School

Venue

The summer school will be held in the Alan MacDiarmid building, room AM106.

School Program

Time Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
9:15am-9:30am Start  
9:30am-10:30am Mark Srednicki Mark Srednicki Mark Srednicki Mark Srednicki Mark Srednicki
10:30am-11am Morning Tea
11am-12pm Mark Srednicki Mark Srednicki Mark Srednicki Mark Srednicki Matt Visser
12pm-1pm Mark Srednicki Matt Visser Michele Governale Matt Visser Uli Zülicke
1pm-2:30pm Lunch Break
2:30pm-3:30pm Matt Visser Uli Zülicke Michele Governale Michele Governale Uli Zülicke
3:30pm-4pm Afternoon Tea
4pm-5pm Tutorials Closing Remarks and Tutorial
Evening Socializing     Dinner  

Morning and afternoon tea (and coffee...) will be provided. There are several places on campus where lunch can be bought.

Lecturers

  • Mark Srednicki:
    1. The big ideas
    2. Quantization of a Lorentz-invariant scalar field
    3. Scattering amplitudes
    4. Path integrals
    5. Feynman diagrams
    6. Fermions and the Dirac field
    7. Photons and the EM field
    8. Loop corrections and renormalization
    9. Running couplings and effective field theory
    10. Outlook
  • Matt Visser:
    1. Elementary introduction to zero-point-energy
    2. Lorentz invariance and finiteness of the zero-point stress-energy tensor
    3. Casimir energy: Why is it so often finite?
    4. Sakharov-style induced gravity
  • Michele Governale:
    • TBA
  • Uli Zülicke:
    • TBA
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
Lecture1-ZPE.pdfpdf Lecture1-ZPE.pdf manage 208 K 12 Dec 2016 - 17:39 Main.sschuster Matt Visser's First Lecture Slides
Lecture2-Lorentz-invariance-and-Lambda.pdfpdf Lecture2-Lorentz-invariance-and-Lambda.pdf manage 671 K 14 Dec 2016 - 19:35 Main.sschuster  
Lecture3-Casimir-energies.pdfpdf Lecture3-Casimir-energies.pdf manage 226 K 15 Dec 2016 - 12:42 Main.sschuster  
Lecture4-Sakharov-induced-gravity.pdfpdf Lecture4-Sakharov-induced-gravity.pdf manage 247 K 16 Dec 2016 - 13:00 Main.sschuster  
QFT-NZ-10.pdfpdf QFT-NZ-10.pdf manage 6 MB 16 Dec 2016 - 12:57 Main.sschuster  
QFT-NZ-123.pdfpdf QFT-NZ-123.pdf manage 20 MB 13 Dec 2016 - 09:32 Main.sschuster  
QFT-NZ-45.pdfpdf QFT-NZ-45.pdf manage 24 MB 14 Dec 2016 - 19:33 Main.sschuster  
QFT-NZ-67.pdfpdf QFT-NZ-67.pdf manage 18 MB 14 Dec 2016 - 19:40 Main.sschuster  
QFT-NZ-89.pdfpdf QFT-NZ-89.pdf manage 15 MB 15 Dec 2016 - 11:44 Main.sschuster  
UZ-QFT-Lecture-1.pdfpdf UZ-QFT-Lecture-1.pdf manage 2 MB 14 Dec 2016 - 19:36 Main.sschuster  
UZ-QFT-Lecture-2.pdfpdf UZ-QFT-Lecture-2.pdf manage 1 MB 16 Dec 2016 - 18:18 Main.sschuster  
UZ-QFT-Lecture-3.pdfpdf UZ-QFT-Lecture-3.pdf manage 1 MB 16 Dec 2016 - 18:19 Main.sschuster  
kt.pdfpdf kt.pdf manage 1 MB 15 Dec 2016 - 14:36 Main.sschuster  
topological-field-theories-MG.pdfpdf topological-field-theories-MG.pdf manage 568 K 19 Dec 2016 - 16:44 Main.sschuster  
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