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.


⋅  Nov 19 - Tancredi Schettini Gherardini

     Dirac's formalism (notes)

⋅  Nov 26 - Quincy Frias

     Unitary group and Stone's theorem

⋅  Dec 03 - Kyungmin Rho

     Functional calculus, spectral theorems, and Stone's theorem (notes)

⋅  Dec 10 - Michael Merkle

     Lorentz transformations and the mass shell

⋅  Dec 17 - Quincy Frias

     Fundamental representation of the Poincaré group on the mass shell, and an overview of quantum theory

⋅  Jan 14 - Kyungmin Rho

     Quantum harmonic oscillators (notes)

⋅  Jan 21, 28 - No Seminar

⋅  Feb 04 - Quincy Frias

     Spinor representations

⋅  Feb 11 - Tancredi Schettini Gherardini

     Path integrals

⋅  Feb 18