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Effective Field Theory
- 16 Sequences
- Advanced Level
- Starts on June 5, 2014
- Ends on June 19, 2020
Course details
Syllabus
- To Identify degrees of freedom and symmetries
- To Formulate power counting expansions (both dimensional and non-dimensional)
- Field redefinitions
- Bottom-up and top-down effective theories
- Fine-tuned effective theories
- Matching and Wilson coefficients
- Reparameterization invariance
- Various examples of advanced renormalization group techniques
Prerequisite
A graduate level course in Quantum Field Theory.
Instructors
Saif Rayyan
Lecturer, Physics
MIT
Iain Stewart
Professor of Physics
MIT
Daniel Kolodrubetz
Evangelos Sfakianakis
Fortner Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois
Aditya Pathak
PhD candidate
MIT
Gherardo Vita
Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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