This is the homepage for the Hilary term 2025 part of the C6 option.

Lectures will be in-person according to the standard C6 schedule , all in the DWB lecture theatre. Tutorial classes are in weeks 4,6,8.

Topics to be covered are:
1. Classical field theory 

2. Symmetries of the action. Noether's theorem 

3. Spontaneous symmetry breaking. Goldstone's theorem 

4. Canonical quantization of fields 

5. Interacting quantum fields 

6. Feynman diagrams 

7. Path integrals in quantum field theory 

8. Examples of interacting quantum field theories