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The exams have now been graded, and the final results are available. I have also updated the solutions to include further grading details.
Thanks everyone to contributing to this course!
As announced earlier, there will be a student seminar next week, on Tuesday 1:00 am (same lecture hall as usual):
Jan Gulla: Symmetries in the Functional Formalism
Please note that this is part of the course, and extends what we have learned in the lecture. So even if we are already past the exam (everyone has passed!), it would be great if as many as possible of you could attend -- if only to make the presentation a more pleasant experience for Jan (it's no fun to teach for an audience of 3 people...).
I just realized that the hint given for the very last problem was a bad one -- this is now updated...
After the final exam, there will be a student seminar on a topic that extends what we have learned so far in this course. To help fix the date, please indicate your availability:
https://doodle.com/poll/nsbhmtkdgmerpugx
Please understand that it is much nicer to give this seminar if there are not only 2-3 people listening. So I hope that as many of you as possible can join!
Unless the vote changes significantly, there will be a Q&A session on Friday at 2.30pm.
I will also make 2-3 example solutions of old (midterm) exams fully available -- depending on which ones you are most interested to see. Please check the poll on PIAZZA (I will close it on Wednesday evening, such that you have a chance to take a closer look at the respective exams before the Q&A session).
The results of the midterm exam are now available here. Please make sure to compare the solutions to your answers. This does not only help to improve your understanding, but is also a good preparation for the final exam.
As you only have three days before it will be discussed, the new exercise sheet is shorter (and there is likely to be more time for general questions in the exercise session on Friday). Still, it is important to get started with these kinds of calculations as we will use the functional formalism for the rest of this course.
This week there are no exercises because next Friday there will be a Q&A session instead of the standard group exercises. So the task for this week is: start preparing for the home exam by repeating what we have learned so far in the course, and prepare questions for the Q&A session ( = anything that you can come up with, but the primary focus will be one those questions directly relevant for the exam).
As already stressed during the lecture, this course will be accompanied by an online tutorial / Q&A forum: PIAZZA is a great tool, and the more of you that actively use it, the larger will be the benefit for everyone. Explore the link above, or take a look at the quick start guide that Anastasia compiled (thanks!). Please send her an email if you have not received a PIAZZA invitation email yet!
Next week is an ideal opportunity to read up on what we did, and reflect about classical field theory and Lorentz transformations. The best way to do this is by discussing -- for which I hope many of you will use PIAZZA as extensively as possible!
Note that problem set 2 is now online. It will be discussed in two weeks during the exercise session. These problems are very useful to reflect about what you have learned about classical field theory (and Lorentz transformations) this week.
Typically, lectures in FYS4170 will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays (12-14), while the group exercises will take place on Fridays (10-12).
This week (week 34),
- The lecture on Thursday will start a bit earlier (12:00 sharp), and finish shortly after 1pm
- There will be a lecture on Friday (from 10-12)
- There will be an extraordinary problem session on Friday, 13-15. This will (likewise extraordinarily) take place in ?279. The problem set to be discussed is now online.
Note that next week (Aug 27 to 31) there will be no lectures nor exercises. Do use the time to read up on everything you may not feel fully comfortable with about my summary of r...
A tentative plan for this first course in relativistic quantum field theory (FYS4170) can now be found on the semester pages of the course, including reading suggestions.
Most importantly: please take ASAP a close look at what you should remember from previous courses! From experience, this is essentially mandatory if you want to avoid a rather tough start...
Welcome! :)
Torsten Bringmann