Category Archives: Announcements

Hi everyone, Just a reminder about our upcoming final project presentations, taking place in MP1115 from 1-5:30pm on Thursday 24th April this upcoming week. Students have asked what presentation formats are acceptable. Any of the following canonical formats is fine: … Continue reading →

In amongst all the gravitas of the end of the semester, here’s a bit of levity… From the inimitable Bob Park (http://bobpark.org/) we see a spirited defence of the LHC in the face of a mighty stupid lawsuit from some … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, Today we agreed that our class final exam will be held 1-5pm on Thursday 24th April. Each student will have a 30-minute envelope: 25 minute speech and 5 minutes Q&A. We will have four talks, a short break, … Continue reading →

The final presentations will take place from 1pm until approximately 5:30pm on Thursday 24th April in MP1115 (our usual room). Final project presentations Jean-Michel: Electromagnetic fields on D-branes Simon: Born-Infeld electrodynamics Alex: The Standard Model on intersecting D-branes Alexey: E8xE8 … Continue reading →

We will have an extra (replacement) lecture on Monday, March 31st, at 2pm Location TBA.

Hi everyone, Suddenly I realized that 21.Mar is a holiday … it’s Good Friday in the Christian calendar (which we apparently celebrate as a country and as a university). I’d like to reschedule the missing hour. Please expect an email … Continue reading →

20080227 (W): Building the superstring state space in light-front gauge. Closed superstrings. Open superstrings. Neveu-Schwarz (NS) and Ramond (R) sectors. Dilaton, Kalb-Ramond field. [Z.Ch.13] 20080229 (F): The gamma matrix algebra and Spinors in diverse dimensions D. The Fock space representation. … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, I believe there has been sufficient time since the first day of class for everyone to get hold of a copy of the Zwiebach textbook by now. I will therefore be assuming, from now on, that everyone does … Continue reading →