CoPS/Nordita Theory Journal Club

This is our CoPS/Nordita Theory Journal Club. By calling it "CoPS/Nordita" we don't mean that only CoPS/Nordita members are allowed to attend.

We prefer if participants have at least read through the papers under discussion (though not necessarily all the background material)

The new time slot is Thu, 11am or 1:30pm, and the place is the CoPS room (A5:1041) We intend to keep it roughly bi-weekly.

Fall 2009: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime

Date Speaker Topic Background material
Oct 8 Marcus Berg IntroductionB. DeWitt's 2003 book: p.755-760 (and before)
Oct 15 Marcus Berg Running electric charge in GravityB. DeWitt's book + Toms, 0908.3100
Oct 29 Rachel Rosen The Vacuum in Curved SpacetimeMukhanov & Winitzki, free beta version
Nov 5 Bo Sundborg Effective Field Theory of GravityBurgess, Donoghue lectures (see below)
Nov 12 Paolo Di Vecchia Komargodski-Seiberg on Goldstinos 0907.2441, Seiberg-Intriligator lectures
Dec 3 Martin Sahlén Running Lambda and Clusters Basilakos et al. 0907.4555
Dec 17 Ingemar Bengtsson Thermalization by gravitational forcesUnruh-Wald, Phys. Rev. D29 1047 (1984) (PDF)
Jan 29 Rachel Rosen Renormalization of stress-energy in curved space Ford's review (see below) and the Birrell-Davies book
Feb 11 Fawad Hassan Quantum corrections in inflationary perturbations Senatore-Zaldarriaga 0912.2734, Burgess et al 0912.1608

References

QFT in curved space lecture notes/overviews:

  • Flanagan (2009) -- to appear
  • Wald (2009)
  • Burgess (2003)
  • Jacobson (2003)
  • Ford (1997)
  • Donoghue (1995)
  • ...

    • Books:

  • L. Parker, D. Toms, "Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity", Cambridge Univ. Pr. (2009) -- to appear
  • F. Bastianelli, P. v. Nieuwenhuizen, "Path Integrals and Anomalies in Curved Space", Cambridge Univ. Pr. (2006) (This book is strictly speaking about quantum mechanics, not quantum field theory.)
  • B.S. DeWitt, "The Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory", Oxford Univ. Pr. (2003)
  • R. M. Wald, "Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetimes and Black Hole Thermodynamics", Chicago Univ. Pr. (1994)
  • N.D. Birrell, P.C.S. Davies, "Quantum Fields in Curved Space", Cambridge Univ. Pr. (1982)
  • V. Mukhanov, S. Winitzki, "Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity", Cambridge Univ. Pr. (2007)
  • ...

    • Papers:

  • Avramidi (2009)
  • Toms (2009)
  • others (propose some!)

    • Old JCs: Spring 2009, Fall 2008

    Contact: Marcus Berg or Fawad Hassan