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The QFT exam is now graded. 

The GR exam is now graded. Out of the 50 available points, 12 were needed for a pass and 37 to get an 'A'. The final results are available here, including a breakdown of points achieved per problem. As announced earlier there are detailed solutions along with grading instructions. 

Please note that significant time and effort has gone into grading and providing the example solutions at this level of detail. So if there is anything you wonder, and that is not answered by the solutions, do by all means contact us! (In particular before considering 'official' appeals, not the least because this can in fact lead to a worsening of the grade)

Thanks to everyone for actively contributing to the course!

As mentioned last time, there is no problem sheet for our final exercise session tomorrow. We will start at 10:15 in K. Birkelands auditorium and review the topics of the last couple of lectures and exercise sets, highlighting some tips and tricks. As usual there will be a Q&A part, a great chance to ask any remaining questions (also about other parts of the course)!

The final exam (on December 9) will in principle cover everything that we touched in the lecture and exercises. You will be allowed to bring 2 pages (double-sided) of own notes with you (but no other tools). I strongly advice to start preparing and organizing these notes early, and with special care and attention, because this will significantly support the learning and understanding process of the rather involved concepts introduced in this course. Hand-written notes are much more useful in this respect and hence preferred.

We will have our last ordinary lecture on Thursday.

Next Monday (Nov 18) there will instead be a general Q&A session about the whole course content. The more questions you prepare for that, the more you will get out of this (even if the exam is still a few weeks away, this is an excellent preparation!).

I just woke up with a bad cold and won't be able to talk (let alone lecture) today. 

However, there is too much material left to simply cancel this lecture. The plan for today was to derive the vertex rules for gauge-boson self-interactions. This is basically an application of what we learned before, so I simply copied my lecture notes for you to have a detailed look instead.

Ideally, you'd just use the time of the lecture to go through this; if you do it in class, furthermore, you have the advantage of being able to discuss together. As usual, the book provides useful complementary information. Also, feel encouraged to open a PIAZZA thread about these 3- and 4-vertices; most likely I'll be able to react (almost) in real time during the lecture time... 

As we discussed during today's exercise session, to give you some more preparation time the next session (originally planned for tomorrow) will be moved to Monday 4/11. I have booked the room 'Undervisningsrom ?397' from 9:15 to 12:00. We will discuss problem sheet 10. Hope to see you there!

There will be no lecture or exercises tomorrow (1/11).

This week (starting October 21) there will be THREE lectures. Next week, there will instead be TWO exercises (Thursday and Friday). The exercise sheet and the previous note concerning dates of group exercises have been updated correspondingly.

In week 45, there will be NEITHER lecture nor exercise on Monday (November 4), and lectures on Thursday and Friday....

I just added a (shorter) new problem sheet for the discussion session on Monday, now that the discussion sessions have been extended from 2hrs to 3hrs.

Hi everyone! Just a quick note to clarify the program for the upcoming two exercise sessions.
On Friday 20/9 (10:15-12:00, Kristian Birkelands Auditorium) we'll finish up the discussion of Problem 9 about propagators. We'll also start tackling Problem Set 4, as far as we get.
On Monday 23/9 (09:15-12:00, Kjemi Auditorium 3) we'll continue where we left off. Since we got an extra hour (woohoo!), we will also discuss some new exercises (working out a few things that the book leaves up to the reader). I realize there isn't much time to prepare them in detail, but try to have a look at them so you at least understand the question and have a good idea for how to get started.

As the lectures will have covered the quantization of the Dirac field by then, it's a great opportunity to reflect on the course content of the past few weeks and read up in the book. It is impossible that this doesn't raise a sing...

As announced the schedule for the exercise sessions is a bit irregular. Group exercises will be hold on the following days (the other days are lectures):

1. August 23 (Friday)
2. September 2 (Monday)
3. September 13 (Friday)
4. September 20 (Friday)
5. September 23 (Monday)
6. September 30 (Monday)
7. October 7 (Monday)
8. October 18 (Friday)
9. October 31 (THURSDAY)
10. November 1 (Friday)
11. November 15 (Friday)
12. November 22 (Friday)

The problem sets will be made available on the course homepage about one week before the respective exercise session. 

The online forum is now set up, and most of you should have received an invitation. If you haven't, please send an email to Jeriek.

And most importantly: start using PIAZZA as actively as possible right away! The goal is one question or answer by everyone, per week. :)

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