Rutgers University

Department of Physics

Physics 695, Topics in Mathematical Physics  Fall 2013,  Gregory Moore

 

The material covered in this course will depend very much on who shows up. My primary plan is to continue with part 2 of the ``Applied Group Theory'' course I taught in Spring 2013. That would be a course on group theory primarily intended for physics graduate students intending to specialize in condensed matter or particle theory. It will also have material of interest to mathematics students with some interest in mathematical physics. In Spring 2013 we covered Sections 3.1,3.2, and part of 3.4 of the general outline. Interested students can ask me for copies of the lecture notes and/or DVD's of the spring lectures. A detailed  description of the plan of the "Applied Group Theory" course can be found here.

 

However, if only advanced graduate students show up, then I will propose a list of topics in Advanced Mathematical Physics: Possible topics would include Applications of automorphic forms to string theory; Topological field theory and manifold invariants; Physics and mathematics of N=2 supersymmetry; Applications of K-theory; Self-dual theories. A list of potential topics can be found here

The course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30am - 12pm. The first class will be on Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at 10:30am in Serin East 385.