Introduction to String Theory, Spring 2024

Lecture 1 Introduction, Bosonic String

Lecture 2 2d Conformal Field Theory

Lecture 3 2d Conformal Field Theory, Weyl Anomaly

Lecture 4 Non-linear Sigma Model, Faddeev–Popov Gauge Fixing

Lecture 5 BRST Quantization

Lecture 6 Bosonic String Amplitudes

Lecture 7 RNS Formalism, Fermionic Torus Partition Functions

Lecture 8 Type II, D-branes

Lecture 9 T-duality

Lecture 10 Type I, Orientifolds

Lecture 11 Toroidal Compactification, Heterotic String

Lecture 12 String Dualities, M-theory

Lecture 13 Heterotic M-theory, Anomaly

Lecture 14 Green–Schwarz Anomaly Cancellation, D-brane Dynamics

Lecture 15 D-brane Dynamics and Strominger–Vafa Computation

Lecture 16 AdS/CFT