Venue: Feynman Lecture Hall
Class Timings: Mondays ,Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
First Meeting: 5 January 2026 (Monday)
Course Description:
This is an introductory quantum field theory (QFT) course. The course will try and also cater to students who have had some previous exposure to the object. So the course will start with the basics of QFT but also seek to cover some advanced material.
Syllabus:
The need for fields; Canonical quantization of fields; Particles;
Perturbation theory; Feynman diagrams; Properties of the S matrix;
Renormalization; Functional Methods; Gauge theories; if time permits, we
will discuss New methods for scattering amplitudes
Textbooks:
1) Introduction to quantum field theory, Peskin and Schroeder
2) Quantum Theory of Fields vol I and vol II, Weinberg
3) Notes from Sidney Coleman's Physics 253a, https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.501
References : The Quantum theory of fields Vol I : Foundations by Steven Weinberg and additional textbooks and notes will be provided during the lectures.
- Teacher: Loganayagam R