General prerequisites:
Quantum Field Theory (MT)
Course term: Trinity
Course weight: 1
Course overview:
16 lectures.
Areas: PT, CMT
Please submit your homework for Conformal Field Theory via the 'assignments' tab.
Lecturer(s):
Dr Heeyeon Kim
Wolfger Peelaers
Assessment Type:
No formal assessment; homework completion
Course synopsis:
1. RG flow, scale and conformal invariance
2. Conformal invariance in d-dimensions
3. Conformal invariance in 2-dimensions
4. The operator formalism and radial quantization
5. Virasoro algebra
6. Minimal model
7. Modular invariance
8. Conformal bootstrap