8.325  Rel Quantum Field Theory III

Presentations tomorrow

Hi,
for those of you planning to give optional presentations tomorrow (or to see
others' presentations), please come to the small seminar room in CTP 6-310 at
10:30-12 and then 1--?? as needed.
Please also email me to confirm you are presenting so I can keep track of time
appropriately

-Will

PS:Thanks for all your questions and hard work throughout the semester!

Announced on 16 May 2016  3:27  p.m. by William Detmold

PSet 11 again!

Dear class,

I neglected to read the rules for end of semester carefully enough again and have
broken them by suggesting that you can hand in the final PSet on Tuesday. The official
due date is still today, but a blanket extension into next week is not allowed. Se
http://web.mit.edu/faculty/teaching/termend.html#WithoutFinal
The last day that it is possible to hand the assignment in is therefore
this Thursday, May 12th. Sorry for this revision, but it is required by
the regulations.

-Will

PS: also, the factor of a^2 on the second term in the action should not be there.

Announced on 10 May 2016  10:32  p.m. by William Detmold

PSet 11

Dear Class,

I have revised PSet 11 since the first part was very confusing. As a number of you realised, there is only a single even parity dimension-6 operator invariant under SO(4) rotations. However on a space-time lattice there is a reduced set of symmetries and two additional structures are allowed - you do _not_ need to find these.

I added a hint that vastly reduces the computations needed - you might also find it useful to use a symbolic manipulation program like mathematica.

Please hand in this final PSet before the optional presentation session next Tuesday.

-Will

Announced on 09 May 2016  11:43  p.m. by William Detmold

PSet 11 posted, presentations

Dear Class,

the physics course coordinator has pointed out to me that I am not allowed to require presentations in exam week even for graduate students and can only have one assignment/presentation due in between May 6th and the last dat of class (May 12th).
I mistakenly thought this rule was for u/grad classes only.
For this reason, the class presentations are entirely optional even for graduate students
and will not count toward your grade which I will compute after the last PSet is turned in and graded.

For those of you who would like to continue preparing your presentations, they are good practice for your Part 3 oral exam and I am more than happy to listen to them as planned. However as noted above, this is completely optional.

-Will

PS: I have posted the final PSet.

Announced on 03 May 2016  10:42  p.m. by William Detmold

PSet 10 posted

Hi All,
PSet 10 has just been posted,
Will

Announced on 26 April 2016  11:29  p.m. by William Detmold