Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 8.871 (Fall 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Selected Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics: Branes and Gauge Theory Dynamics 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Physics 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Amihay Hanany 
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  8.871 Selected Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics: Branes and Gauge Theory Dynamics
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

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  This course is an introduction to branes in string theory and their world volume dynamics. Instead of looking at the theory from the point of view of the world-sheet observer, we will approach the problem from the point of view of an observer which lives on a brane. Instead of writing down conformal field theory on the world-sheet and studying the properties of these theories, we will look at various branes in string theory and ask how the physics on their world-volume looks like.