週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
2/26 |
Nambu-Goto and Polyakov's action, Introduction to path integrals |
Week 2 |
3/05 |
Interaction of strings, Basics of 2D conformal field theories |
Week 3 |
3/12 |
Weyl anomaly and conditions for the vacua |
Week 4 |
3/19 |
BRST gauge fixing and reparametrization ghosts |
Week 5 |
3/26 |
Amplitudes and spectrum |
Week 6 |
4/02 |
(holiday) |
Week 7 |
4/09 |
Worldsheet supersymmetry. Introduction to spinors, SUSY, supergravity. |
Week 8 |
4/16 |
type IIA / IIB superstring and 10D supergravity |
Week 9 |
4/23 |
(exam week, accept questions at professor's office) |
Week 10 |
4/30 |
Open strings and D-branes |
Week 11 |
5/07 |
One-loop amplitudes, Unoriented strings |
Week 12 |
5/14 |
Compactification and T-duality |
Week 13 |
5/21 |
Tension, Charge and the action for D-branes |
Week 14 |
5/28 |
String dualities |
Week 15 |
6/04 |
Brane dynamics and developments in SUSY gauge theories |
Week 16 |
6/11 |
Black holes in string theory, AdS/CFT correspondence |
Week 17 |
6/18 |
AdS/CFT correspondence (continued) |