Introduction to Strings and Branes

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Course ID:	1102-5`InSB
Erasmus code / ISCED:	13.205 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0533) Physics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Introduction to Strings and Branes
Name in Polish:	Introduction to Strings and Branes
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Physics
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty do wyboru dla doktorantów; (in Polish) Przedmioty obieralne na studiach drugiego stopnia na kierunku bioinformatyka Courses in English Physics (2nd level); elective courses Physics, 2nd level; Theoretical Physics
Course homepage:	http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pawelc/home.html
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Prerequisites (description):	Full physics course of the 1-st degree.
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The course is an introduction to the theory of strings/superstrings and their interactions. It will be focused on perturbative and non-perturbative spectrum of string theory. It is aimed at students interested at particle physics and unification.
Full description:	1. Introduction: strings and unification of fundamental interactions 2. Classical theory of free strings 3. Canonical quantization of strings: conformal symmetry, spectrum, states of D-branes. 4. Interaction of strings: string diagrams, effective field theory, Einstein theory, Yang-Mills theory. 5. D-branes: brane excitations, effective field theory description, DBI action 6. Multi-brane states, non-abelian gauge theory of branes. Purpose of the lecture: String theory is considered as the most promising candidate for theory which unifies electromagnetic, weak, strong and grawitational interactions. The purpose of the lecture is to describe the perturbative and non-perturbative spectrum of the theory and to introduce interactions between these states. Prerequisites: Classical Mechanics, Quantum mechanics I and II.
Bibliography:	- M.Green, J.Schwarz, E.Witten, Superstring Theory. - J.Polchinski, String Theory. - B.Zweibach, A First Course in String Theory
Learning outcomes:	After the lecture students should have basics knowledge of string theory and its relation to particle physics. Students should also understand basic notions of modern superstring theory such as: branes, vertex operators, NS sector, R sector.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The course will end by oral exam. Understanding of basic concepts as well as basic calculational method of string theory will be examined.

This course is not currently offered.

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