13:00-14:45, Thursdays; Kashiwa campus, IPMU, Balcony B.
Broadcasted also to Hongo campus: Building 1, usually in Room 207; Room 206 only on Nov. 28
Lectures will be done practically as a regular course. But from the bureaucratic perspective it is done as an "intensive course (集中講義)". The reason is that each regular course is supposed to be given every year, possibly by different lecturers, and that adding a regular course to the curriculum takes a number of faculty meetings. There are no such bureaucratic restriction on "intensive courses", to the extent that they don't have to be given intensively.
We discuss anomalies and symmetry protected topological phases. It is mostly based on my lectures at TASI earlier this year which was in turn based on my lectures at CERN and Rikkyo in 2018. I'm not sure if I'm going to write up the lecture notes.
For the first several lectures I would just follow my handwritten notes for the lectures at TASI. I'll think about what to talk after I go through all of them.
| Date | Comment |
|---|---|
| September 26 | Generalities; anomalies of fermions. Up to the middle of p.8 |
| October 3 | More on the anomalies of fermions. Up to the end of p.17 |
| October 10 | Green-Schwarz anomalies of p-form fields. Up to the end of p.26 |
| October 17 | Anomalies of finite groups in 0+1 d systems. Up to the end of p.35 |
| October 24 | Anomalies of finite groups in 1+1 d systems. Up to the end of p.43 |
| October 31 | Kramers-Wannier, Jordan-Wigner and Gliozzi-Scherk-Olive. Up to the end of p.54 |
| November 7 | No class since it's treated as a Monday in the university schedule. |
| November 14 | Mod 8 anomaly of 0+1d time-reversal-invariant fermions. The lecture will be interrupted by the emergency evacuation drill and will not be resumed. |
| November 21 | No class since I attend a conference |
| November 28 | No class due to my illness |
| December 5 | SU(2) gauge theory at θ=π. up to p.8 |
| December 12 | The rest of the note above; generalized symmetry in 2d, up to p.3 |
| December 19 | Up to page 10 of the note above |
| December 26 | The rest of the note and more on generalized symmetry in 2d |
| January 2 | No class due to winter break |
| January 9 | Anomaly of the duality, up to p.10. |
| January 16 | Anomaly of the duality, continued. (Note that I corrected a few typos and added a few pages to the pdf.) |
Please ask during and/or after the lectures. You can also email me.
email: yuji.tachikawa_at_****.**