PHY 623 - String Theory II

This course is intended for graduate students who have familiarity with guage & quantum field theory. Topics will be selected from: free bosonic & spinning strings and heterotic & Green-Schwarz superstrings; conformal field theory; tree-level and one-loop amplitudes; partition functions; spacetime supersymmetry and supergravity; compactification & duality; winding & Kaluza-Klein modes; 11-dimensional supergravity; branes in supergravity; D-branes in string theory; T-duality; M-theory; complex geometry and Calabi-Yau manifolds; string field theory; other advanced topics if time permits. PHY 610/PHY 611;or equivalent is prerequisite.

1-3 credits

Grading S/U grading

Offered Fall or Spring

Repeatable May be repeated for credit.