Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA)
Needles Hall, second floor, room 2201
Subject:
Physics (PHYS)
Catalog number:
623
Unit weight:
0.25
Meet type:
SEM
Grading basis:
CNC
Cross-listing(s):
N/A
Requisites:
Department Consent Required
Description:
Superstring spectrum in 10d Minkowski, as well as simple toroidal and orbifold compactifications. T-duality, D-branes, tree amplitudes. Construct some simple unified models of particle physics. Motivate the 10- and 11-dimensional supergravities. Simple supergravity solutions and use these to explore some aspects of AdS/CFT duality.
Topic titles:
N/A
Faculty:
Science (SCI)
Academic level:
GRD
Course ID:
013285