senior research fellow
theoretical physics group
institute of mathematical sciences
The material discussed will roughly revolve around material presented in Polchinski: bosonic strings, conformal field theory, loop amplitudes, D\( p \)-branes etc.
Each meeting will go on for an hour and a half. We meet (almost) every Thursday at 6:00 PM in Hall 123.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 25rd April | M | The String \( S \)-Matrix and Tree-Level Scattering Amplitudes |
| 16th April | Pinaki Banerjee and Dr. Alok Laddha | Vertex Operators II |
| 9th April | Debangshu Mukherjee and Dr. Alok Laddha | Complaints, Grievances and The No Ghost Theorem |
| 30th March | Debangshu Mukherjee | BRST Quantization Bosonic Strings |
| 19th March | Debangshu Mukherjee | Old Covariant Quantization of Bosonic Strings |
| 12th March | Arnab Priya Saha and M | Vertex Operators I and Scattering Amplitudes I |
| 5th March | Dr. Alok Laddha | Boundary Terms in Bosonic String Actions |
| 26th February | Arnab Priya Saha | The Weyl Anomaly |
| 21th February | Dr. Alok Laddha | BV I: An Introduction to The Batalin–Vilkovisky Formalism |
| 12th February | M | The State-Operator Correspondence, Polyakov's Action and Faddeev-Popov Determinants |
| 7th February | Dheeraj Mishra | CFT II: Review and Discussion |
| 29th January | Renjan John | CFT I: Operator Product Expansions, Ward Identities and the Virasoro Algebra | 22nd January | Pinaki Banerjee | Closed and Unoriented Strings |
| 14th January | Nirmalya Kajuri | Action Principles and Open String Spectra |