Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Reductionism
Basic principles of particle physics
Grand goal of high energy particle physics
Understand quantum field theory
Deep into perturbation theory
The strong coupling frontier
Confinement
Scaling symmetries
Bootstrap ideas
The conformal bootstrap
The amplitude bootstrap
Supersymmetric field theories
Dualities in quantum field theory
Inflationary primordial fluctuations
Beyond quantum field theory
Why do we care about quantum gravity?
The black hole information problem
Why is the black hole singularity important?
Gravitational holography
The importance of diversity of approaches
New topologies
Taught by
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics