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Here is a list of topics that we'll cover in the course. As the term progresses, these will be correlated with lecture dates, notes, and suggested reading.

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Date	Topic	Notes, etc...	Reading
READING	review of quantum mechanics and the harmonic oscillator		notes on quantum mechanics
Sept 12	The simplest quantum field theory	worksheet solutions
Sept 14	Introducing interactions	worksheet solutions
Sept 19	Actions, Symmetries, and Conservation Laws	notes	notes on actions and conservation laws
Sept 21	Symmetries and Conserved Quantities in Quantum Mechanics	notes (including last class) symmetries and conservation laws in QM
Sept 26	Classifying particles and fields	notes	notes on symmetries, groups, and representations
Sept 28	Building Invariant Actions I: Scalars, Vectors, and Tensors	notes extra: the epsilon tensor	Notes on special relativity
Oct 3	Scalar Field Theory	notes
Oct 5	Time-dependent operators and Corrlelation Functions	notes	David Tong's notes chapters 2.2, 2.4,2.5,2.6,2.7 OR Peskin and Schroeder ch 2.3,2.4 plus Tong chapter 2.5
Oct 12	Vector Fields	notes	notes on quantization
Oct 17,19	General Fields and Representations of the Lorentz Group	notes worksheet	angular momentum in quantum mechanics
Oct 24	Spinor fields	notes	Tong chapter 4 OR Peskin and Schroeder ch 3.1-3.4
Oct 26	Invariants from spinor fields	worksheet notes
Oct 31	Quantizing spinor fields	notes
Nov 2	Quantizing the electromagnetic field	notes	Tong Chapters 6.1-6.2
Nov 7	Interacting field theory: Transition amplitudes	worksheet worksheet solutions	P&S chapters 4.1-4.2 or Tong chapters 3.1-3.3
Nov 9	Tricks for computing amplitudes: Wick's theorem and diagrams	notes notes on diagrams	P&S chapters 4.3-4.4
Nov 14	Relating amplitudes to experiment: decay rates	notes	P&S chapter 4.5-4.6
Nov 16	Relating amplitudes to experiment: scattering cross sections	notes sample calculation
Nov 21	Feynman rules	notes	momentum space propagators PS chapter 4.7-4.8
Nov 23	Particle production and discovery	notes	PS chapter 5
Nov 25	Path integrals	notes on path integrals
Nov 28	More QED processes, higher orders and UV divergences	notes	PS chapter 5
Nov 30	Infrared divergences and Brehmsstrahlung	notes
	A road map of physics 526