PHY2406H Special Topic: String Theory

Final Exam

Our final exam was on Wednesday May 3rd from 2-5PM in room MP 1115.

Presentations were excellent and are kindly shared by their authors here in order to help others learn:

Peter: Electric and Magnetic Fields on D-branes [1.6MB PDF] (Zwiebach Chapter 19) and
movie String in Electric Field [1.5MB MPEG]
Garry: Non-Linear and Born-Infeld Electrodynamics [0.55MB PDF] (Zwiebach Chapter 20)
Jason: Standard Model from Intersecting D-branes [6.4MB PDF] (Zwiebach Chapter 15)
Callum: Calabi-Yau compactification and N=2 d=4 theories [0.83MB PDF]

Homeworks

Each problem set will contain only 1-2 problems.

HW posted	HW due	Problems
Jan 27	Feb 03	Z3.9,Z7.4
Feb 24	Mar 03	Z8.3,Z9.3
Mar 08	Mar 15	HW3
Mar 22	Mar 29	HW4
Apr 05	Apr 12	HW5

Grading Scheme

After discussion with students on January 11th, the grading instruments for this course will be:

Oral presentation (~30 minutes), on a topic of interest to you, as the final exam;
Five small homework assignments every two weeks, graded by the Prof.

The final grade will be a "flip-flop" algorithm with a greater weighting on your better grade. Specifically: let the final exam grade be "E" and the homework average grade "H"; then the course grade "G" is: G=0.6*max(E,H)+0.4*min(E,H).

I am a fair marker, I reward excellence, and I work hard to be maximally ethical in the way I teach.

Note: Students must attend classes in order to pass the course. It will not be possible to "take the course electronically" by simply reading the digitised lecture notes... :-)

awpeet (2006)