Recent Courses Related to the Research of the Group:

       Fall 2008

• Physics 821 - General Relativity
• Instructor: Sorbo
• Course Details:Mathematical and conceptual aspects of the special and general theories of relativity. Lorentz Tansformations, covariant formulation of the laws of nature. The equivalence principle, curved spaces, solutions of the equations of relativity.

• Physics 714 - Introductory High Energy Physics
• Instructor: Kawall
• Course Details: Introduction to physics of elementary particles; treating the development of the field, the particle spectrum, symmetries, quarks, experimental methods, an introduction to theories of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interaction, and recent developments.

       Spring 2008

• Physics 724 - Group Theory In Quantum Mechanics
• Instructor: Golowich
• Course Details:Finite dimensional groups and their representations; representations of the permutation group; representations of SU(n), tensor representations, decomposition of direct product representations; three-dimensional rotation group. Clebsch-Gordon and Racah coefficients; the Lorentz group and its representations, applications to atomic, solid state, nuclear and high energy physics.

       Fall 2007

• Physics 821 - General Relativity
• Instructor: Sorbo
• Course Details:Mathematical and conceptual aspects of the special and general theories of relativity. Lorentz Tansformations, covariant formulation of the laws of nature. The equivalence principle, curved spaces, solutions of the equations of relativity.

• Physics 813 - High Energy Physics (Standard model)
• Instructor: Donoghue
• Course Details: Advanced study of particle physics. Topics vary with instructor; may include the theory of weak interactions, deep inelastic scattering, phenomenology of the strong and weak interactions, quantum chromodynamics, gauge theory, attempts at unification, and recent developments.

       Fall 2006

• Physics 821 - General Relativity
• Instructor: Sorbo
• Course Details:Mathematical and conceptual aspects of the special and general theories of relativity. Lorentz Tansformations, covariant formulation of the laws of nature. The equivalence principle, curved spaces, solutions of the equations of relativity.

• Physics 714 - Introductory High Energy Physics
• Instructor: Kumar
• Course Details: Introduction to physics of elementary particles; treating the development of the field, the particle spectrum, symmetries, quarks, experimental methods, an introduction to theories of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interaction, and recent developments.

       Spring 2006

• Physics 890 - Advanced Theoretical Physics
• Instructor: Holstein
• Course Details: Physics 890A will consist of a discussion of topics in theoretical physics, including chiral perturbation theory, effective field theory, superconductivity, quantum gravity, etc. Students are expected to be facile with quantum field theory and covariant perturbation theory and will be expected to work out a number of exercises in each topic. Some of the discussion will take place at the level of modern research.

       Fall 2005

• Physics 714 - Introductory High Energy Physics
• Instructor: Kumar
• Course Details: Introduction to physics of elementary particles; treating the development of the field, the particle spectrum, symmetries, quarks, experimental methods, an introduction to theories of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interaction, and recent developments.

• Physics 852 - Special Topics In High Energy Physics - Cosmology
• Instructor: Sorbo

       Spring 2005

• Physics 811 - Field Theory I
• Instructor: Holstein
• Course Details: Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, formal scattering theory, field quantization, interacting fields, S-matrix, reduction formulae, perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams, renormalization, path integrals, and recent developments.

       Fall 2004

• Physics 714 - Introductory High Energy Physics
• Instructor: Kumar
• Course Details: Introduction to physics of elementary particles; treating the development of the field, the particle spectrum, symmetries, quarks, experimental methods, an introduction to theories of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interaction, and recent developments.

• Physics 821 - General Relativity
• Instructor: Kastor
• Course Details: Mathematical and conceptual aspects of the special and general theories of relativity. Lorentz Tansformations, covariant formulation of the laws of nature. The equivalence principle, curved spaces, solutions of the equations of relativity.

       Fall 2003

• Physics 714 - Introductory High Energy Physics
• Instructor: Blaylock
• Course Details: Introduction to physics of elementary particles; treating the development of the field, the particle spectrum, symmetries, quarks, experimental methods, an introduction to theories of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interaction, and recent developments.

• Physics 724 - Group Theory In Quantum Mechanics
• Instructor: Golowich
• Course Details: Finite dimensional groups and their representations; representations of the permutation group; representations of SU(n), tensor representations, decomposition of direct product representations; three-dimensional rotation group. Clebsch-Gordon and Racah coefficients; the Lorentz group and its representations, applications to atomic, solid state, nuclear and high energy physics.

• Physics 850 - Advanced Topics: High Enery Theory (String Theory)
• Instructor: Kastor

       Spring 2003

• Physics 813 - High Energy Physics
• Instructor: Willocq
• Course Details: Introduction to physics of elementary particles; treating the development of the field, the particle spectrum, symmetries, quarks, experimental methods, an introduction to theories of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interaction, and recent developments.

       Fall 2002

• Physics 811 - Field Theory I
• Instructor: Golowich
• Course Details: Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, formal scattering theory, field quantization, interacting fields, S-matrix, reduction formulae, perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams, renormalization, path integrals, and recent developments.

• Physics 821 - General Relativity
• Instructor: Traschen
• Course Details: Mathematical and conceptual aspects of the special and general theories of relativity. Lorentz Tansformations, covariant formulation of the laws of nature. The equivalence principle, curved spaces, solutions of the equations of relativity.