This is a reading seminar on Quantum Field Theory (QFT) for mathematicians and physicists in the Bonn area,

who have a basic knowledge of mathematical physics but a strong desire to learn more.


I. Basics of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics

⋅  Nov 19 - Tancredi Schettini-Gherardini

     Dirac's formalism

⋅  Nov 26 - Quincy Frias

     Unitary group and Stone's theorem

⋅  Dec 03 - Kyungmin Rho

     The harmonic oscillator


II. The Lorentz Group and the Poincaré Group

⋅  Dec 10

     Unitary representations

⋅  Dec 17

     A fundamental representation of the Poincaré group


III. Non-relativistic Quantum Fields

⋅  Jan 07

     Boson Fock space

⋅  Jan 14

     Quantum fields: Quantizing spaces of functions


IV. The Massive Scalar Free Field

⋅  Jan 21

     Lorentz invariant formulas


V. Quantization

⋅  Jan 28

     The Klein-Gordon Equation

⋅  Feb 04

     Quantization through the Hamiltonian


VI. The Casimir Effect

⋅  Feb 11

     Vacuum energy and regularization