Graduate School Mini Course Series: Introduction to Supersymmetric QFT

Supersymmetry is a remarkable invariance property of physical theories which extends the usual notion of a symmetry algebra to allow for the inclusion of fermionic generators. Field theories with supersymmetry exhibit many physically relevant phenomena such as quark confinement, dynamical symmetry breaking and non-perturbative dualities in a setting where they can be studied precisely using analytic methods. Supersymmetric QFTs have also played a key role in the development of the AdS/CFT correspondence, for which they provide the best understood examples. In this course, I will give an overview of these developments emphasizing those things which we can calculate exactly.

The instructor, Nick Dorey has been Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge since 2007.  He is currently visiting OIST as a TSVP Fellow. 

The course will run from April 18-June 27 on Thursdays at 10:00-11:30 in L5EF11.  The first session on April 18 has been rescheduled to 9:00-10:30.  

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