Introduction to 2d conformal field theory, Fall 2018

Lecture 1 Introduction, conformal transformation

Lecture 2 Ward–Takahashi identity, primary fields

Lecture 3 Free boson, Virasoro algebra

Lecture 4 Free boson continued, free fermion

Lecture 5 Torus partition functions

Lecture 6 Minimal model

Lecture 7 Minimal model continued

Lecture 8 RG flow and Zamolodchikov c-theorem

Lecture 9 WZW model

Lecture 10 WZW model continued

Lecture 11 Modular invariant partition functions (taught by Daisuke Yokoyama)

Lecture 12 Entanglement entropy (taught by Jirui Guo)

Lecture 13 Holography

Lecture 14 Ryu–Takayanagi formula